26 September 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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Debut album from the South London born grime artist
8.0
Poignant bars and skillful production - for a rap record it's full of jazz and soul Read Review
The most honest, soulful and inspiring debut British rap albums since Roots Manuva’s Brand New Second Hand from 1999 Read Review
It’s an honest, soulful and superbly well-executed body of work, and one of the best British rap debuts for a long time Read Review
A massive album in every sense Read Review
An album that weaves in and out of domestic life and musical ambition. Print edition only
The Isle of Arran opens the album with a glorious gospel choir and a pugnacious crisis of faith in father figures. It’s the sort of track that would end most other albums Read Review
Make no mistake, its creativity and poetry will floor you Read Review
An engrossing and impressive debut Read Review
Ultimately feels like an ode to the foundations of family and the love, nurturing and creative spirit they foster Read Review
In a crowded market, Yesterday’s Gone manages to carve out its own little world, one that’s both unique and universal Read Review
The future of UK hip-hop belongs to this man Read Review
British hip-hop finally got serious – and Loyle Carner is leading the charge Read Review
Something very different from the frantic fire of grime Read Review
Erudite and insightful debut. Print edition only
Can be best summed up by its album art; Carner standing tall amongst his family and friends, with his football and dog in tow Read Review
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Loyle Carner: Yesterday's Gone
Geese Getting Killed
A carefully crafted and expansive release from a group of young musicians truly coming of age DIY
Getting Killed is an instant classic that only a band as nuts as Geese could compose Northern Transmissions
The NYC band’s apocalyptic third album is a deeply exciting, provoking, and necessary gulf of no-fuss rock music Paste Magazine
The band’s best effort yet Under The Radar
The Brooklyn quartet’s third album brings a sense of unerring chaos to a work that is exciting, creative and wondrously strange musicOMH
The curveballs keep flying through the climactic triptych - the Kid A-evoking eruption "Bow Down", the incantatory "Taxes" and the hallucinogenic "Long Island City Here I Come". Print edition only Uncut
A third album bursting with intense energy and sparkling invention. Print edition only Mojo
Getting Killed is certainly several cuts above some other recent offerings from cultural scroungers, but you can't help but remember we were all charmed by Kings of Leon for a while too Exclaim
There’s a lot going on across the five-piece’s erratic but original third album, yet it never feels like they’re losing control of the chaos NME
NewDad Altar
Altar’ might be about sacrifice, but NewDad have given up none of their magic; if anything, they’ve honed it Dork
Lola Young I'm Only F**king Myself
There’s no tidy resolution here; just a brilliant songwriter turning self-sabotage and late-night decisions into some of the most distinct, personality-packed pop around Dork
Jade That's Showbiz Baby!
Jade isn’t just trying to step out of a shadow; she’s pulling the curtain down and setting the scenery alight. It’s loud, gaudy, dazzling, sometimes absurd – and absolutely alive. If this is the debut, imagine the encore. That’s showbiz, baby Dork
Wednesday Bleeds
These American tales are sad, and maybe even a little funny Beats Per Minute
Suede Antidepressants
Somewhat of a companion piece to The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, Antidepressants will not only be a new favourite of Suede fans, but also open a new audience up to them Beats Per Minute
Cardi B AM I THE DRAMA?
Seven years on from her riotous debut, Cardi doubles down on bravado but drowns it in overlong tracks and half-baked collabs NME
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
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange