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8 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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6.9

Black Mountain

Destroyer

Fifth album from the Polaris-nominated Vancouver, BC psych/stoner rock band and first first to feature Rachel Fannan (Sleepy Sun) and Adam Bulgasem (Soft Kill) produced by John Congleton

Added: 27/05/2019
6.9

Beach Fossils

Beach Fossils

Debut album of lo-fi, summery, reverb-soaked indie pop from the Brooklyn band led by Dustin Payseur

Added: 06/06/2010
6.9

Washed Out

Within And Without

First full length release from Atlanta "chillwave" artist, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Ernest Greene, co-produced with Ben Allen

Added: 01/07/2011
6.9

Van Halen

A Different Kind Of Truth

Album number twelve for the Californian rock veterans and first for fourteen years

Added: 07/02/2012
6.9

TOY

Join The Dots

Second album from the London-based psychedelic krautrock five-piece

Added: 05/12/2013
6.9

The Knife

Tomorrow, In A Year

Opera soundtrack album (about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution no less) from the Swedish electronic duo, in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock

Added: 23/02/2010
6.9

The Go! Team

Rolling Blackouts

Third album combining elements of hip hop and indie rock from the Brighton-based sextet

Added: 07/01/2011
6.9

The Chemical Brothers

Born In The Echoes

Eighth studio album from the British electronic duo, featuring a guest appearance from Annie Clark (St. Vincent)

Added: 12/07/2015
6.9

Squarepusher

Ufabulum

Tom Jenkinson's latest album in his Squarepusher guise is one of glitch heavy electronica, with no live instrumentation

Added: 15/05/2012
6.9

Phantogram

Voices

Second album from the electronic rock / shoegaze duo from upstate New York

Added: 18/02/2014
6.9

My Morning Jacket

Circuital

Sixth album of reverb drenched psychedelic indie from the Kentucky veterans, following up 2008's divisive Evil Urges

Added: 24/05/2011
6.9

M83

Fantasy

Ninth album of electronic shoegaze from LA-based band led by Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez

Added: 14/03/2023
6.9

Exitmusic

Passage

Debut album of alt-pop from Brooklyn-based couple Devon Church and Aleksa Palladino

Added: 23/05/2012
6.9

Eagulls

Ullages

Follow-up to the well received self-title debut from the Leeds post-punk five-piece

Added: 11/05/2016
6.9

Dry The River

Shallow Bed

Debut album of alt.folk infused rock from the London five-piece produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol)

Added: 29/02/2012
6.9

Childhood

Lacuna

Debut album from the London-based lo-fi indie pop quartet produced by Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, Hot Chip, Steve Mason)

Added: 07/08/2014
6.9

Ariana Grande

Dangerous Woman

Third album from the American pop star, featuring Lil Wayne, Macy Gray and Nicki Minaj

Added: 20/05/2016
6.9

AlunaGeorge

I Remember

Second album from the electronic / R&B duo Aluna Francis and producer George Reid

Added: 16/09/2016
6.9

Adam Green & Binki Shapiro

Adam Green & Binki Shapiro

Debut collaboration from the man behind Moldy Peaches and the Little Joy singer

Added: 25/01/2013
6.9

Wolf People

Tidings

A retro melange of krautrock, psychedelic, fuzz and blues on the debut from the English outfit, the first UK band signed to Jagjaguwar

Added: 04/03/2010
6.9

Willard Grant Conspiracy

Paper Covers Stone

Robert Fisher's much-travelled, much-changing Californian alt country collective, with their 13th album

Added: 20/09/2010
6.9

Whitney

Spark

Fourth album from former Smith Westerns members Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich is produced by John Congleton and Brad Cook

Added: 15/09/2022
6.9

TOY

Clear Shot

Third album from the Brighton-based psychedelic krautrock five-piece produced by David Wrench (Bloc Party, Jamie xx)

Added: 26/10/2016
6.9

Total Slacker

Thrashin

Debut album from the Brooklyn trio specialising in lo-fi garage

Added: 04/10/2011
6.9

Tony Bennett

Duets II

The now 85-year old crooner follows up his 2006 pop duets album with another set, featuring big name guests

Added: 21/12/2011
6.9

Tom Vek

Luck

Third LP from the experimental rock and pop multi-instrumentalist from London

Added: 05/06/2014
6.9

Thomas Truax

Sonic Dreamer

Fifth album of steam punk from experimental musician using home-built percussion and instruments

Added: 08/07/2010
6.9

The Virgins

The Virgins

Debut from the New York dance-punk/garage rock quartet

Added: 26/06/2009
6.9

The Thermals

Personal Life

The Portland based power punks deliver their fifth album

Added: 27/09/2010
6.9

The Parrots

Los Ninos Sin Miedo

Debut full-length release from the Madrid-based garage-rock trio

Added: 26/08/2016

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Latest Reviews

Primal Scream Come Ahead

Bobby Gillespie is good at posturing, as rock frontmen ought to be, but emotional depth isn’t his thing The FT

The Cure Songs Of A Lost World

As usual with Smith at his saddest, you don’t leave his orbit feeling worse about the world. You feel comforted by the fact that someone shares this universal pain so deeply A.V. Club

Tyler, The Creator Chromakopia

After 15 years of being in the industry, Tyler, the Creator has reached the apex of his life and career. He’s ready to reap the accompanying benefits, and express himself fully, without the ever-present chip on his shoulder A.V. Club

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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.