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5 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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6.4

Hush Arbors

Yankee Reality

Solo album from alt.folk singer-songwriter Keith Wood

Added: 18/11/2009
6.4

Harrys Gym

What Was Ours Can't Be Yours

Second album from Bergen, Norway indie pop quartet

Added: 07/02/2011
6.4

Got A Girl

I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now

Debut album from actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead and producer Daniel Nakamura, influenced by classic French pop music

Added: 22/07/2014
6.4

Githead

Landing

Collaboration between Wire's Colin Newman and electronic musician Robin Rimbaud

Added: 23/11/2009
6.4

Girls Names

Stains on Silence

Belfast quartet's fourth album of indie surf rock

Added: 18/06/2018
6.4

Gay For Johnny Depp

What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You

Second full album of hardcore punk, or "spazzcore," from the amusingly monikered New York band

Added: 21/02/2011
6.4

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Decency

Third album of indie pop from the Sunderland band now including Futureheads guitarist Ross Millard and Mike Matthews of Sky Larkin

Added: 22/07/2015
6.4

Foo Fighters

Sonic Highways

Album No.8 from Dave Grohl's alt.rock veterans, with each track recorded in a different U.S. city

Added: 10/11/2014
6.4

Drums of Death

Generation Hexed

Debut album of electronic creep-pop from the London based Scot.

Added: 22/09/2010
6.4

Donald Cumming

Out Calls Only

Debut solo album from the former Virgins frontman

Added: 14/06/2015
6.4

Die Hard

Die Hard

This Glasgow group have a dark take on electronica, fleshed out in this debut release

Added: 29/02/2012
6.4

Deradoorian

Eternal Recurrence

An EP of ambience from the ex-Dirty Projectors singer

Added: 10/10/2017
6.4

Dear Reader

Rivonia

Johannesburg alt-pop singer-songwriter Cheri MacNeil with her 4th album, a "pop opera" about her childhood in apartheid South Africa

Added: 12/04/2013
6.4

Dead Can Dance

Anastasis

First album in 16 years from the reformed Australian duo, renowned for their combination of neo-classical, new age world music and gothic folk

Added: 10/08/2012
6.4

David Grubbs

The Plain Where The Palace Stood

Latest release from the prolific Brookly-based experimental post-rock musician

Added: 23/04/2013
6.4

Dave Heumann

Here In The Deep

Debut solo album of folk rock from the Arbouretum frontman

Added: 28/10/2015
6.4

Com Truise

Persuasion System

Fourth studio album of chillwave / synthwave from the US electronic musician Seth Haley

Added: 20/05/2019
6.4

College

Heritage

Third collection of ’80s electropop-inspired synth compositions from French electronic artist David Grellier

Added: 16/09/2013
6.4

Chrissy Murderbot

Women's Studies

Debut album from the Chicago producer and DJ, encompassing juke, footwork, house and dubstep

Added: 18/05/2011
6.4

Chapel Club

Good Together

Sophomore record for the London indie poppers sees them take a synth-heavy approach

Added: 06/06/2013
6.4

Brokeback

Brokeback and the Black Rock

First album in ten years from Tortoise and Eleventh Dream Day bassist Douglas McCombs' side project

Added: 28/01/2013
6.4

Big Sean

Detroit 2

Fifth studio album from the Detroit, Michigan hip hop artist includes guest appearances from Anderson.Paak, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla Sign and Young Thug

Added: 10/09/2020
6.4

Big Sean

Dark Sky Paradise

Third studio album from the Detroit, Michigan hip hop artist and Kanye West protégé

Added: 26/02/2015
6.4

Ben Khan

Ben Khan

Debut full-length album from the London-based electronic artist produced by Flood

Added: 14/08/2018
6.4

Bad Religion

The Dissent of Man

Fifteenth album of acerbic punk from the California veterans

Added: 18/10/2010
6.4

Babybird

Ex-Maniac

Tenth studio album from Sheffield Indie band formed in 1995 and fronted by Stephen Jones with cameo from Johnny Depp

Added: 10/03/2010
6.4

Azure Ray

As Above So Below

The fifth record from this dream pop duo, who started when they were just 15

Added: 20/09/2012
6.4

Avey Tare

Eucalyptus

Second solo album of experimental rock from Animal Collective member David Portner recorded by bandmate Joshua Dibb

Added: 20/07/2017
6.4

A Place to Bury Strangers

Transfixiation

Fourth album from the New York–based noise rock band

Added: 10/02/2015
6.4

Underworld

Barking

Collaborations abound on the first album in three years from techno / electronic duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith

Added: 11/09/2010

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Mount Eerie Night Palace

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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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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.