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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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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

Eels

The Deconstruction

Album number twelve from the California indie rock band led by Mark Oliver Everett produced by Mickey Petralia (Flight of the Conchords, Linkin Park, Beck)

Added: 04/04/2018
6.6

Boots

Aquaria

Debut full-length album from the producer, singer and rapper Jordan Asher who's worked with Beyoncé, FKA Twigs and Run the Jewels

Added: 12/11/2015
6.6

The Streets

Computers & Blues

Fifth and final album of hip-hop / garage from Birmingham-born rapper Mike Skinner

Added: 31/01/2011
6.6

The Smashing Pumpkins

Monuments To An Elegy

Ninth studio album from the Chicago alt.rock band and features Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums

Added: 04/12/2014
6.6

Craig Finn

Clear Heart Full Eyes

First solo outing for the Hold Steady frontman

Added: 18/01/2012
6.6

Chvrches

Love Is Dead

Third album from the Glasgow synthpop trio produced by Greg Kurstin (Sia, Beck, Kelly Clarkson, Tegan and Sara, Foo Fighters)

Added: 24/05/2018
6.6

Broken Bells

After the Disco

Second record of dancey, spacey indie rock from Danger Mouse and James Mercer of The Shins

Added: 24/01/2014
6.6

Zoey Van Goey

The Cage Was Unlocked All Along

Debut release from the Glasgow-based indie pop trio

Added: 27/11/2009
6.6

You Say Party! We Say Die!

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Third album of dance-punk from the Canadian band whose drummer died on April 18, 2010, after collapsing onstage

Added: 24/05/2010
6.6

White Noise Sound

White Noise Sound

Debut album of psych rock / shoegaze / krautrock from Swansea sextet produced by Spacemen 3's Pete Kember

Added: 17/01/2011
6.6

We Were Promised Jetpacks

The Last Place You’ll Look

EP follow-up to the much-praised debut album These Four Walls from the Scottish indie-rock four-piece

Added: 12/04/2010
6.6

Wallis Bird

Wallis Bird

Third album of rockabilly and folk from this Irish singer-songwriter

Added: 16/03/2012
6.6

Vic Chesnutt

At the Cut

American folk-rock singer-songwriter teamed up with Montreal post-rockers Thee Silver Mt Zion on his latest

Added: 21/10/2009
6.6

Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

The Night Creeper

Fourth album from the Cambridge psychedelic rock four-piece, a concept album based on a fictional pulp horror film

Added: 03/09/2015
6.6

Tricky

Mixed Race

Ninth studio album from the Bristol trip hop producer

Added: 15/09/2010
6.6

Trentemøller

Into The Great Wide Yonder

Third album of electronica, techno and minimal from the Danish producer

Added: 08/06/2010
6.6

Tobacco

Maniac Meat

Second outing for the Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman's cosmic hip hop alter ego

Added: 02/06/2010
6.6

Times New Viking

Born Again Revisited

Latest installment of lo-fi noise pop from the Ohio outfit

Added: 01/10/2009
6.6

The Young Veins

Take A Vacation!

60s pop, psychedelia and vintage garage on the debut from former Panic At The Disco! men Ryan Ross and Jon Walker

Added: 06/07/2010
6.6

The Young

Dub Egg

The second album from this lo-fi psychedelic garage rock troupe from Austin, TX

Added: 25/06/2012
6.6

The Watson Twins

Talking to You, Talking to Me

Second release of soul and jazz inflected retro pop from the onetime Jenny Lewis backing singers

Added: 07/02/2010
6.6

The View

Ropewalk

Fifth album from the Dundee indie rockers, produced by The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr

Added: 11/09/2015
6.6

The Staves and yMusic

The Way Is Read

Collaboration between the English indie folk trio and the New York chamber sextet

Added: 08/12/2017
6.6

The Men

Devil Music

Sixth studio album from the Brooklyn post-hardcore punk five-piece

Added: 22/11/2016
6.6

The Men

Mercy

Eighth studio album from the Brooklyn post-hardcore punk five-piece was recorded live

Added: 20/02/2020
6.6

The Little Willies

For The Good Times

Second album of country covers from the collective fronted by Norah Jones

Added: 08/01/2012
6.6

The Ladybug Transistor

Clutching Stems

Seventh album from the Brooklyn-based indie pop quintet

Added: 06/07/2011
6.6

The King Khan & BBQ Show

Invisible Girl

Canadian garage rock duo with their third album of punk doo-wop

Added: 02/12/2009
6.6

The Juan MacLean

Everybody Get Close

Rarities, unreleased tracks and remixes on this collection from the influential electronica and techno producer and DFA cohort

Added: 15/11/2011
6.6

The Joy Formidable

Into The Blue

Fifth self-released studio album by Welsh indie rock trio recorded in Utah

Added: 24/08/2021

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