9 November 2026
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.
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Sixth album of dreamy indie rock from the Wellington, New Zealand five-piece
7.4
There are some interesting features such as electronic vocal harmonies, dreamy guitar and instrumentals, unexpected timings, clever instrumentation and general electropop-meets-rock magnificence! Read Review
Worldwide success could be in the offing Read Review
Continue to surprise with their unpredictable synthesis of yesteryear genres progressive rock and psychedelic pop with modern day indie accessibility Read Review
Their previous Fleet Foxes-esque melodies are still there, but there’s a miasma of other elements at play Read Review
Electronic overhaul for New Zealand's pop-psych torchbearers. Print edition only
A nice career reboot which doesn't torch everything they've achieved in 15 years together. Print edition only
A fabulous meld of power-pop, electronica and US West Coast harmony Read Review
A joyous rummage through harmony-layered peppy pop Read Review
It’s all rather wonderful nonsense – playful, engaging and not always entirely successful. But come take a trip, and surely you won’t be disappointed Read Review
Psych soundscapes, Afrobeat and squiggly synths make this a funny, infectious record. Print edition only
In choosing to move down a more percussive path, the Phoenix Foundation set themselves a challenge quite different than those they had previously faced Read Review
Most of the songs here are akin to classic pop bangers that have almost gone out of fashion Read Review
The album’s central defeatist theme echoes throughout Read Review
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The Phoenix Foundation: Give Up Your Dreams
Django Django Doveland
Django Django would appear to have refreshed their approach and challenged themselves to try out previously unconsidered melodic avenues The Arts Desk
Print edition only Uncut
Gilla Band Pugnello
Somewhere amidst the anarchy of Pugnello, there are gems waiting to be found. Unearthing them is well worth your time Still Listening
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Existentialism has a sound (and it’s hard to ignore) with Greg Freeman’s introspective All Set The Bone Still Listening
U2 Carnaval de Luz
Carnaval De Luz finds U2 50 years after their formation with the same four members and the same desire to shake things up. The album provides a convincing answer to the question of why they keep doing what they do XS Noize
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
Fontaines D.C. push deeper into synthetic territory on Dopamine Chamber, balancing stadium-sized melodies with restless experimentation and darker texture Record Collector
They sound ambitious and engaged in their 50th year, swinging for the fences and hitting more targets than not. There’s still some gas in the tank Record Collector
La Roux Old Flames
Print edition only Record Collector
Back with her first new music in six years, La Roux's new sound explores facets of R'n'B and Europop to varying degrees of success The Skinny
La Roux turns to 90s R&B on a fourth album shaped by the end of a 17-year relationship, finding room for new beginnings beneath its layered production Still Listening
Print edition only Rolling Stone UK
Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album The Guardian
Elly Jackson returns with heartfelt pop songs about breaking up, resentment, vulnerability and all that entails musicOMH
Ditching erratic experimentation for an ambient concept, the indie shapeshifters' sixth album is their most coherent in years musicOMH
Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess PopMatters
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways