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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

Machine Gun Kelly

Tickets To My Downfall

Fifth album from the Texas-born pop-punk rapper produced by Blink-182's drummer Travis Barker

Added: 28/09/2020
6.6

Lorn

Nothing Else

Dub, techno and IDM and more on producer Marcos Ortega's debut full-length for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label

Added: 16/06/2010
6.6

Let's Wrestle

Nursing Home

Second album from the London based indie rock three piece produced by Steve Albini

Added: 16/05/2011
6.6

Kyle Craft

Full Circle Nightmare

Second studio album of southern indie rock from the 29 year old singer-songwriter based in Portland, Oregon

Added: 06/02/2018
6.6

Kele

2042

Fourth studio album from the Bloc Party frontman produced by Gethin Pearson

Added: 08/11/2019
6.6

John Harle & Marc Almond

The Tyburn Tree - Dark London

Collaboration between the composer, conductor and producer Harle and the former Soft Cell singer Almond that looks at the dark underbelly of historic London

Added: 21/02/2014
6.6

Jeffrey Lewis

A Turn In The Dream Songs

Latest album from this New York singer-songwriter and comic book artist

Added: 09/10/2011
6.6

Harper Simon

Division Street

The son of Paul Simon with a second album of melodic indie rock

Added: 27/03/2013
6.6

Guided By Voices

English Little League

20th album from Robert Pollard's alternative rock outfit from Dayton, Ohio

Added: 01/05/2013
6.6

Gregg Allman

Low Country Blues

Solo album from the Nashville rock and blues musician and founding member of The Allman Brothers

Added: 06/02/2011
6.6

Giant Giant Sand

Tucson: A Country Rock Opera

Latest from the alt country veterans led by Howe Gelb is a self-proclaimed country rock opera

Added: 14/06/2012
6.6

Ed Harcourt

Back Into The Woods

The London chamber pop singer-songwriter with his 7th studio album, recorded in 6 hours in Abbey Road studio

Added: 26/02/2013
6.6

Chromeo

Head Over Heels

Album number five from David Macklovitch (Dave 1) and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg), the Montreal-based electro-funk duo

Added: 18/06/2018
6.6

Chris Cohen

As If Apart

Second album of psychedelic indie from the LA singer-songwriter

Added: 06/05/2016
6.6

Cheap Trick

In Another World

Twentieth full-length studio album from the rock band was produced by Julian Raymond (Glen Canpbell, Hank Williams Jr, The Suicide Machines)

Added: 09/04/2021
6.6

Broken Records

Until The Earth Begins To Part

Scottish seven-piece alt.folk-rock act with their debut album

Added: 11/06/2009
6.6

Bonny Doon

Longwave

Second album from the Detroit-based indie rock quartet

Added: 28/03/2018
6.6

Bloc Party

Four

After focusing on side projects the London indie rock quartet return with their fourth album

Added: 14/08/2012
6.6

Bleachers

Bleachers

Fourth album from producer Jack Antonoff's New York-based indie pop project featuring guest appearances from Lana Del Rey, Aaron Dessner, Kevin Abstract and Florence Welch

Added: 08/03/2024
6.6

Aurora

All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

Debut album from Norwegian teenager Aurora Aksnes, who covered Oasis' Half The World Away for 2015's John Lewis Christmas ad

Added: 11/03/2016
6.6

Wiley

100% Publishing

Seventh album of grime rap from the incredibly prolific Londoner, who has another album on the way this year

Added: 16/06/2011
6.6

Wild Nothing

Empty Estate

Seven-track EP release from Virginia's Jack Tatum, this time blending psychedelic synthpop and indie rock

Added: 16/05/2013
6.6

The Raveonettes

In And Out Of Control

Danish duo with their fourth album of garage rock, post-punk and harmonies

Added: 06/10/2009
6.6

The Boxer Rebellion

The Cold Still

Third album form the London alternative rockers

Added: 04/02/2011
6.6

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down

Know Better Learn Faster

Second indie pop / anti-folk collaboration between US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down

Added: 08/01/2010
6.6

Social Distortion

Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes

Seventh studio album from the Californian punk rock veterans

Added: 18/01/2011
6.6

Seams

Quarters

First full-length release from Berlin-based British producer Jamie Welch, dealing in electronica and understated dance

Added: 24/09/2013
6.6

Savages & Bo Ningen

Words To The Blind

Recording of a 37-minute, Dada-inspired concert consisting of one song played simultaneously by the UK post punk band and the London-based Japanese psych rockers

Added: 20/11/2014
6.6

Sally Shapiro

Somewhere Else

The Swedish singer and her writer/producer partner Johan Agebjörn with a 3rd album of synthpop and indie pop

Added: 26/02/2013
6.6

Robert Pollard

Blazing Gentlemen

Solo album number twenty, and second of 2013, from the hyper-productive singer-songwriter and frontman of the reformed Guided By Voices

Added: 06/12/2013

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