2 March 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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Bill Callahan My Days of 58
Continues that evolution with warmth and clarity, shaping his songs into conversations with an old friend. It's always a pleasure to catch up with him, especially on an album as amiably profound as this one All Music
Iron & Wine Hen's Teeth
This record, and Light Verse, show that he is still searching, still working hard, and still able to imbue his albums with the same deep feeling and unstinting beauty that he has from the beginning All Music
Mitski Nothing's About to Happen to Me
A frenzied orchestral soundtrack for her gradual unravelling Clash
Gorillaz The Mountain
This is an album which proves Gorillaz can stretch their sound even further while remaining entirely in control Clash
By some distance their most ambitious album yet, this multilayered musical tour de force brings meaningful strands of hope to death, chaos and delirium musicOMH
Her eighth album is one that only she could make: strange, otherworldly and yet immediately accessible and addictive musicOMH
The delicate, technicolour tracks on Sam Beam’s eighth album see him consolidate his reputation as a songwriter of distinction musicOMH
Mitski’s homebound eighth album is both theatrical and restrained, responding to her newfound visibility with sober reflections on loneliness and delusion Pitchfork
Peaches No Lube So Rude
Pearl clutchers beware: The electro-punk icon’s first album in a decade revels in raunch — as good dirty fun, but also as a celebration of human desires, human needs, and human rights Pitchfork
Peaches returns with an album full of bangers and more than a few profanities – but does it all get a bit one note sometimes? The Quietus
When you’re consistently serving up brilliantly written songs that sound great and are performed with panache, that’s not a formula, that’s just being very good at your job The Line Of Best Fit
The Mountain feels deeper and more emotionally resonant than any of its predecessors: for all the project’s other merits, it’s rarely been appropriate to describe Gorillaz as beautiful, profound or moving The Line Of Best Fit
Though still working with the materials of human life – relationships, states of mind, creative impulses – he recognizes the transience and/or emptiness at the heart of everything. The search for wisdom has become Callahan’s raison d’etre The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a terrific work, thematically rich and containing some of the most precise and emotionally devastating songwriting of her career Consequence Of Sound
The album’s highest points may justify a certain excitement, as the artist is clearly still experimenting and expanding stylistically, always a welcome sign from someone as historically daring and luminous as Mr. Beam Under The Radar
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