Any decent music? We review the reviews. You get the final word

Hello

5 April 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.

Just in

New albums just added

Unlisted recent releases

Follow us on

Join us on twitter

join us on facebook

join us on MySpace

Source list

View top rated by publication

Specialist Genres

Browse specific styles

ADM.Patreon.promo

New

Arlo ParksAmbiguous Desire

"Her most vividly realised and affecting body of work to date" (9/10 - DOY). "Arlo Parks approaches euphoria and vulnerability with a soothing ambivalence" (8/10 - The Skinny)

New

Sunn O)))Sunn O)))

"An immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of Washington" (8/10 - The Guardian). "The album is a magnificently heavy double of downtuned, epic riffing" (9/10 - Uncut)

New

ThundercatDistracted

"Thundercat invites listeners into a space where confusion, beauty, and pain coexist, reminding us that even in a fractured world, there is still room to feel, create, and live fully" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions)

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

UnderscoresU

"A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre" (10/10 - NME). "Hits all the beats of a classic pop record" (8.3/10 - Paste)

James BlakeTrying Times

"A record that couldn’t be more consistently him" (9/10 - DIY). "Amid the stylistic shifts of Blake’s seventh record come samples of Dusty Springfield and Dizzee Rascal" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince BillyThe Marble Downs

"Strengthened by communal tendencies, meeting bombs in Iran and executions in Minneapolis not with clenched fists of protest, but with hugs" (8/10 - PopMaters).

GorillazThe Mountain

"The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive" (10/10 - The Independent). "Powerful reflections on mortality from Damon Albarn and Co" (8/10 - Hot Press)

MobyFuture Quiet

"Moby has created a 14-track state of therapy for his own mind but kindly offered it to the world. It is the offering of one of the genius producers of our time" (8/10 - CLash)

Charli XCXWuthering Heights

"This brilliantly moody soundtrack confirms Charli XCX as a star who makes better art when she’s not trying to deliver a hit" (10/10 - The Irish Times). "At times gorgeous" (8/10 - Clash)

Pitchfork : all time

The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

Customise your chart

7.7

Deep Time

Deep Time

Second album (the first released as YellowFever) from the Austin post-punk duo Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones

Added: 09/07/2012
7.7

Beachwood Sparks

The Tarnished Gold

The alt country / melodic psychedelia LA quartet return with their first album in 11 years

Added: 29/06/2012
7.7

Azealia Banks

1991

Long-awaited, much-hyped official debut EP from the Harlem rapper, produced by Brooklyn's Machinedrum and named for her year of birth

Added: 14/06/2012
7.7

Grass Widow

Internal Logic

Third album of lo-fi garage pop from the San Francisco trio

Added: 22/05/2012
7.7

Choir of Young Believers

Rhine Gold

Orchestral indie pop on the second album from the Danish band

Added: 22/05/2012
7.7

Black Dice

Mr Impossible

Album no.6 from the Brooklyn-based experimental electronic / noise rock / techno band

Added: 13/04/2012
7.7

Escort

Escort

Debut album from this Brooklyn duo who turned to straight disco - and grew into a 17-strong band - after years of making house singles

Added: 11/01/2012
7.7

Russian Circles

Empros

Fourth album of instrumental post-rock and metal from the Chicago trio

Added: 11/11/2011
7.7

200 Years

200 Years

Alt.rock, Americana and lo-fi psychedelia on the debut album from Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance) and Elisa Ambrogio (Magic Markers)

Added: 09/11/2011
7.7

King Midas Sound

Without You

Second offering from the collaboration between Kevin Martin (The Bug) and singer Roger Robinson, consisting of reworkings of their dubstep debut Waiting For You and involving an array of guests

Added: 02/11/2011
7.7

Kuedo

Severant

Synth sounds and sci-fi electronica on the debut from Jamie Teasdale, formerly of influential dubstep duo Vex’d

Added: 18/10/2011
7.7

Future Islands

On The Water

Third album of synthpop / new wave from the Baltimore trio

Added: 10/10/2011
7.7

Zola Jesus

Conatus

Russian American singer Nika Roza Danilova returns with her second full-length, combining elements of industrial, goth and electronic music

Added: 05/10/2011
7.7

Feist

Metals

Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist follows up her 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder

Added: 03/10/2011
7.7

Veronica Falls

Veronica Falls

Debut album of melodic indie / shoegaze from this London group

Added: 19/09/2011
7.7

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

Mirror Traffic

Fifth album from the Portland, Oregon indie rock quartet fronted by the former Pavement singer

Added: 22/08/2011
7.7

Beirut

The Rip Tide

Third album of Eastern European gypsy-flavoured folk/pop hybrid from New Mexican experimentalists fronted by Zach Condon

Added: 08/08/2011
7.7

Johann Johannsson

The Miners' Hymns

Eighth album from this avant-garde Icelandic composer, this one a soundtrack to a forthcoming film by the same name

Added: 28/06/2011
7.7

Blanck Mass

Blanck Mass

First solo album from Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin Power, dealing in more electronic drone experiments

Added: 27/06/2011
7.7

Black Lips

Arabia Mountain

Sixth studio album from the Atlanta, Georgia psych rock quartet produced by Mark Ronson

Added: 10/06/2011
7.7

Julian Lynch

Terra

Third collection of experimental collage-pop / ambient folk from the New Jersey artist and ethnomusicology student

Added: 26/04/2011
7.7

Kode9 And The Spaceape

Black Sun

Second collaborative album from dubstep pioneers Steve “Kode9” Goodman and Stephen “The Spaceape” Gordon

Added: 18/04/2011
7.7

Sonny & The Sunsets

Hit After Hit

Second album from the San Francisco-based 60s influenced indie pop band fronted by Sonny Smith

Added: 15/04/2011
7.7

TV on the Radio

Nine Types Of Light

Fourth studio album from the influential art rock Brooklyn five-piece

Added: 12/04/2011
7.7

Cold Cave

Cherish The Light Years

Second album of goth electro from the New York-based group

Added: 04/04/2011
7.7

Peaking Lights

936

Second album of dub and psych-flavoured lo-fi dream pop from the Wisconsin band

Added: 23/03/2011
7.7

Drive-By Truckers

Go-Go Boots

Ninth studio album of alt country / rock from the Athens Georgia six-piece

Added: 18/02/2011
7.7

Surf City

Kudos

Debut album of indie pop from New Zealand four-piece

Added: 15/02/2011
7.7

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Tell Me

Second album of alt country from Kent, Ohio singer-songwriter

Added: 11/02/2011
7.7

Iron & Wine

Kiss Each Other Clean

Fourth studio album from folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam

Added: 25/01/2011

Previous
1
...
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
...
211
Next

Latest Reviews

Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

One of those albums that evokes a tangible mood; in this case, somewhere adjacent to the sun coming up after a rollercoaster of a night out. As such, it's frequently wonderful. Print edition only Uncut

Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

"We're blossoming," she sings of a new romance, but she could easily be talking about herself and her artistic trajectory, having pulled off a daring makeover with such style. Print edition only Record Collector

Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

Any fear, dissociation or sorrow Parks describes is repeatedly shaken off in the communion of the dancefloor The Independent

Support what we do

Support what we do

As we're sure you are aware this is a really tough time for websites like ours. So we are asking you to help support us in any way you can via Patreon. Whether it's a small amount each month or a one-off payment, everything we receive will be put back into making ADM as good as it can possibly be.

Fresh stuff

Fresh stuff

It's The Long Goodbye by The Twilight Sad

"An astonishing body of work that firmly emphasizes what an important band The Twilight Sad are" (9/10 - Under The Radar). "A powerful and truly wonderful return from The Twilight Sad" (9/10 - Clash)

RobynSexistential
"Questioning everything about love, life and sex, Robyn takes us on a joyride that’s both serious and silly" (10/10 - Robyn). "A lesson in exactly what Robyn can do that nobody else quite can" (10/10 - Dork)

Courtney BarnettCreature of Habit
"The Australian’s best album since her debut is a soundtrack to starting again" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Courtney Barnett is here to rock. No frills, no fuss; just rock." (9/10 - PopMatters)

BTSARIRANG
"The world's biggest band stresses group identity and South Korean roots, while pushing the songs into adventurous new territory" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blockbuster album" (8/10 - Clash)

LadytronParadises
"Their contagious creative zeal is apparent throughout its entirety" (8/10 - Under The radar). "Their contagious creative zeal is apparent throughout its entirety" (7/10 - Far Out)

Kim GordonPlay Me
"It’s a huge credit to Gordon that, even in her 70s, she’s writing something so fresh, different, and plain relevant" (9/10 - Spill Magazine). "Sometimes resistance is a rhythmic thing" (8/10 - Exclaim)

The Black CrowesA Pound of Feathers
"Another vibrant, joyful, fun rock'n'roll record, albeit 'fun' with a slighter smaller 'f'." (10/10 - Mojo). "A rambunctious record that sees them adding new wrinkles to their exciting rock & roll sound" 8/10 - All Music)

SqueezeTrixies
"Revived and newly recorded, Difford and Tilbrook’s pre-fame project might be the best work of their caree" (10/10 - Mojo). "Presents the sound of one of the best bands in Britain" (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.