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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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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)

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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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6.9

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Who Built The Moon?

Third solo album from the former Oasis mainman produced by Irish electronic musician David Holmes

Added: 22/11/2017
6.9

Mudhoney

Plastic Eternity

Eleventh studio album from the Seattle-based alternative punk/grunge foursome recorded with longtime collaborator Johnny Sangster

Added: 12/04/2023
6.9

Molly Tuttle

When You're Ready

Debut full-length album from the Californian-born bluegrass musician who won Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards

Added: 08/04/2019
6.9

Mø

Motordrome

Third album from the Danish singer songwriter Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen working with a number of producers including Ariel Rechtshaid, Ronni Vindahl,Jam City, Lotus IV and Stint

Added: 27/01/2022
6.9

Mild High Club

Going Going Gone

Third album from the Chicago psychedelic pop group led by producer and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Brettin

Added: 21/09/2021
6.9

Matt Maltese

Driving Just to Drive

Fourth album from the British-Canadian singer-songwriter

Added: 01/05/2023
6.9

Mary J Blige

The London Sessions

Album number thirteen from the New York City R&B singer includes contributions from Disclosure, Naughty Boy, Emeli Sandé and Sam Smith

Added: 27/11/2014
6.9

Mark Ronson

Uptown Special

Fourth studio album of R&B and funk from the much sought after producer and musician

Added: 14/01/2015
6.9

Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle

Perils From The Sea

A collaboration of chilly electronica from the men behind Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon on one hand and The Album Leaf on the other

Added: 14/05/2013
6.9

Madonna

Madame X

Fourteenth studio album from the pop singer featuring guest appearances from Anitta, Maluma, Quavo, and Swae Lee

Added: 12/06/2019
6.9

Lone Wolf

The Lovers

Electronica-enhanced alt.folk from Leeds-based singer-songwriter Paul Marshall on his first album on his own label having left Bella Union

Added: 21/11/2012
6.9

Life Coach

Alphawaves

Second album from Trans Am founder Phil Manley brings together drone, psychedelia and Krautrock

Added: 25/04/2013
6.9

La Sera

Music For Listening To Music To

Fourth album of lo-fi indie from the former Vivian Girl Katy Goodman working with husband, guitarist and co-writer Todd Wisenbaker and producer Ryan Adams

Added: 02/03/2016
6.9

Kowloon Walled City

Grievances

Third album from San Francisco's noise-rock quartet

Added: 19/10/2015
6.9

John Mayer

Paradise Valley

The US pop rock singer-songwriter continues down the Americana route on his 6th album, again produced by Don Was and also featuring Frank Ocean and Katy Perry

Added: 22/08/2013
6.9

Institute

Catharsis

Debut full-length release from the Austin, Texas post punk outfit

Added: 23/06/2015
6.9

HTRK

Venus In Leo

Fourth album and first in five years from the Melbourne, Australia experimental indie rock duo

Added: 04/09/2019
6.9

Horse Feathers

Appreciation

Sixth album from the Portland indie folk group fronted by singer/songwriter Justin Ringle

Added: 22/05/2018
6.9

Hercules & Love Affair

The Feast of the Broken Heart

Album number three from Andy Bulter's disco/house project which includes special guest John Grant

Added: 23/05/2014
6.9

Hanni El Khatib

Flight

Fifth album from the Los Angeles-based, multi-instrumentalist and Innovative Leisure co-owner

Added: 18/05/2020
6.9

Grandbrothers

Open

Second album from Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel, the piano / experimental duo from Düsseldorf

Added: 24/10/2017
6.9

Grace Potter

Midnight

The Nocturnal's frontwoman releases her first solo album since her 2004 debut, with an electropop bent

Added: 28/08/2015
6.9

Gnod

Chaudelande

First digital release from the Manchester-based drone & psychedelic noise collective is triple album

Added: 06/03/2013
6.9

Fatima Al Qadiri

Brute

Second album of experimental electronica from the Kuwait-born producer

Added: 10/03/2016
6.9

Ezra Furman

Big Fugitive Life

Second EP release and follow up to 2015's Perpetual Motion People from the Chicago-based psychedelic rock singer-songwriter

Added: 26/08/2016
6.9

Eric Prydz

Opus

Debut studio album from the LA-based Swedish DJ and producer

Added: 12/02/2016
6.9

Eric Copeland

Limbo

More electronic experiments on the 3rd solo outing from the member of Black Dice

Added: 24/07/2012
6.9

Dr. Dog

Shame, Shame

Sixth album of psychedelic rock from Philadelphia band produced by Rob Schnapf ( Beck, Elliott Smith)

Added: 13/04/2010
6.9

Deep Time

Deep Time

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

Added: 12/07/2012
6.9

Death Vessel

Island Intervals

Third record of neo-folk from Joel Thibodeau, recorded with Sigur Rós' Jónsi and his producer/partner Alex Somers in Reykjavik

Added: 21/02/2014

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