14 October 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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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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Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
As dark chroniclers of their age, Fontaines D.C. are here to illuminate the gloom Mojo
Troye Sivan She's The Best
Troye Sivan’s fourth album pushes his pop further out while staying rooted in love, memory and the women who shaped him Still Listening
Dopamine Chamber finds Fontaines moving even further away from the live guitar emphasis of their earlier work – embracing new styles in ways that are, by turns, liberating and devastating Hot Press
When a band reaches a certain size, a lot of people start claiming they were better before they got big. We defy anyone to listen to 'Dopamine Chamber' and make that claim in good faith - this is a band firing on all cylinders and staking their claim to be the best band of their generation Dork
Cameron Winter Live at Carnegie Hall
As effective as Winter may be when it comes to playing frontman – for Geese or some other ensemble – he’s equally effective, if not more so, by himself, alone under the proverbial spotlight, his songs brimming with mystery, grief, and flashes of humor Beats Per Minute
Remi Wolf Mud
The LA-based indie-pop singer streamlines the silly-sweet cleverness and adventurous flourishes of her previous efforts into a more melancholic and cohesive work Paste Magazine
Teenage Fanclub Do Not Dare To Dream
Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album offers wisdom, warmth, comfort and hope, wrapped in beguilingly gentle and sensitive folk-inflected songs; it's a beautiful and perfectly realized record, if slightly lacking the fire of the band’s earlier work Spectrum Culture
On Dopamine Chamber, the Irish band reaches further into electronic moodiness while delivering hard-hitting reflections on how to stay sane — and maybe even hopeful — these days Rolling Stone
The album’s best songs lean into sinister undertones with relish Slant Magazine
While Romance wasn’t the most cohesive LP, the majority of its tracks included beguiling hooks and textbook popcraft. Dopamine, too, is more a grab bag of songs than a precisely outlined set. Unfortunately, in Dopamine’s case, the pop savvy appears less consistently, leaving various tunes groping for identity The Line Of Best Fit
Bloc Party Anatomy Of A Brief Romance
Bloc Party’s new album is catchy in the worst possible way: strange, irritating and hard to shake for all the wrong reasons Still Listening
The key term here is immediate, as Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley who keep holding the Teenage Fanclub ship have gone for a more layered concept here, instinctively or intentionally, as the listeners have to keep peeling the layers to get to the essence here, and that peeling is quite worth every listener’s time Spill Magazine
Live at Carnegie Hall inevitably calls back to the great artists who have graced that stage before him, though the pensiveness of the recording is equally impactful, capturing Cameron Winter staying true to his nature Northern Transmissions
The Australian singer broadens the sexy, sultry queer pop formula he cultivated on his last record, but loses some of its novelty and edge as he strains to go bigger and outdo himself Paste Magazine
As Dublin’s finest reach stadium level, album five dives deeper into the extremes of ‘Romance’ for a dark but exhilarating reflection of end times 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
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