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2 November 2024

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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Tyler, The CreatorChromakopia

"‘It has depth, it has worldbuilding, but just as importantly, it has some absolute bangers, too" (10/10 - Dork). "it's as free as he's ever sounded" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

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Mount EerieNight Palace

"A record of such substance that it takes a few listens to really make sense he’s produced one of his best yet" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "He’s produced one of his best yet" (8/10 - Far Out)

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Laura MarlingPatterns in Repeat Signed

"Both stunningly intimate and endearingly raw" (10/10 - DIY). "A homey, quiet record. It’s one of the best of her career" (8.3/10 - Pitchfork). "Simple, graceful, moving, tender" (9/10 - Uncut)

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

Christopher OwensI Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

"Potentially one of the year’s best records" (10/10 - DIY). "A must-listen for anyone who’s ever been in the type of love that doesn’t always get a light shone on it" (9/10 - Northern Transmissions)

Ezra CollectiveDance, No One's Watching

"This is truly a fresh musical experience, rather than being just another jazz record" (9/10 - Far Out). "A joyful reminder of music’s ability to bring people together, to move us, and to make us dance" (8/10 - Clash)

Jamie xxIn Waves

"Blistering return from dance’s master craftsman" (10/10 - The irish Times). "Jamie xx has delivered a masterpiece that will linger long after the last beat fades" (9/10 - Clash)

Floating PointsCascade

"Cherish it while you can, before he sets off on a completely different tangent once more" (8/10 - Far Out). "Easily the most successful work he's made as a dance producer" (8/10 - All Music)

MJ LendermanManning Fireworks

"A collection of caricatures ballooned by empathy, bruised egos, and lovable self-destruction" (9.2/10 - Paste). "It's the release he's been waiting for since the first utterances of the album" (9/10 - Exclaim)

Nick Cave And The Bad SeedsWild God

"The dark intensities are leavened by something peculiar in Cave’s oeuvre: joy" (8/10 - The Arts Desk). "The joy after the storm" (8/10 - The Irish Times)

Gillian Welch & David RawlingsWoodland

"The intuitive bond between the two musicians remains at the forefront of their terrific new album, full of quiet adventures and clear empathy" (8/10 - Pitchfork)

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

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7.3

Hinds

Leave Me Alone

Debut album from the Madrid-based garage rock quartet

Added: 04/01/2016
7.3

Glass Animals

Zaba

Debut album from the Oxford indie rock quartet produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence and the Machine, Coldplay) and release on his own label

Added: 09/06/2014
7.3

Girl Ray

Earl Grey

Debut album from the Brighton-based indie pop trio

Added: 01/08/2017
7.3

Future

Ds2

Third album from Atlanta, Georgia hip hop artist Nayvadius Cash

Added: 22/07/2015
7.3

Frankie Rose

Interstellar

Second album of alt-pop / dream pop from the Brooklyn-based former Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls drummer

Added: 21/02/2012
7.3

Emika

Emika

Debut album from the Czech-born, UK-based singer and producer, taking inspiration from techno and dubstep

Added: 06/10/2011
7.3

Eleanor Friedberger

New View

Third solo album from the Fiery Furnaces singer, her first on Frenchkiss

Added: 17/01/2016
7.3

Dirty Projectors & Bjork

Mount Wittenberg Orca

Seven-track self-recorded experimental folk mini album, initially available only digitally, the result of a collaborative project for charity

Added: 12/07/2010
7.3

Deerhoof

Vs. Evil

Eleventh studio album from San Francisco art rock quartet

Added: 07/01/2011
7.3

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Rome

Collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and Italian film-score composer Luppi includes contributions from Jack White and Norah Jones

Added: 10/05/2011
7.3

Crystal Stilts

In Love With Oblivion

Second album of noise pop / shoegaze from the Brooklyn five-piece

Added: 08/04/2011
7.3

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CLPPNG

Second LP from Los Angeles trio consisting of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson

Added: 06/06/2014
7.3

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Wolfroy Goes To Town

Latest offering from lo-fi alt.folk legend Will Oldham, this time accompanied by Chicago songwriter Angel Olsen

Added: 11/10/2011
7.3

Beth Orton

Sugaring Season

Fifth studio album from BRIT award winning English singer-songwriter and folk musician, recorded in Portland, Oregon

Added: 27/09/2012
7.3

Bat For Lashes

Lost Girls

Fifth album from baroque pop singer-songwriter Natasha Khan influenced by 1980s music and cinema

Added: 04/09/2019
7.3

Avey Tare

Down There

First solo album of experimental rock from Animal Collective member David Portner

Added: 20/10/2010
7.3

Yvette

Process

Brooklyn two-piece release their debut LP of industrial noise-rock

Added: 14/05/2014
7.3

Yuck

Yuck

Debut album of lo-fi alt.rock from the band formed by former Cajun Dance Party members Max Bloom and Daniel Blumberg

Added: 09/02/2011
7.3

Young Thug

So Much Fun

Second studio album from Atlanta rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams executive produced by J. Cole

Added: 22/08/2019
7.3

Yann Tiersen

Dust Lane

First studio album entirely in English from the French avant-garde merchant.

Added: 08/10/2010
7.3

Woods

With Light & With Love

Album number six from psychedelic folk rockers, fronted by Woodsist label boss Jeremy Earl

Added: 14/04/2014
7.3

Wooden Shjips

Vol 2

Second compilation of rare singles and vintage covers from the San Francisco garage psychedelia specialists

Added: 22/03/2010
7.3

Wishy

Triple Seven

Debut full-length release of indie-pop / shoegaze from the Indianapolis five-piece led by Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites

Added: 19/08/2024
7.3

White Denim

Performance

Eighth studio album from the Austin, Texas group, recorded at their new Radio Milk studio

Added: 22/08/2018
7.3

Vince Clarke

Songs Of Silence

Debut full-length solo release from the Erasure synth-pop musician and songwriter

Added: 17/11/2023
7.3

Various

T2 Trainspotting: OST

Soundtrack to Danny Boyle's latest movie, featuring the likes Iggy Pop, Young Fathers, Wolf Alice, and Underworld

Added: 03/02/2017
7.3

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Funky psych-rock on the much-anticipated debut from the Oregon-based trio led by New Zealander Ruban Nielson

Added: 28/06/2011
7.3

Ufomammut

Oro: Opus Primum

Album no.6 from the Italian sludge / doom metal outfit, a two-CD, five-track first part of a suite

Added: 23/04/2012
7.3

Tune-Yards

BiRd-BrAiNs

Solo release from Sister Suvi member Merrill Garbus, a home-recorded lo-fi debut with plenty ukelele

Added: 17/11/2009
7.3

True Widow

As High As the Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth

Second album from Dallas-based slow-core trio

Added: 02/05/2011

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Latest Reviews

Mount Eerie Night Palace

It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. Print edition only Uncut

Mount Eerie Night Palace

On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones The Skinny

Mount Eerie Night Palace

Phil Elverum seems to have made peace with impermanence on his latest, a sprawling 26-track double album Paste Magazine

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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.