1 August 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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U.S. Girls Scratch It
On Scratch It, U.S. Girls experiment with the sonic topography of Nashville to further explore the emotional landscape of vulnerability and materiality PopMatters
Reneé Rapp Bite Me
Hell-raising rocker parties her troubles away on her uproarious second album Rolling Stone
The New Eves The New Eve Is Rising
Post punk grit and grainy folk might be its kindling, but the fire that follows is all of its own making and certainly not one for beard-stroking analysis or categorisation. Indeed, the maps of contemporary British underground music may need some redrawing, because The New Eves just nudged the compass a few vital, exciting degrees God Is In The TV
She sounds like she’s going to explode with sheer, visceral pleasure The Arts Desk
Reneé Rapp’s BITE ME isn’t an album that’s here to behave. It’s here to unravel, rebuild, scream, flirt, fall apart and dance anyway Spectrum Culture
The record is outstanding—a real frustrated release, not just in lyricism but in all aspects. Every instrument plays a crucial part, and every second feels accounted for. It’s not the kind of album which will be music to the ears of everyone, but the ones who get it will get it Far Out
The New Eve Is Rising is a confident, adventurous debut, intuitive yet purposeful and full of reinvention’s promise. Print edition only Uncut
A record of curious indulgence, ‘The New Is Rising’ stands out through its bloody-minded singularities. A brisk song cycle, The New Eves maintain an incredible sense of unity across its nine-track span – an incantation of identity, it’s an unforgettable debut Clash
Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity The Guardian
A playful exercise in boundary-pushing and performance DIY
Folk Bitch Trio Now Would Be A Good Time
When Folk Bitch Trio came up with such distinguished, mature music so early on, what should we expect from them next, then? Spill Magazine
There’s a freedom to ‘BITE ME’ that feels new for Reneé Rapp – it’s a record that is cut from her very core, completely on her own terms, with all her cards on the table, and it is in that environment that she thrives Dork
Her second studio album shines brightest when she lets rip with savage one-liners Evening Standard
Like fellow pop star Olivia Rodrigo, Rapp is often at her best when she’s on the attack, clapping back at the haters and eviscerating her exes The Independent
Grunge-infused You’d Like That Wouldn’t You weaves killer melody into pop gold, pinpointing Reneé Rapp as an artist to watch The Irish Times
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"Spikier, sleazier and sexier, the Isle of Wight duo defy second album syndrome" (9/10 - musicOMH). "The band’s propensity for catchy, danceable garage-punk remains intact" (8/10 - Slant)
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