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15 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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Primal ScreamCome Ahead

"A triumph in thematic/aural juxtaposition. Up there with Primal Scream’s best" (8/10 Mojo) OR "Not even David Holmes’s involvement can save this woefully inadequate collection" (2/10 - Irish Times)

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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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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)

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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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7.0

Broods

Conscious

Second album from New Zealand brother/sister indie/electronic duo Georgia and Caleb Nott

Added: 01/07/2016
7.0

Bret Mckenzie

Songs Without Jokes

Debut full-length non-comedy album from Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie

Added: 30/08/2022
7.0

Black Honey

A Fistful Of Peaches

Third album from the Brighton four-piece indie rock band

Added: 24/03/2023
7.0

Big Freedia

Just Be Free

First official album from Freddie Ross, the bounce music pioneer

Added: 03/07/2014
7.0

Benny Sings

Music

Album number eight from the Dutch musician, songwriter, and producer Tim van Berkestijn

Added: 13/04/2021
7.0

Author & Punisher

Kruller

Ninth album from the San Diego industrial metal artist Tristan Shone

Added: 16/02/2022
7.0

Alkaline Trio

My Shame Is True

The long-standing Chicago pop punk trio reach studio album No.8 after a three-year gap

Added: 07/05/2013
7.0

86TVs

86TVs

Debut album from the The Maccabees' Felix and Hugo White with brother Will and former Noisettes drummer Jamie Morrison produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Kaiser Chiefs)

Added: 12/08/2024
7.0

The Low Anthem

Smart Flesh

Fourth album of indie folk from the Rhode Island four-piece

Added: 14/02/2011
7.0

The Gaslight Anthem

American Slang

Third album of Springsteen-approved indie rock / punk from the New Jersey band led by singer Brian Fallon

Added: 31/05/2010
7.0

Temples

Sun Structures

Debut album from hotly tipped psychedelic quartet from Kettering, Northamptonshire

Added: 05/02/2014
7.0

Roots Manuva

4everevolution

Rodney Smith, veteran of the UK hip-hop scene, delivers his fifth album

Added: 20/09/2011
7.0

Little Dragon

Nabuma Rubberband

Fourth album of dreamy trip hop/pop from the Gothenburg outfit

Added: 07/05/2014
7.0

Django Django

Marble Skies

Third studio album from the London-based art rock quartet

Added: 23/01/2018
7.0

Daft Punk

Tron Legacy

First film soundtrack from the French electronic duo

Added: 29/11/2010
7.0

Cults

Cults

60s girl-group influenced reverb-soaked indie pop on the debut from NY duo Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion

Added: 25/05/2011
7.0

Bombay Bicycle Club

So Long See You Tomorrow

The London quartet forsake indie rock for electronica and dance on their fourth album

Added: 30/01/2014
7.0

Blood Orange

Coastal Grooves

First album proper from Dev Hynes' current electro guise, after last year's Lightspeed Champion album.

Added: 01/08/2011
7.0

Zola Jesus & JG Thirlwell

Versions

Neo-classical reworkings of previous releases from the Russian American singer Nika Roza Danilova in a collaboration with producer Thirlwell

Added: 14/08/2013
7.0

The Tallest Man On Earth

There's No Leaving Now

The third full-length album of country and folk from this Swedish singer-songwriter

Added: 12/06/2012
7.0

The Tallest Man On Earth

Dark Bird is Home

Fourth LP from Kristian Matsson, the Swedish singer-wongwriter, his most direct and personal work yet

Added: 07/05/2015
7.0

The Pastels

Slow Summits

First full length album in sixteen years from the Glasgow indie pop band

Added: 23/05/2013
7.0

The Mars Volta

Noctourniquet

Ahead of the reunion of At The Drive In, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodruguez release their sixth album of psychedelic jazz metal

Added: 22/03/2012
7.0

The Black Keys

Turn Blue

Eighth studio album from the Akron Ohio garage rock duo Dan Auerback and Patrick Carney produced along with Danger Mouse

Added: 07/05/2014
7.0

Santigold

Master Of My Make-Believe

Santi White releases her second album of reggae tinged pop, a collaboration with a variety of producers, from Diplo to Nick Zinner

Added: 20/04/2012
7.0

FIDLAR

Too

Second album of skate garage punk from the LA-based quartet

Added: 02/09/2015
7.0

Delphic

Acolyte

Debut album from Manchester's hotly-tipped 'post-dance' electronic indie trio

Added: 06/01/2010
7.0

Chelsea Light Moving

Chelsea Light Moving

Debut album from new alt.rock band featuring Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore

Added: 28/02/2013
7.0

A$AP Rocky

Long. Live. A$AP.

Much-anticipated major label hip hop debut from the Harlem rapper, following up his highly-praised 2011 mixtape release Live. Love. A$AP

Added: 08/01/2013
7.0

Woods

Sun & Shade

Fifth studio album from the Brooklyn lo-fi folk-rock trio released on founder Jeremy Earl's own label

Added: 09/06/2011

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Michael Kiwanuka Small Changes

It's a record built to last, from an artist both asserting his footing and opening himself wide, embracing the demands of changes big or small. Print edition only Record Collector

Michael Kiwanuka Small Changes

But as personal as all of these songs sound, there’s a universality to Small Changes that, as with all Kiwanuka’s records, will emotionally connect with others. Everybody hurts, it seems to say, but this might help. Print edition only Mojo

Michael Kiwanuka Small Changes

String arrangements gently brushed in, and downtempo, peaceful rhythms, contentment still spiked with his trademark melancholy. Print edition only Uncut

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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.