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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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6.8

Old Crow Medicine Show

Carry Me Back

The fourth studio album from this old-timey bluegrass outfit from Virginia

Added: 19/07/2012
6.8

MEN

Talk About Body

Debut album of electro pop from Brooklyn-based collective led by Le Tigre's JD Samson

Added: 31/01/2011
6.8

Matias Aguayo

The Visitor

The Chilean-born, Cologne-based producer's 3rd full-length release, blending electronica, world music, techno and psychedelia

Added: 26/06/2013
6.8

Lightspeed Champion

Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You

Second indie pop solo release from the former Test Icles leader

Added: 29/01/2010
6.8

Les Sins

Michael

Toro y Moi's Chaz Bundick branches out with the first release of a largely instrumental dance music side project

Added: 04/11/2014
6.8

Ladytron

Gravity The Seducer

Fifth album of electronic pop from the Liverpudlian quartet, once described by Brian Eno as "the best of English pop music."

Added: 08/09/2011
6.8

Jason Lytle

Dept. Of Disappearance

Second solo release from the indie rock singer-songwriter and former Grandaddy frontman

Added: 16/10/2012
6.8

Hazel English

Wake UP!

Debut album from the Sydney-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter produced by Justin Raisen and Ben H. Allen

Added: 23/04/2020
6.8

Fear of Men

Fall Forever

Second LP from the Brighton-based dream pop band founded by Jessica Weiss and Daniel Falvey

Added: 03/06/2016
6.8

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

Choir Of The Mind

Second album of piano-driven pop under the Soft Skeleton name from the Metric singer and Broken Social Scene member

Added: 15/09/2017
6.8

DIANA

Perpetual Surrender

Debut album from the Toronto quartet, dealing in 80s-inspired synthpop

Added: 14/08/2013
6.8

Clark

Iradelphic

Latest album of electronic compositions from Chris Clark, who meticulously samples live drums for his beats

Added: 02/04/2012
6.8

Brandt Brauer Frick

Miami

Third album from the Berlin-based experimental electronica trio

Added: 13/03/2013
6.8

Avril Lavigne

Love Sux

Seventh studio album from the Canadian singer featuring collaborations with Machine Gun Kelly, Blackbear and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182

Added: 25/02/2022
6.8

At The Drive-In

in•ter a•li•a

The fourth studio album and first for 17 years from the Texas post-hardcore rock band produced by Rich Costey and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Added: 01/05/2017
6.8

Ash

Kablammo!

Sixth LP from the Irish alt-rockers, their first full album since 2007

Added: 25/05/2015
6.8

AlunaGeorge

Body Music

Debut album from electronic / R&B duo Aluna Francis and producer George Reid who were second in the BBC Sound of 2013 list

Added: 23/07/2013
6.8

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

IX

Ninth album from the Austin post-hardcore band fronted alternately by Jason Reece and Conrad Keely

Added: 20/10/2014
6.8

Tokyo Police Club

Champ

Second album of post punk indie rock from the Ontario, Canada quartet

Added: 16/06/2010
6.8

Thee Oh Sees

Castlemania

12th full length album of psyechedelic garage rock from John Dwyer's solo guise, now a fully formed band

Added: 08/06/2011
6.8

The Streets

None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive

Mixtape from Birmingham-born rapper Mike Skinner and his first release for nine years

Added: 09/07/2020
6.8

Teengirl Fantasy

Tracer

Chilled electronic dream pop on the 2nd album from Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi, featuring contributions from Panda Bear and others

Added: 16/08/2012
6.8

Mister Heavenly

Out Of Love

Experimental indie pop/rock (self-termed as doom-wop) on the debut from the supergroup comprising Ryan Kattner (Man Man), Nick Thorburn (Islands, The Unicorns) and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse)

Added: 16/08/2011
6.8

Metric

Synthetica

The fifth studio album from this New Wave indebted group from Toronto, Canada

Added: 12/06/2012
6.8

Marina And The Diamonds

The Family Jewels

Debut release of assorted pop stylings from the much-hyped Welsh singer and former actress

Added: 04/02/2010
6.8

Justice

Woman

Third album from the French electro-pop duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay

Added: 17/11/2016
6.8

Joey Bada$$

B4.Da.$$

Debut studio album from the Brooklyn rapper and co-founder of the hip-hop collective Pro Era

Added: 19/01/2015
6.8

Haim

Something To Tell You

Second studio album from the LA pop rock trio Este, Danielle and Alana Haim

Added: 03/07/2017
6.8

Groove Armada

Black Light

Sixth album from dance duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, plus a plethora of star guests

Added: 21/02/2010
6.8

Erland And The Carnival

Nightingale

Second album of folk-rock / psychedelia from the London trio fronted by former Verve guitarist Simon Tong

Added: 03/03/2011

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