14 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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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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Lifeguard Ripped And Torn
The young Chicago band crams its debut album with streamlined hooks and a reverence for pop, punk, and post-punk history Pitchfork
Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles
The outcome of this pairing is an uneven affair, with deep troughs and high peaks The Quietus
Addison Rae Addison
Addison simultaneously feels like a coronation and a make or break moment, and Rae has brilliantly cemented herself among pop’s newest faces Paste Magazine
Haim I quit
The three LA sisters dwell on the bitter end of a relationship in tracks that range from replayable valley-girl rap to plodding country-pop The Guardian
caroline Caroline 2
With their second album, caroline has achieved an impressive new accessibility, and done so mostly on their terms Spectrum Culture
The sister trio’s fantastic new I Quit is a cathartic concept record about hard-won independence Rolling Stone
This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer Rolling Stone UK
Hayden Pedigo I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
Hayden Pedigo’s latest album illustrates the internal struggle involved when expressing your identity, especially with the increased pressures of social media Spectrum Culture
These compositions are crammed with imaginative flourishes. Print edition only Uncut
To top it all off, the record ends even more facetiously, with a reading of its players and a thank you from Pedigo. It’s the first time we’ve heard Pedigo’s voice throughout the Motor Trilogy – an unexpected treat from an unexpected goodby Beats Per Minute
A record to spend time with, you won’t want to bid adieu to Hayden Pedigo on its conclusion Clash
It's another quiet gem from an artist in the full bloom of his talents All Music
On his most majestic and sincere record yet, the Texas guitarist plays with grace and power, evoking the gentle emptiness of the American West Pitchfork
On the Texas-born, Oklahoma-based picker’s third album with Mexican Summer, his ramblings are great surveys of a songbook turned strange by geography and his portraits of loneliness and redemption covet a paintbrush hued with resolve Paste Magazine
If Rae wants to build real longevity in music, she’ll need to go deeper, push harder, and move past just looking the part Northern Transmissions
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