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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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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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6.8

Röyksopp

Junior

Norwegian eclectic dance duo plus assorted Scandinavian collaborators, with their third studio album

Added: 20/03/2009
6.8

Rachel Zeffira

The Deserters

Canadian classically-trained soprano and multi-instrumentalist, who was one half of Cat’s Eyes with Horrors frontman Faris Badwan, with a debut album of baroque pop

Added: 10/12/2012
6.8

Princess Nokia

Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks

Simultaneous release for two albums from the New York rapper Destiny Frasqueri

Added: 02/03/2020
6.8

Papercuts

Life Among the Savages

Album no. 6 from the San Francisco indie pop group led by Jason Robert Quever

Added: 08/05/2014
6.8

Paolo Nutini

Sunny Side Up

Pop / soul on the second album from the Scottish singer-songwriter

Added: 29/05/2009
6.8

Oscar

Cut and Paste

Debut album of indie pop from the Londoner

Added: 18/05/2016
6.8

Omni

Multi-task

Second album of indie post-punk from the Atlanta, GA trio

Added: 22/09/2017
6.8

Omni

Networker

Third album of indie post-punk from the Atlanta, Georgia trio

Added: 01/11/2019
6.8

Obits

Beds & Bugs

The Brooklyn-based band led by guitarist and vocalist Rick Froberg wqith their 3rd album of garage punk

Added: 10/09/2013
6.8

Mykki Blanco

Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep

Mini album from the Orange County-born rapper, performance artist, poet and activist produced by FaltyDL

Added: 18/06/2021
6.8

Mourn

Ha, Ha, He.

Second album from the Catalonian punk band fronted by Carla Pérez Vas

Added: 03/06/2016
6.8

Minor Victories

Minor Victories

A collaborative project featuring members of Mogwai, Slowdive, and Editors

Added: 01/06/2016
6.8

Mike Wexler

Dispossession

Second album from the Brooklyn singer-songwriter who blends folk, jazz, psychedelia, synths and more

Added: 25/03/2012
6.8

Micachu & The Shapes

Chopped & Screwed

Second album of experimental leftfield pop from Mica Levi recorded live with The London Sinfonietta

Added: 25/03/2011
6.8

Metallica

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Tenth studio record from the metal stalwarts, a double album

Added: 17/11/2016
6.8

Merchandise

After The End

Self-recorded third LP from the Floridian three piece, mixed with the help of Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, These New Puritans, Grizzly Bear)

Added: 21/08/2014
6.8

Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley

Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection

Collaboration between Virgia-based producer and founder of Spacebomb Records Matthew E. White and the Alabama experimental musician Holley

Added: 09/04/2021
6.8

Manic Street Preachers

Resistance Is Futile

Album number thirteen from the Welsh indie rock band produced by Dave Eringa (Idlewild, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey)

Added: 05/04/2018
6.8

Madness

Can't Touch Us Now

Eleventh studio album from the London 2 tone pioneers

Added: 27/10/2016
6.8

Lucius

Second Nature

Fourth album from the Brooklyn indie-pop five piece fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig

Added: 08/04/2022
6.8

Laura Gibson

Empire Builder

Fourth album from the Oregon-born singer-songwriter

Added: 01/04/2016
6.8

L.A. Witch

L.A. Witch

Debut album from the Los Angeles garage rock three-piece

Added: 11/09/2017
6.8

Kwabs

Love + War

Debut album from British soul singer Kwabena Sarkodee Adjepong

Added: 11/09/2015
6.8

Kurt Vile

So Outta Reach

This Philadelphean releases an EP of heartland rock to follow up his acclaimed 2010 LP, Smoke Ring For My Halo

Added: 07/11/2011
6.8

Kathleen Edwards

Voyageur

Fourth album of alt country from the Ottawa, Ontario singer-songwiter co-produced by Justin Vernon

Added: 06/01/2012
6.8

Jess Williamson

Cosmic Wink

Third album from the Texas-born, LA-based singer-songwriter

Added: 13/05/2018
6.8

JEFF The Brotherhood

We Are the Champions

Sixth studio album of low-fi indie rock from Nashville brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall

Added: 12/07/2011
6.8

Jaill

That's How We Burn

Second album of psych-pop / surf rock from Milwaukee four-piece

Added: 30/07/2010
6.8

iamamiwhoami

Blue

Third album from Jonna Lee's audiovisual synthpop project

Added: 12/11/2014
6.8

Hype Williams

One Nation

Third album of lo-fi experimental psych pop from Berlin-based Anglo-Estonian duo

Added: 24/03/2011

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