11 June 2025
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
Pulp More
More is very much what most will have expected: Pulp sitting back and crafting an expertly compelling album on ageing, adapting their signature topics and quirks to the perspective of autumnal age Beats Per Minute
Turnstile Never Enough
A vital, exhilarating offering, sure to catapult them further out of the hardcore scene and ever closer to mainstream musical lore DIY
Addison Rae Addison
The Louisiana singer and former TikTok star crafts a gorgeous soundtrack to modern womanhood on her highly anticipated debut album NME
yeule Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
Evangelic Girl is a Gun is a pop album perfect for a world where truth is uncertain, and where we’re all as online as we are in the flesh Spectrum Culture
Like so much good pop music, the album makes hard work seem like second nature Slant Magazine
The girlypop album of summer warrants comparison to Lana, Madonna, and most of all, Britney. Are we ready for Addison? Pitchfork
We may have witnessed one of this decade’s most satisfying rebrands yet The Line Of Best Fit
The TikTok star turned pop hitmaker lays a promising foundation on her debut album Rolling Stone
The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deep The Guardian
On her carefree debut, the US musician has gone mononymous and enlisted Swedish producers to help craft a Nineties and Y2K scrapbook that balances pop, past and present but never feels too try-hard The Independent
‘Addison’ is a masterful pop album that comes from the heart, and there’s not many of those around right now Clash
The Sheffield band return with their first record in 24 years, but the 11 songs lack chemistry The FT
Little Simz Lotus
The Londoner raps about getting through tough times on her gripping new record The FT
More is classic Pulp, aged to near perfection All Music
On Lotus, the exceptionally gifted rapper is more vulnerable than ever, yet this only pushes her to be at her most self-empowering All Music
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
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange