6 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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Death In Vegas Death Mask
Juddering drum tracks are surrounded by a fog-like haze of effects, smudging the canvas like a muddy weather system The Arts Desk
A surprisingly moving reflection of the big issues - family, death and companionship - as he processes his feelings through caustic noise and deep-flanged techno. Print edition only Uncut
Death Mask makes for a visceral, at time abrasive listen. Print edition only Mojo
Fearless has taken the Death in Vegas project in numerous seemingly unrelated directions over the years, and few who have been following him since the big beat era could have predicted him making noisy, uncompromising techno influenced by Terrence Dixon and Pan Sonic All Music
On Death Mask, Fearless lifts the lid on what lies beneath and exposes his true self in ways that he’s always been reluctant to entertain. Fearless honesty suits him. The Quietus
Richard Fearless returns with an intoxicating mix of an album where darker realisations and hedonistic beats compete for the same headspace musicOMH
Pulp More
More is that rarest of reunion records: one that transcends nostalgia to actually enhance a band’s legacy. Print edition only Mojo
They've matured- not like a fine wine, but maybe like a magnificently ripe Wensleydale. Print edition only Uncut
Little Simz Lotus
It showcases Little Simz’s personal resilience as she takes on this vulnerable melodic journey to selflessly blossom in her introversion Clash
Miley Cyrus Something Beautiful
A fascinating one-off, potentially; ‘Something Beautiful’ adds another layer to Miley Cyrus’ story Clash
Turnstile Never Enough
Few bands at their level are innovating and shapeshifting in the way they are, and ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ covers a massive expanse whilst also maintaining the core of Turnstile we fell in love with on ‘Pressure To Succeed’. And succeed they have Clash
Opener ‘Spike Island’ is already a fan favourite, a meta-musing on the Stone Roses’ gathering-of-the-tribes that has become the soundtrack to Pulp’s very own second coming Clash
Expansive in scope yet intimate in tone, the sixth album by this year’s Meltdown curator doesn’t put a foot wrong musicOMH
Garbage Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
The alt-rock veterans’ eighth album lacks the bite of their 2021 LP; despite typically expert production, the songwriting is noncommittal—though Shirley Manson remains a fierce, commanding presence Pitchfork
Sports Team Boys These Days
Sports Team are smart band incorporating bits and pieces of past music they love into their own modern sound and dryly funny lyrical point of view PopMatters
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"Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments" (9/10 - Far Out). "UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists" (8/4/10 - Pitchfork)
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