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6 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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6.6

Years & Years

Night Call

Third album from the London-based electropop artist and actor Olly Alexander and first as a solo project

Added: 21/01/2022
6.6

Wild Pink

A Billion Little Lights

Third full-length album from the New York City indie rock trio

Added: 19/02/2021
6.6

We Have Band

WHB

Debut album of dance rock and electro-pop from The London trio

Added: 01/04/2010
6.6

Tropical Fuck Storm

Deep States

Third album from the Melbourne art-punk band led by ex-The Drones members Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin

Added: 24/08/2021
6.6

Tripwires

Spacehopper

Psychedelic indie rock from the Reading-based band on their full-length debut

Added: 25/06/2013
6.6

Titus Andronicus

An Obelisk

Sixth album from Patrick Stickles' New Jersey punk band

Added: 20/06/2019
6.6

Throwing Up

Over You

Full-length debut album from London punk debut on Tim Burgess' O Genesis Records

Added: 19/07/2013
6.6

They Might Be Giants

Join Us

Latest album from the Brooklyn alt.rock veterans formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell

Added: 18/07/2011
6.6

The Vaccines

Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations

Sixth album from the West London indie rock band led by Justin Young and first since the departure of guitarist Freddie Cowan

Added: 12/01/2024
6.6

The Smashing Pumpkins

Atum

Twelfth full-length release from the alternative rock band is a 33-track rock opera/concept album

Added: 11/05/2023
6.6

The Raveonettes

Observator

The Danish duo made their new album in just a few weeks, adding piano to their fuzzed up nostalgic indie pop

Added: 11/09/2012
6.6

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Days Of Abandon

Third album from the New York indie pop band fronted by Kip Berman and featuring a new line-up

Added: 14/05/2014
6.6

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Musique de film imaginé

The San Fran neo-psych group's 14th album is the soundtrack to an imaginary French movie

Added: 28/04/2015
6.6

Suuns

Felt

Fourth studio album from the avant-garde Montreal four-piece

Added: 28/02/2018
6.6

San Fermin

Jackrabbit

Second album of post-rock / chamber-pop from the Brooklyn composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone

Added: 21/04/2015
6.6

Salvia Plath

The Bardo Story

Psych-folk from the Baltimore-based former freight train hopper, who previously released work under the name Run DMT

Added: 24/07/2013
6.6

Ryan Adams

1989

The alt-country singer-songwriter's track-by-track interpretation of the Taylor Swift album

Added: 24/09/2015
6.6

Ron Sexsmith

Long Player Late Bloomer

12th album of melancholic pop / folk from Canadian singer-sonwriter

Added: 25/02/2011
6.6

Rhett Miller

Dreamer

Fifth solo album from the frontman of Texas alt country band Old 97's

Added: 13/06/2012
6.6

Playboi Carti

Whole Lotta Red

Second album from the Atlanta rapper Jordan Terrell Carter, with guests including Future, Kanye West and Kid Cudi

Added: 08/01/2021
6.6

Personal Trainer

Still Willing

Second album from the Dutch indie rock collective led by Willem Smit

Added: 05/08/2024
6.6

Osees

Protean Threat

Twenty-third album of psyched-out garage rock from the San Francisco band and first under their second name change

Added: 18/09/2020
6.6

Olafur Arnalds

For Now I Am Winter

Third album from the Icelandic neo-classical multi-intrumentalist, composer and producer, with orchestration assistance from Nico Muhly

Added: 02/04/2013
6.6

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

First solo album from the former Oasis mainman is a more alt.rock / acoustic affair

Added: 10/10/2011
6.6

Migos

Culture III

Fourth album from the Lawrenceville, Georgia rap trio features guest appearances from Drake, Cardi B, Polo G, Future and Justin Bieber

Added: 16/06/2021
6.6

Merchandise

Totale Nite

The Florida band follow up 2012's widely-admired Children of Desire with another collection of krautrock, goth and 80s post-punk inspired tracks

Added: 22/04/2013
6.6

Meatbodies

Meatbodies

Debut from the Californian garage punk band led by Chad Ubovish who has worked with Mikal Cronin and Ty Segall

Added: 21/10/2014
6.6

Mark Knopfler

Down The Road Whenever

Ninth solo studio album by British guitar icon

Added: 16/11/2018
6.6

Mark Knopfler

One Deep River

Tenth solo studio album and first in six years from the former Dire Straits lead guitarist

Added: 17/04/2024
6.6

Makeness

Loud Patterns

Debut full-length from the Scottish electronic producer Kyle Molleson who's also a member of London-based art-pop quartet Glad Hand

Added: 06/04/2018

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