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4 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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6.3

Disappears

Pre Language

The latest collection of krautrock and shoegaze from the Chicagoan group, now including Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth

Added: 14/03/2012
6.3

Dignan Porch

Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen

Second album of lo-fi psych-pop from London five-piece fronted by Joe Walsh

Added: 10/08/2012
6.3

Cullen Omori

The Diet

Second solo album from one of the Smith Westerns brothers, recorded in LA with Taylor Locke

Added: 17/08/2018
6.3

Cryptacize

Mythomania

The California band's second release of experimental rock

Added: 12/06/2009
6.3

Clues

Clues

Montreal indie pop band with their debut album

Added: 02/07/2009
6.3

Christopher Owens

A New Testament

The Children of God-raised ex Girls frontman releases his second solo album of gospel and country tinged indie rock

Added: 26/09/2014
6.3

Bleeding Rainbow

Interrupt

Fourth album and second since changing their name from Reading Rainbow from the Philadelphia-based noise pop quartet

Added: 25/02/2014
6.3

Big Troubles

Romantic Comedy

Noise pop and fuzzy indie rock on the 2nd album from the New Jersey quartet

Added: 28/09/2011
6.3

Ava Luna

Electric Balloon

Carlos Hernandez' New York soul band with a punk aesthetic wrote this, their second album, as a whole band collaborative effort

Added: 04/03/2014
6.3

Asa

Beautiful Imperfection

Second album of soul /jazz from Paris-born Nigerian singer-songwriter

Added: 04/09/2011
6.3

Arbouretum

Coming Out of the Fog

Fifth album of dark folk rock from Dave Heumann's band

Added: 22/01/2013
6.3

Wet Nuns

Wet Nuns

First, and probably last, full-length release from the Sheffield-based self-styled "death blues" duo, who announced they were splitting two weeks before the album's release

Added: 28/10/2013
6.3

Umberto

Night Has A Thousand Screams

Former Expo '70 synth and bass player Matt Hill with an experimental electronic album based on a commission to score Spanish slasher movie Pieces

Added: 05/12/2012
6.3

Two Gallants

We Are Undone

The 5th studio album from San Francisco based guitar-drum duo

Added: 02/02/2015
6.3

Therapy?

Disquiet

Album number fourteen from the Northern Irish alt.rock trio formed in 1989

Added: 17/04/2015
6.3

The Wallflowers

Glad All Over

First album in seven years from Los Angeles roots rock group, featuring a guest appearance from Mick Jones of The Clash

Added: 19/10/2012
6.3

The Voyeurs

Rhubarb Rhubarb

Follow up album of indie rock from the band formerly known as Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs

Added: 19/11/2014
6.3

Rumer

Boys Don't Cry

Second album from the Pakistani-born English pop / soul singer covers songs originally recorded by men in the 1970s

Added: 25/05/2012
6.3

Psychic Ills

Inner Journey Out

Fifth album from the the NYC experimental/psych rock duo Tres Warren and Elizabeth Hart

Added: 24/06/2016
6.3

Porcelain Raft

Microclimate

Third album of dreamy alt indie from Rome-born Mauro Remiddi

Added: 07/02/2017
6.3

Pink

The Truth About Love

The pop singer's 6th album, co-written with studio luminaries such as Max Martin and Greg Kurstin

Added: 14/09/2012
6.3

Palmistry

Pagan

Debut full length album of electronic pop from London-based producer/musician Benjy Keating

Added: 01/08/2016
6.3

Menace Beach

Lowtalker

Debut EP from the Leeds-based indie rock "supergroup" comprising members of Pulled Apart by Horses, Hookworms and Sky Larkin

Added: 23/01/2014
6.3

Madonna

Rebel Heart

13th studio album for the Queen of Pop with guest appearances from Chance The Rapper, Nicki Minaj, Nas, and Mike Tyson

Added: 02/03/2015
6.3

Kiesza

Sound Of A Woman

Second album from the Canadian-born R&B / House singer produced by Rami Samir Afuni

Added: 27/11/2014
6.3

Kelsea Ballerini

Unapologetically

Second album of country pop from the Tennessee based singer-songwriter

Added: 10/11/2017
6.3

Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John

Fifteenth solo album from the American singer-songwriter, a cover album of songs by Olivia Newton-John

Added: 26/04/2018
6.3

jj

jj no3

The resolutely mysterious Swedish duo with their latest collection of dream pop

Added: 02/04/2010
6.3

James Ferraro

Sushi

Latest album from the prolific underground electronic producer who has been described by Dazed Digital as making "hi-def-lo-fi pop-art" music

Added: 20/12/2012
6.3

Hurts

Faith

Fifth studio album from the Manchester English synth-pop duo Adam Anderson and Theo Hutchcraft

Added: 14/09/2020

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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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Amyl And The SniffersCartoon Darkness
"It's a truly glorious rock’n’roll album that is forceful without being simplistic and lairy while maintaining a good sense of humour" - 10/10 - The Arts Desk).

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Leon BridgesLeon
"The musician’s emotional fourth album borrows liberally from the past but the themes are modern and the sound utterly timeless" (10/10 - The Observer). "A beautifully constructed contradiction" (9/10 - Far Out)

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"Somehow bolder, stranger and more accessible than his work with Black Midi" (10/10 - Loud And Quiet). "Absolutely bonkers and utterly brilliant" (9/10 - DIY). "Wildly accomplished and utterly absurd" (8/10 - Far Out)

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Alan SparhawkWhite Roses, My God
"A brave undertaking; perhaps a new beginning; certainly a triumph" (8.6/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Grief has never sounded so captivating" (9/10 - Clash)

Katy J PearsonSomeday, Now
"A departure but a truly successful one, full of sublime vocals and creative confidence" (10/10 - DIY). "Wistful synth-pop that showcases her ever evolving creativity" (8/10 - musicOMH)

BlossomsGary
"A collection of arrestingly catchy, carefree pop songs that are sure to steal the hearts of fans and newcomers alike" (9/10 - God Is In The TV). "‘Gary’ is the most fun you’ll have with any band in 2024" (8/10 - Dork)

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.