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7 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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Albums to watch

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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6.7

Karl Blau

Out Her Space

Latest release from the experimental indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist backed by Matthew E. White's Spacebomb House Band

Added: 21/11/2017
6.7

Jon Porras

Light Divide

Five-track fourth album of abstract electronic music from the Barn Owl multi-instrumentalist

Added: 21/03/2014
6.7

Hot Panda

Go Outside

The third album to be released by this Canadian indie rock band, who have a tendency towards the humourous

Added: 19/07/2012
6.7

Here We Go Magic

Here We Go Magic

Debut album from Seattle singer-songwriter Luke Temple

Added: 01/08/2009
6.7

HEALTH

Rat Wars

Sixth studio album from the Los Angeles-based experimental noise pop trio prodcued by Stint (Gallant, Carly Rae Jepsen, Demi Lovato)

Added: 08/12/2023
6.7

Hauschka

Foreign Landscapes

Seventh album of avante-garde electronic music from Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann

Added: 27/10/2010
6.7

Half Moon Run

Sun Leads Me On

Second album from the Montreal indie act, produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele)

Added: 23/10/2015
6.7

Guided By Voices

How Do You Spell Heaven

Second record this year from Robert Pollard's indie rock group

Added: 11/08/2017
6.7

Franz Ferdinand

Always Ascending

Fifth album from the Glasgow-based indie rock band and first since their change of line-up

Added: 07/02/2018
6.7

Fiction

The Big Other

Debut album of indie rock from London quintet

Added: 04/03/2013
6.7

Fenech-Soler

Fenech-Soler

Debut album of electropop from Peterborough quartet

Added: 04/10/2010
6.7

El Perro del Mar

Pale Fire

Fourth album of indie pop from Swedish singer-songwriter Sarah Assbring

Added: 13/11/2012
6.7

DM Stith

Pigeonheart

Second solo album from the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Added: 29/07/2016
6.7

Devendra Banhart

Ape in Pink Marble

Ninth studio album of alt indie folk from the Texas-born singer-songwriter/guitarist

Added: 23/09/2016
6.7

David Crosby

Lighthouse

Fifth solo album from the former Crosby, Stills and Nash man, co-written and produced by Snarky Puppy’s Michael League

Added: 27/10/2016
6.7

Cults

Offering

Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin's third studio album of indie pop/rock

Added: 06/10/2017
6.7

Classixx

Faraway Reach

Second album from LA production duo Michael David and Tyler Blake

Added: 03/06/2016
6.7

Circa Waves

Sad Happy

Fourth album from the Liverpool indie rock quartet

Added: 13/03/2020
6.7

Cibo Matto

Hotel Valentine

Third album and first since reforming in 2011 from the New York-based Japanese avant-pop duo released on Sean Lennon's label

Added: 11/02/2014
6.7

Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke

It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry

A collaboration between the two experimental electronic musicians, recorded in Japan in September 2015

Added: 30/06/2016
6.7

Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Big Moon Ritual

New blues / rock project from Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson

Added: 10/06/2012
6.7

Carter Tanton

Freeclouds

Second solo outing for the indie rock guitarist formerly with Tulsa who also plays with Lower Dens and Marissa Nadler

Added: 15/11/2011
6.7

Buraka Som Sistema

Komba

This Portugese quartet fuse techno beats with the African kuduro genre, birthing what is known as "progressive kuduro"

Added: 10/11/2011
6.7

British Sea Power

Valhalla Dancehall

Fifth album from the Brighton-based indie rock band

Added: 04/01/2011
6.7

Best Coast

Always Tomorrow

Fourth full-length album from the LA indie pop duo Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno

Added: 20/02/2020
6.7

Avenged Sevenfold

Hail to the King

The Californian metal band focus on classic heavy rock on their 6th full-length release

Added: 27/08/2013
6.7

Ashnikko

DEMIDEVIL

Debut mixtape from the London-based, North Carolina-born rapper features guest appearances from Grimes, Kelis and Princess Nokia

Added: 15/01/2021
6.7

Amanda Mair

Amanda Mair

Debut album from the teenage Swedish pop singer, produced by Philip Ekström of The Mary Onettes

Added: 08/06/2012
6.7

Africaine 808

Basar

Debut album from this new West African-influenced project by Berlin-based DJ Nomad, produced by Dirk Levers

Added: 20/02/2016
6.7

ABC

The Lexicon Of Love II

Thirty-four years on, Martin Fry's Sheffield new wave band release the sequel to their 1982 debut

Added: 27/05/2016

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