11 May 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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TheADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources, taking into account the number of reviews
9.3
Third studio album from the Compton rap artist with Dr. Dre as executive producer
Added: 19/03/2015
9.2
Fifth studio album of baroque pop from the New York-born Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter
Added: 17/04/2020
9.1
Second studio album from the Canadian heavy metal band workign with producers Dan Braunstein and Mike Stringer
Added: 07/03/2025
Fourth full-length album from the Compton rapper featuring guest appearances from Rihanna, Bono, and Zacari
Added: 16/04/2017
Third studio album and first for fourteen years from the Richmond, Virginia, neo soul / funk multi-instrumentalist and record producer
Added: 17/12/2014
9.0
Seventheenth studio album from the alternative rock band self-produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is the final part of a trilogy of albums following Push the Sky Away (2013) and Skeleton Tree (2016)
Added: 04/10/2019
Second album of experimental pop from former Slow Club member Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Added: 18/10/2021
8.9
The 39th album and first release of original songs since Tempest in 2012 from the legendary singer-songwriter
Added: 15/06/2020
Sixteenth studio album from the highly influential alternative rock band self-produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Added: 09/09/2016
Major label debut for the New Orleans-born R&B singer and member of the Odd Future hip hop collective
Added: 13/07/2012
Second full-length album from the London-born rapper includes guest appearances from Stormzy, James Blake, Wizkid, Snoh Aalegra and Boj
Added: 23/07/2021
8.8
The Vermont folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with a "folk opera" album reworking the story of Orpheus and Eurydice
Added: 25/04/2010
Album number fourteen and first in sixteen years from the veteran alternative rock band produced by Robert Smith and Paul Corkett
Added: 23/10/2024
Fourth studio album from the two hip hop heavyweights Killer Mike and El-P featuring guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Zack de la Rocha, DJ Premier, Josh Homme, Greg Nice, Mavis Staples, and Pharrell Williams
Added: 04/06/2020
Fifth album of hip hop from one of the biggest egos in contemporary rap
Added: 15/11/2010
The legendary Canadian singer-songwriter releases his fourteenth studio album
Added: 19/10/2016
Fourth album from the Dublin post-punk quintet produced by produced James Ford (Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Arctic Monleys)
Added: 16/08/2024
Third album from the London-based producer and composer Sam Shepherd is a collaboration with American saxophonist and the LSO
Added: 25/03/2021
Fourth album of soulful hip-hop from London-rapper Simbiatu Ajikawo produced by Inflo (Sault)
Added: 01/09/2021
Recorded in his home studio in Brooklyn, Sufjan returns to his indie folk roots for his seventh "official" studio album, named after his mother (who died in 2012) and his step-father
Added: 24/03/2015
Fifth album from Seattle-based indie pop solo artist Mike Hadreas produced by Blake Mills (Laura Marling, Jesca Hoop, Fiona Apple)
Added: 13/05/2020
Eighth studio album from Phil Elverum, released eight months after the passing of his wife, Geneviève Castrée
Added: 21/03/2017
Fourth album from the American country music artist.
Added: 21/12/2010
Debut album from the Dublin producer and songwriter David Balfe
Second album from the San Francisco post-metal band who combine elements of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock
Added: 12/06/2013
8.7
Eighth album and first in 10 years from the Olympia, Washington all-girl punk trio
Added: 12/01/2015
The veteran alt.rock songstress enhances the folk rock roots she laid down on 2009's White Chalk with bigger arrangements
Added: 03/02/2011
Fourth album and first in seven years from the Leeds-born pop-soul singer-songwriter
Added: 15/09/2023
Debut full-length release from the English rapper is a concept album following his struggles with mental health
Added: 09/03/2019
The influential Irish shoegaze band with one of the most anticipated comeback albums of the past two decades, released via their website and also put out by them on YouTube
Added: 04/02/2013
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Tall Tales
In an ever more synthetically intertwined world, Tall Tales sees Pritchard and Yorke plug into the fragility of social structures built on sandThe Line Of Best Fit
billy woods GOLLIWOG
Golliwog may be filled with allusions to the cannon of Black horror but its setting is the real world, a horror story created by our own loud silences. That’s about as scary as it getsThe Line Of Best Fit
Mclusky The World Is Still Here and So Are We
They were a band, then weren’t, then are again. Thank whatever chaotic deity made that possible, because the world might still be here, but it sounds a hell of a lot better with mclusky back in it, you just crave so much moreThe Line Of Best Fit
The highly acclaimed British creatives unite for a cohesive, atmospheric record that is by turns moody, enveloping, and surrealmusicOMH
Despite its piecemeal half-decade gestation, Tall Tales is a coherent, if often cryptic joint effortAll Music
Arcade Fire Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant feels like an album Arcade Fire "had to" make, one that addresses a very public period of the band's history without getting too deep (or deep enough at all) into the matter, like they just want everyone to forget about it and move on to the inevitable next album cycleAll Music
The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityThe Guardian
It reprises their indie-modified take on panoramic, heartland rock and synth-pop, though with little emotional impact and no clear intent. Print edition onlyUncut
It's largely stripped of their loftier excesses. Instead, the tone - meditative, inward-looking - coalesces around Circle Of Trust's tender electro, Ride Or Die's minimal escapist lullaby or the tech-U2 of She Cries Diamond Rain. Print edition onlyMojo
Embattled rockers recenter their musical vision and emotional world on Pink ElephantRolling Stone
PinkPantheress Fancy That
It's a tentative 4/4 plod that fluffs sweetly byThe Arts Desk
20-minute mixtape Fancy That highlights the rising U.K. pop star's fondness for collaborations and early-2000s bangersRolling Stone
The mixtape marks a decided shift from the primarily U.K. garage of the singer’s debut albumSlant Magazine
Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feelThe Guardian
No features, no distractions. Just her, telling stories and building a new soundscape out of the one that raised herClash
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"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)
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 LamarTo Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona AppleFetch The Bolt Cutters
SpiritboxTsunami Sea
Kendrick LamarDamn.
D'Angelo And The VanguardBlack Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad SeedsGhosteen
Self EsteemPrioritise Pleasure
Bob DylanRough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad SeedsSkeleton Tree
Frank OceanChannel Orange