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9 June 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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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze

"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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of Montreal

Aethermead

Album number twenty from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock artist Kevin Barnes

Added: 05/06/2026
8.0

Paul McCartney

The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Twentieth solo album from the music legend co-produced with Andrew Watt

Added: 29/05/2026
8.0

Iceage

For Love of Grace & the Hereafter

Sixth album from the Danish post-punk quartet led by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt

Added: 28/05/2026
8.0

The Black Keys

Peaches!

Fourteenth studio album from the Akron Ohio garage rock duo Dan Auerback and Patrick Carney is a covers album including songs by R.L. Burnside, Dr. Feelgood, Earl Hooker and Junior Kimbrough

Added: 01/05/2026
8.0

American Football

American Football (LP4)

Fourth studio album and first in seven years from the Illinois-based indie quartet workign with producer Sonny DiPerri

Added: 01/05/2026
7.0

Boards of Canada

Inferno

Fifth studio album and first in thirteen years from the influential electronica Scottish duo Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin

Added: 28/05/2026
7.0

Ed O’Brien

Blue Morpho

Second solo album from the Radiohead guitarist working with producers Paul Epworth and Riley MacIntyre

Added: 21/05/2026
7.0

The Lemon Twigs

Look for Your Mind!

Sixth full-length release of psychedelic pop from the Long Island, New York brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario and first to feature touring members Reza Matin and Danny Ayala

Added: 08/05/2026
7.0

Aldous Harding

Train On The Island

Fifth album from the New Zealand-born gothic folk singer-songwriter recorded in Wales with co-producer John Parish

Added: 08/05/2026
6.0

Widowspeak

Roses Rouge Ecomix

Seventh full-length album from the Brooklyn indie rock duo Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas

Added: 03/06/2026
6.0

Kevin Morby

Little Wide Open

Eighth album of indie rock from the Kansas-based singer-songwriter produced by The National's Aaron Dessner

Added: 15/05/2026
6.0

Rostam

American Stories

Third solo album from the former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij

Added: 15/05/2026
6.0

Broken Social Scene

Remember The Humans

Sixth full-length studio album and first in nine years from the Canadian dream pop / art rock collective

Added: 08/05/2026
5.0

MUNA

Dancing On The Wall

Fourth album from the Los Angeles-based electronic pop trio produded by band member Naomi McPherson

Added: 07/05/2026
4.0

Bleachers

Everyone For Ten Minutes

Fifth album from producer Jack Antonoff's New York-based indie pop project

Added: 22/05/2026

Latest Reviews

Paul McCartney The Boys of Dungeon Lane

With its warm, welcome rejection of apathy and cynicism, The Boys of Dungeon Lane is an inviting, accessible and surprisingly memorable listen Exclaim

Vince Staples Cry Baby

This may be something different than what fans wanted or expected, but it's a project full of things that undoubtedly need to be said and heard Exclaim

Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me

Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me fits neatly and easily into Kurt Vile’s catalog, another comfortable guitar rock record played loose and breezy. Spectrum Culture

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Fresh stuff

Inferno by Boards of Canada

"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

IceageFor Love of Grace & the Hereafter
"The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting music" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Paul McCartneyThe Boys of Dungeon Lane
"A richly nostalgic trip that proves this legend is still as creative as ever" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "A welcome return from the master" (8.5/10 - Hot Press).

RostamAmerican Stories
"Meticulous, inventive record" (8/10 - Mojo). "A record of reflection and connection that ranks among the more beautiful-sounding you might hear this year" (8/10 - DIY)

The Coral388
"It’s a lucky number thirteen for fans – The Coral remain a band to cherish" (8/10 - Clash). "Every choppy guitar line and snaking Hammond or Farfisa lick form hooks in their own right" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

Genesis OwusuRedstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge
"Seething with righteous anger and moshpit-ready tracks, the Australian artist’s genre-hopping but cohesive LP makes a case for the durability of the form" (10/10 - The Guardian)

The Lemon TwigsLook for Your Mind!
"This is musical joy captured in a record one of the group’s strongest works to date" (9/10 - Clash). "The exultant power-pop on the D'Addario brothers' sixth album is untouchably brilliant" (7/10 - musicOMH)

Broken Social SceneRemember The Humans
"You can hear them having fun, bouncing the ideas off one another" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar). "Celebrates the joy and spirit of a bunch of old friends simply jamming together" (8/10 - musicOMH)

All-time top 10

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.

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