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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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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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6.6

M. Ward

Think Of Spring

Eleventh album, and second of 2020, from the Californian indie/folk singer-songwriter is a Billie Holiday covers album

Added: 10/12/2020
6.6

Lyle Lovett

Release Me

A set of covers and originals from Texan alt.country singer-songwriter

Added: 29/02/2012
6.6

Lyla Foy

Mirrors the Sky

Self-produced debut album from the London-based singer-songwriter who previously worked under the name WALL

Added: 18/03/2014
6.6

Lionlimb

Tape Recorder

Second album from the Nashville-based duo Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger who are also Angel Olsen’s backing band

Added: 26/02/2018
6.6

Lil Peep

Everybody's Everything

Second posthumous release from the New York rapper features collaborations with Era, Gab3, iLoveMakonnen, Lil Tracy, and Rich the Kid

Added: 18/11/2019
6.6

Lauv

All 4 Nothing

Second full-length album from the San Francisco-born singer-songwriter who previously wrote songs for Backstreet Boys, Charli XCX, and Celine Dion

Added: 05/08/2022
6.6

L.A. Takedown

II

Second LP from Aaron M. Olson's instrumental seven-piece

Added: 11/05/2017
6.6

Julian Lynch

Lines

The University of Wisconsin ethnomusicology PhD student, multi-instrumentalist and prdocuer with a 4th collection of experimental pop and folk-inspired ambient recordings

Added: 27/03/2013
6.6

Johnny Foreigner

You Can Do Better

Album no 5 from the Birmingham-based 'fight pop' four piece

Added: 26/03/2014
6.6

Jesca Hoop

Undress

The Californian singer-songwriter releases a set of acoustic rearrangements of old material, including duets with Guy Garvey and Erika Wennerstrom

Added: 31/03/2014
6.6

Jamie Lidell

Building a Beginning

A self-released seventh album from the English soul singer based in Nashville, Tennessee

Added: 14/10/2016
6.6

Icona Pop

This Is... Icona Pop

Second album and first international release from Swedish electropop duo Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo

Added: 24/09/2013
6.6

iamamiwhoami

bounty

Swedish synthpop duo Jonna Lee and Claes Björklund with a collection of songs put out on YouTube before their 2012 debut album Kin

Added: 20/06/2013
6.6

Guadalupe Plata

Guadalupe Plata

Fourth album from the Spanish psych-rock trio recorded live to eight track tape

Added: 13/01/2016
6.6

Future Bible Heroes

Partygoing

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt reconvenes his indie pop side project alongside Christopher Ewen and singer Claudia Gonson

Added: 11/07/2013
6.6

Flyte

This Is Really Going To Hurt

Second album from the London indie-rock trio recorded in Los Angeles produced by Andro Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver) and Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen)

Added: 09/04/2021
6.6

Fifth Harmony

7/27

Second studio album from the X Factor USA 2012 winners, with guest appearances from Ty Dolla Sign, Fetty Wap, and Missy Elliott

Added: 02/06/2016
6.6

Eternal Tapestry

Wild Strawberries

A double album from the Portland psych-rockers, with track names taken from the flora surrounding their recording space

Added: 10/03/2015
6.6

DMA’s

For Now

Second album from the Sydney alt. rock trio

Added: 27/04/2018
6.6

Destruction Unit

Negative Feedback Resistor

Third album from the Arizona-based metal, punk, and space rock act fronted by Jay Reatard collaborator Ryan Roussreau

Added: 24/09/2015
6.6

Death From Above

Outrage! Is Now

Third album from the legendary Toronto dance punk duo reverting to their original name, minus the "1979" sufix

Added: 08/09/2017
6.6

Death And Vanilla

To Where the Wild Things Are

Third full-length release from the Swedish dream-pop trio

Added: 07/05/2015
6.6

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers

Imposter

Third collaboration between the Depeche Mode frontman and the English electronic duo

Added: 15/11/2021
6.6

Darkstar

Foam Island

Third album of electro-pop/dubstep from the London-based trio

Added: 28/09/2015
6.6

Dälek

Asphalt For Eden

Seventh album from the Newark, NJ alt hip hop trio

Added: 22/04/2016
6.6

Camila Cabello

Camila

Debut solo album from the Cuban-born pop singer and first release since leaving Fifth Harmony

Added: 14/01/2018
6.6

Brian Eno

Drums Between The Bells

Latest collection of soundscapes from the ambient composer, accompanied by spoken word passages from "contemporary thinker" Rick Holland

Added: 28/06/2011
6.6

Black Pus

All My Relations

Latest noise pop outing for Brian Chippendale, drummer with noise rock duo Lightning Bolt, and his first on Thrill Jockey

Added: 05/04/2013
6.6

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Panic Blooms

Sixth album from the Pittsburg experimental electronica group fronted by the vocalist known as Tobacco

Added: 03/05/2018
6.6

Bill Wells & Friends

Nursery Rhymes

Collaborative album of reworked nursery rhymes from the revered Scottish jazz musician, including appearances from Yo La Tengo, Isobel Campbell, Norman Blake and Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki

Added: 25/11/2015

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