2 December 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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Third studio album from the New York rapper with guest appearances from FKA twigs, French Montana, Juicy J, Kid Cudi, Kodak Black, Moby, Frank Ocean, Skepta
6.4
The Harlem rapper's latest is loud, frenetic, and about as vibrant as hip-hop gets Read Review
Sonically, Testing is an experimental project. A shedding of the 29-year-old artist's old skin and a rebirth of something more profound and slightly more complicated Read Review
On his third studio album, Rocky is more experimental and personal. But for music that relies on the New York rapper’s artful intuitions, it’s unfortunate his intuitions are often very basic Read Review
An intriguing mix of garbled white noise and amp interference interspersed with splashes of instrumentals and a smattering of A-list features Read Review
ASAP Rocky takes to more experimentation in his music to match up with his style of fashion Read Review
Testing is what it says it is, though this far into his career, he should be doing better than merely a passing grade Read Review
The rapper’s aversion to the mainstream takes his third album to some glorious heights, with the help of Skepta and Frank Ocean. But is his swaggering decadence wearing thin? Read Review
Testing’s title might suggest experimentation, but it delivers more on tentativeness, with a smattering of solid songs mixed into aesthetically interesting but unresolved experiments Read Review
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Oneohtrix Point Never Tranquilizer
On his 11th album, producer Daniel Lopatin saves the best for last musicOMH
FKA Twigs EUSEXUA Afterglow
Overall, it is an exciting era for FKA Twigs fans, as she continues her winning streak Sputnik Music (staff)
Stella Donnelly LOVE AND FORTUNE
Love And Fortune is both expansive and intimate, creating a space to feel and filling it with Donnelly's truth Hot Press
Every aspect of EUSEXUA Afterglow stems from her imagination – and what a vibrant imagination it is Hot Press
Keaton Henson Parader
The album has many excellent songs, but perhaps the most memorable is ‘Conversation Coach’, a playful, self-reflective number about how Henson struggles during social situations Hot Press
Daniel Lopatin’s latest and eleventh Oneohtrix Point Never album is a compelling, suitable soundtrack for the modern endless scroll A.V. Club
De La Soul Cabin In The Sky
The first release since the death of their founding member dwells on the afterlife, yet doesn’t forsake their perpetually sunny sound The Guardian
Refreshes the quirks that made the trio so charming across their tenure, while taking stock of the matured realities and changes they have been forced to reckon with Paste Magazine
The group’s first record since the death of founding member Trugoy The Dove is packed with purpose, poignant lyricism and fresh reflection NME
Cabin in the Sky, the iconic hip-hop group’s first album in nearly a decade, movingly honors co-founder Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, who died in 202 Rolling Stone
As one of the most straight-forwardly enjoyable hip-hop albums 2025 has offered us, you’d be hard-pushed to top it for entertainment Clash
Tobias Jesso Jr. Shine
There’s a lot of talent simmering in this guy; maybe he’s still too hesitant to use it, but if he ever lets loose, we could have a star on our hands Northern Transmissions
Ten years after his breakout debut, the Canadian singer-songwriter returns with a sparse yet feeble sophomore record that feels less like a proper follow-up and more like a collection of unused demos for other artists Paste Magazine
While one has to admire his gumption for such a quizzical album launch, s h i n e sounds no more essential than if Jesso Jr. had given it another shot while he was collecting his hefty royalty checks No Ripcord
The Los Angeles singer-songwriter and feted hired gun put his session work on hold to record a comeback album with the intimacy and immediacy of a homespun demo Pitchfork
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