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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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6.5

Monotonix

Where Were You When It Happened

Israeli garage rock merchants with their first full length release

Added: 19/10/2009
6.5

Mike Patton

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

The soundtrack to the Italian film of the same name, from former singer with alternative rock group, Faith No More

Added: 15/11/2011
6.5

Maxïmo Park

Risk To Exist

Sixth album of post-punk indie rock from the Newcastle-based quartet

Added: 21/04/2017
6.5

Liam Gallagher

As You Were

Debut solo album from the former Oasis member, produced by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Kelly Clarkson) and Dan Grech-Marguerat (Tom Odell, Hurts)

Added: 04/10/2017
6.5

Ladyhawke

Wild Things

Third album of new wave from New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Phillipa Brown

Added: 03/06/2016
6.5

Kontakte

We Move Through Negative Spaces

The London quartet with their second album of sparse post-rock

Added: 20/04/2011
6.5

Kid Harpoon

Once

Trevor Horn-produced debut from the London indie folk/pop singer-songwriter

Added: 01/10/2009
6.5

Jaill

Traps

Jangly indie rock / power pop on the 3rd album from the Milwaukee quartet, their 2nd for Sub Pop

Added: 12/06/2012
6.5

Islet

Celebrate This Place

Self-recorded debut mini-album from the Cardiff No Wave-leaning outfit renowned for their raucous live shows

Added: 25/06/2010
6.5

Ha Ha Tonka

Death Of A Decade

Fourth studio album from the Springield, Missouri indie rock quartet

Added: 21/04/2011
6.5

Glass Ghost

Idol Omen

Debut album of melancholic offbeat pop from Brooklyn-based duo Eliot Krimsky and Mike Johnson

Added: 01/12/2009
6.5

Generationals

Heza

Third full-length album of indie pop from New Orleans duo Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer

Added: 09/04/2013
6.5

Fujiya & Miyagi

Ventriloquizzing

Fourth album from Brighton-based Krautrock four-piece

Added: 07/01/2011
6.5

Filthy Friends

Emerald Valley

Second album from the alt.rock supergroup including REM's Peter Buck and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney

Added: 02/05/2019
6.5

Dex Romweber Duo

Is That You In The Blue?

Second studio album of rootsy blues rock from the former Flat Duo Jets member

Added: 03/08/2011
6.5

Depeche Mode

Delta Machine

The big-selling synth rock veterans mark their 33rd year with album No.13

Added: 22/03/2013
6.5

Cowboy Junkies

Sing In My Meadow: The Nomad Series Volume 3

The third in a series of four albums from the alternative blues and country group

Added: 14/12/2011
6.5

Basement Jaxx

Junto

Seventh studio album from the London electronic dance production duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton

Added: 21/08/2014
6.5

Axxonn

Let's Get It Straight

Debut album from Brisbane-based electronic musician Tom Hall

Added: 26/03/2011
6.5

Alice Cooper

Detroit Stories

The latest solo album from the veteran shock rocker features songs from his 2019 EP Breadcrumbs plus new covers and songs

Added: 26/02/2021
6.5

6 Day Riot

6 Day Riot Have A Plan

Second album from London eclectic folk/pop five piece

Added: 01/08/2009
6.5

2:54

The Other I

Sophomore album from the London alt rock band comprising sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow

Added: 11/11/2014
6.5

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alpocalypse

13th studio album of pop culture parody from the enduring Californian

Added: 10/08/2011
6.5

Your Friend

Gumption

Debut avant-pop album from Lawrence, Kansas singer-songwriter Taryn Miller

Added: 29/01/2016
6.5

We Are The Physics

Your Friend, The Atom

This bonkers Glasgow band release their second album of frantic new wave punk

Added: 22/10/2012
6.5

Wavves

Wavves

San Diego surf rock/punk band with a lo-fi debut

Added: 03/06/2009
6.5

Ulver

Flowers Of Evil

Album number twelve from the Norwegian experimental black metal collective

Added: 29/08/2020
6.5

The Wharves

At Bay

Debut album from the Irish, French, and English three-piece delivering 60's girl group inspired indie

Added: 17/11/2014
6.5

The Waterboys

All Souls Hill

Album number fifteen from the Edinburgh-born Mike Scott working with producer Simon Dine

Added: 11/05/2022
6.5

The Prettiots

Funs Cool

Debut album from the indie pop duo consisting of lead singer and ukulele player Kay Kasparhauser and bassist Lulu Landolfi

Added: 05/02/2016

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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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