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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)

Highest Recent Ratings

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)

all time

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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6.5

Ducktails

The Flower Lane

Third release from Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile's indie pop side project, this time backed by New Jersey band Big Troubles and featuring a range of guests

Added: 24/01/2013
6.5

DMA’s

Hills End

Debut album from the Britpop-influenced Australian trio mixed by Oasis producer Mark “Spike” Stent

Added: 25/02/2016
6.5

Death Cab For Cutie

Thank You for Today

Ninth album from Ben Gibbard's indie rock group produced by Rich Costey (Muse, Biffy Clyro, Sigur Rós)

Added: 14/08/2018
6.5

David Gilmour

Rattle That Lock

Fourth solo album from the Pink Floyd Guitarist, produced by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera

Added: 18/09/2015
6.5

Cuco

Para Mi

Debut album from the LA-based producer, singer and song-writer Omar Banos

Added: 25/07/2019
6.5

Casiokids

Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen

Third album from the Bergen, Norway synthpop quartet

Added: 13/10/2011
6.5

California X

Nights In The Dark

Second album from the Amherst, Massachusetts indie rock quartet led by Lemuel Gurtowsky

Added: 14/01/2015
6.5

Bruno Mars

24K Magic

Third album from the big-selling Hawaiian pop singer-songwriter produced by Shampoo Press & Curl, with additional production by The Stereotypes

Added: 18/11/2016
6.5

Brian Fallon

Sleepwalkers

Second solo album of alt rock from The Gaslight Anthem singer/guitarist

Added: 09/02/2018
6.5

Brazos

Saltwater

Second helping of melodic indie rock / indie pop from Martin Crane, now working in Brooklyn with bassist Spencer Zahn and drummer Ian Chang

Added: 29/05/2013
6.5

Ash

Islands

Album number seven from the Northern Irish pop-rock trio, led by songwriter Tim Wheeler

Added: 17/05/2018
6.5

About Group

Between The Walls

Third release of improvised jazz rock and electronic pop from the group featuring Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Spiritualized’s John Coxon and This Heat drummer Charles Hayward

Added: 01/07/2013
6.5

A Place to Bury Strangers

Worship

The Brooklyn experimental noise rock trio with their 3rd album

Added: 08/06/2012
6.5

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Tea For The Tillerman2

Album number sixteen from the singer-songwriter features new interpretations of the songs from his 1970 album Tea For The Tillerman

Added: 18/09/2020
6.5

Young Thug

Barter 6

Third digital-only release from the Atlanta rapper, featuring Birdman, T.I., Boosie Badazz, Young Dolph, Yak Gotti, Duke and Jacquees

Added: 29/04/2015
6.5

YG

Stay Dangerous

Third full-length album from Compton-based rapper with appearances from 2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky, Big Sean, Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign

Added: 07/08/2018
6.5

Why?

Aokohio

Sixth album from Jonathan ""Yoni"" Wolf's Californian indie rock collective

Added: 12/08/2019
6.5

Waters

Out In The Light

Solo album of indie pop from former Port O'Brien frontman Van Pierszalowski produced by John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, St Vincent)

Added: 20/09/2011
6.5

Two Wounded Birds

Two Wounded Birds

Debut album from the London band, dealing in surf-inspired retro pop

Added: 27/06/2012
6.5

Turin Brakes

Lost Property

Seventh studio album of folk tinged indie rock from the London band led by Olly Nights and Gale Paridjanian

Added: 29/01/2016
6.5

The Orb

No Sounds Are Out of Bounds

Fifteenth studio album from English house duo Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann

Added: 22/06/2018
6.5

The Fresh & Onlys

Play It Strange

Second album of hallucinogenic indie pop from the San Francisco group

Added: 30/11/2010
6.5

The Chap

Well Done Europe

Fifth album of experimental / art pop with an ironic edge from the London-based band

Added: 01/06/2010
6.5

Telekinesis

Dormarion

Third album of hook-laden indie pop from Seattle singer-songwriter Michael Lerner

Added: 01/04/2013
6.5

Splashh

Comfort

The London-based band formed by an Aussie and a Kiwi deal in alt.rock with hints of grunge, shoegaze and psychedelia on their debut

Added: 03/09/2013
6.5

Soko

I Thought I Was An Alien

Debut full album from the French indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 24/02/2012
6.5

Silicon

Personal Computer

Debut album of electro soul / pop from New Zealander Kody Nielson (younger brother of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson)

Added: 27/08/2015
6.5

Seabear

We Built a Fire

Second album of indie folk from Icelandic seven-piece led by Sindri Mar Sigfusson

Added: 26/03/2010
6.5

Sade

Soldier Of Love

First album for 10 years from the singer best know for her easy listening soul, jazz

Added: 05/02/2010
6.5

Rusko

Songs

Second full-length album from Yorkshire dubstep producer Christopher Mercer

Added: 06/04/2012

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Latest Reviews

Mount Eerie Night Palace

Elverum took his time with this album. Night Palace is startling, brave, and utterly brilliant Spill Magazine

The Cure Songs Of A Lost World

There is a finality to Smith’s thematic choice of words, but it is in the delivery that the urgency and desperation can really be felt as he wrestles with regret, grief, ageing, and humanity’s futile nature Northern Transmissions

The Cure Songs Of A Lost World

The West Sussex legends' first album of new material since 4:13 Dream maps out the hours, minutes, seconds of our 16 years apart, playing back the sound of surviving the death of a planet, hoping that Robert Smith’s voice is there with us as the ground goes cold Paste Magazine

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BlossomsGary
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All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.