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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

The Hold Steady

Teeth Dreams

Album number six from the Brooklyn-based indie rock five-piece led by raconteur Craig Finn

Added: 23/03/2014
6.8

The Dead Weather

Horehound

Debut from the alt.rock supergroup comprising Jack White, the Kills singer, the Queens of the Stone Age guitarist and the Raconteurs bassplayer

Added: 09/07/2009
6.8

The 1975

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

Second album from Manchester-based indie rock / pop quartet

Added: 25/02/2016
6.8

Temples

Volcano

Second album from the Kettering, Northamptonshire psychedelic quartet self-produced in their home studio

Added: 01/03/2017
6.8

Tamaryn

Tender New Signs

The San Francisco-based duo with a 2nd album of what is variously described as shoegaze, nu-gaze, dream-gaze or dark-gaze

Added: 15/10/2012
6.8

Sufjan Stevens

The Greatest Gift

A mixtape of Carrie & Lowell outtakes and remixes from the indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 24/11/2017
6.8

Soulsavers

The Light The Dead See

Fourth album of dark, downtempo electronica and rock from the production and remix maestros featuring Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan

Added: 25/05/2012
6.8

Sleeping States

In The Gardens Of The North

Literary, avant-garde, and acoustic experimental songs on the second album from Markland Starkie's one-man project

Added: 15/08/2009
6.8

Simian Mobile Disco

Delicacies

Third studio album of electronic house from the London duo, with every track named after an exotic foodstuff

Added: 30/11/2010
6.8

Serengeti

Family & Friends

Latest collection of literate rap from the Chicago artist

Added: 20/07/2011
6.8

Rufus Wainwright

All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu

Sixth studio album from the Montreal-based singer-songwriter features only his piano and voice

Added: 31/03/2010
6.8

Rudimental

Home

Debut album from the East London drum'n'bass quartet, incorporating soul, R&B and garage

Added: 30/04/2013
6.8

Porcelain Raft

Permanent Signal

Italian-born, London-raised, New York-based multi-instrumentalist releases his second album of atmospheric electronica

Added: 19/08/2013
6.8

Passion Pit

Kindred

Third album from the Cambridge, Massachusetts electro / indie dance pop outfit led by Michael Angelakos

Added: 17/04/2015
6.8

Odd Future

The OF Tape Vol.2

Debut studio album from the LA hip-hip collective led by rapper Tyler, The Creator

Added: 22/03/2012
6.8

OCS

Memory of a Cut Off Head

The garage rock group fronted by John Dwyer and formerly known as Thee Oh Sees and Oh Sees revert back to their original name, OCS for their 20th album

Added: 17/11/2017
6.8

Mas Ysa

Seraph

Debut album from Montreal-born, Brooklyn-based synthpop artist Thomas Arsenault

Added: 24/07/2015
6.8

Marques Toliver

Land Of CanAan

Debut album from multi-instrumentalist and former busker who has worked with Grizzly Bear, Damon Albarn and Wild Beasts

Added: 16/05/2013
6.8

Little Scream

The Golden Record

Recorded with members of Arcade Fire and The National, the debut album from Montreal-based Laurel Sprengelmeyer, ranging from psych to folk and art rock

Added: 13/04/2011
6.8

Keaton Henson

Birthdays

Second album from English singer-songwriter produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, The Strokes)

Added: 15/02/2013
6.8

K-X-P

K-X-P

Debut album that mixes electronic and krautrock from Finnish trio fronted by Annie's producer Timo Kaukolampi

Added: 26/07/2010
6.8

Joan As Police Woman

The Classic

Connecticut indie singer-songwriter Joan Wasser switches to retro-soul on her 4th full-length release

Added: 07/03/2014
6.8

Jagwar Ma

Every Now & Then

Second album of psychedelic dance from the Australian trio, follow up to 2013's Howlin'

Added: 13/10/2016
6.8

Ital

Hive Mind

Onetime producer of brutal electronica as Sex Worker, Daniel Martin McCormick has now turned to house, under his latest guise as Ital

Added: 15/02/2012
6.8

Horse Thief

Fear in Bliss

Debut album of alt country-tinged indie from the Oklahoma City residents, produced by Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver)

Added: 15/04/2014
6.8

Future Islands

In Evening Air

Second album of electronic pop from Baltimore. Maryland three-piece

Added: 09/05/2010
6.8

Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

The Glasgow band's third offering of danceable post-punk revival rock with added electronica

Added: 22/01/2009
6.8

Eels

Extreme Witchcraft

Album number fourteen from the California indie rock band led by Mark Oliver Everett

Added: 26/01/2022
6.8

Cage The Elephant

Social Cues

Fifth album from the Kentucky indie rock five-piece produced by John Hill (MIA, Empire Of The Sun, Santigold)

Added: 17/04/2019
6.8

Bodega

Broken Equipment

Second album from the Brooklyn-based art punks

Added: 10/03/2022

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