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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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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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6.7

R. Kelly

Write Me Back

70s soul provides the inspiration for the 11th album from the R&B singer and producer

Added: 26/06/2012
6.7

Quasimoto

Yessir Whatever

Third album of alternative hip hop from Madlib's squeaky-voiced animated alter ego

Added: 29/07/2013
6.7

Pure X

Angel

Austin outfit's third album of lo-fi indie rock, recorded over five days in a 100 year old Texan dance hall

Added: 15/04/2014
6.7

Pop. 1280

Paradise

Third album from the Brooklyn cyberpunk quartet named after Jim Thompson's 1964 novel

Added: 08/02/2016
6.7

Plaid

The Digging Remedy

Ninth full-length studio album from the London-based electronic techno duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley

Added: 14/06/2016
6.7

Picastro

You

Fifth full-length release from the Toronto trio specialising in experimental indie rock and avant folk

Added: 14/02/2014
6.7

Phantogram

Three

Third album from Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, the New York-based dream pop duo

Added: 30/09/2016
6.7

Peggy Sue

Vices

Fourth album from Brighton-based alt.folk trio led by Rosa Slade and Katy Young

Added: 27/02/2020
6.7

Open Mike Eagle

Dark Comedy

Fourth album from the Chicago born rapper, now based in LA and member of the hip hop collective Project Blowed

Added: 20/06/2014
6.7

of Montreal

Lousy with Sylvianbriar

More quirky indie pop and offbeat funk-laced rock from the long-standing Georgia band led by Kevin Barnes

Added: 08/10/2013
6.7

Noisettes

Contact

Third album from the British duo, with retro R&B and jazz-tinged pop soul

Added: 26/08/2012
6.7

Nina Nesbitt

The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change

Second album from the Swedish-Scottish pop star produced by Lostboy, Jordan Riley and Fraser T. Smith

Added: 05/02/2019
6.7

Nathaniel Rateliff

And It's Still Alright

First solo release in six years from the St. Louis, Missouri singer-songwriter co-produced with James Barone and Patrick Meese

Added: 14/02/2020
6.7

Nat Baldwin

In The Hollows

Dirty Projectors bassist releases his follow up to 2011's People Changes, with songs built on the double bass

Added: 08/05/2014
6.7

Nap Eyes

Thought Rock Fish Scale

Second album from the Nova Scotia band fronted by singer-songwriter Nigel Chapman

Added: 05/02/2016
6.7

Nails

Abandon All Life

Second outing from the California extreme punk / death metal / grindcore quartet, recorded at Godcity with Kurt Ballou

Added: 17/04/2013
6.7

Moby

Reprise

Nineteenth album from the New York electronic musician features orchestral and acoustic arrangements of songs from his career

Added: 30/05/2021
6.7

Milosh

Jet Lag

Downtempo electronic soul on the latest solo release from Rhye singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Milosh, co-produced with his new wife, the actress Alexa Nikolas

Added: 13/12/2013
6.7

Max Jury

Max Jury

Debut album from the Des Moines, Iowa piano playing singer-songwriter

Added: 07/06/2016
6.7

Mary J Blige

Strength Of A Woman

Album number fourteen from the New York City R&B singer includes contributions from Kanye West, Quavo, DJ Khaled and Missy Elliott

Added: 28/04/2017
6.7

Madeline Kenney

Night Night at the First Landing

Debut full-length album from the West Coast singer-writer produced by Toro y Moi's Chaz Bear

Added: 01/09/2017
6.7

Mac Miller

Go:od Am

Third studio LP from the Pittsburgh rapper features guest appearances by Ab-Soul, Lil B and Little Dragon

Added: 21/09/2015
6.7

Luke Haines

Smash the System

Latest album from the alt-rock singer-songwriter and his first non-concept album since 2009’s 21st Century Man

Added: 07/10/2016
6.7

Lala Lala

I Want The Door To Open

Third full-length album from the Chicago-based singer-songwriter

Added: 14/10/2021
6.7

Kylesa

From the Vaults Vol.1

Reworkings of unreleased material plus cover versions from the Georgia psychedelic sludge merchants

Added: 11/12/2012
6.7

Kelly Clarkson

Meaning Of Life

Eighth studio album from the pop/rock singer and American Idol winner

Added: 27/10/2017
6.7

Juliana Hatfield

Weird

Seventeenth studio album by American alt-rock singer-songwriter. Hatfield is joined on this self-produced album by Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Sunshine Boys) and Todd Philips (Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three)

Added: 29/01/2019
6.7

John Paul White

Beulah

Second solo album from the former member of The Civil Wars and first since their acrimonious split

Added: 19/08/2016
6.7

John Fogerty

Wrote A Song For Everyone

The latest solo album from the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman sees him revisit some classic recordings as well as two new songs

Added: 28/05/2013
6.7

Indians

Somewhere Else

Synth-heavy indie pop on the debut from Copenhagen-based Søren Løkke Juul

Added: 23/01/2013

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