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2 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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6.2

Esperanza Spalding

Radio Music Society

The latest album of contemporary jazz from this accomplished bassist and singer

Added: 20/03/2012
6.2

Enter Shikari

The Mindsweep

Fourth LP from the St. Albans group who blend electronica and post hardcore

Added: 19/01/2015
6.2

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros

Persona

Fourth album of psychedelic indie folk from the LA band led by Alex Ebert, recorded almost entirely in one room in New Orleans

Added: 14/04/2016
6.2

Drenge

Strange Creatures

Third album from the English post-grunge band produced by Ross Orton

Added: 25/02/2019
6.2

Dawes

Passwords

Sixth album from the LA folk rock group, produced by Jonathan Wilson

Added: 25/06/2018
6.2

Cursive

Mama, I’m Swollen

Sixth release of intense indie rock from Tim Kasher's Nebraska-based band

Added: 16/03/2009
6.2

Crystal Antlers

Two-Way Mirror

First full-length release from the Long Beach, Calfornia indie rock quintet

Added: 11/07/2011
6.2

Children Of Alice

Children Of Alice

Ambient project from James Cargill (Broadcast) and long-time collaborators Roj Stevens and Julian House

Added: 01/03/2017
6.2

Case Studies

The World is just a Shape to Fill the Night

Stripped-down folk on the first release under his new guise from the former member of Dutchess & The Duke, Jesse Lortz

Added: 01/09/2011
6.2

Built to Spill

Built To Spill Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston

Ninth studio album from the Boise, Idaho indie rock act is an 11-song tribute album to the singer-songwriter who they backed on his 2017 tour

Added: 16/06/2020
6.2

Bryan Ferry

Olympia

Thirteenth studio album from the former Roxy Music frontman

Added: 21/10/2010
6.2

Brendan Benson

You Were Right

Sixth solo album of power pop and alternative rock from the Michigan singer-songwriter and member of The Raconteurs

Added: 28/11/2013
6.2

Boy George

This Is What I Do

First solo album of new material for over 18 years from the former Culture Club frontman George O'Dowd

Added: 01/11/2013
6.2

Blossoms

Blossoms

Debut album of indie pop from the Stockport, England quintet

Added: 04/08/2016
6.2

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Gratitude

Third album of acoustic indie folk from the English singer-songwriter produced by Beatriz Artola and Joe Rubin

Added: 15/03/2019
6.2

Belong

Common Era

Second album from New Orleans shoegaze, indie-rock duo

Added: 01/04/2011
6.2

Beirut

No No No

Fifth album of Balkan-tinged indie folk from the multi-membered outfit led by Zach Condon

Added: 08/09/2015
6.2

Baxter Dury

It's A Pleasure

Fourth album of electro-tinged pop from the son of Ian Dury featuring Fabienne Debarre formerly of We Were Evergreen

Added: 24/10/2014
6.2

ARP

The Soft Wave

Second album from the electronic drone-mongers

Added: 20/09/2010
6.2

Amanda Palmer And Edward Ka-Spel

I Can Spin A Rainbow

Collaboration between the former Dresden Dolls singer The Legendary Pink Dots co-founder

Added: 15/05/2017
6.2

All We Are

Sunny Hills

Second album from the Liverpool-based Norwegian/Irish/Brazilian trio

Added: 12/06/2017
6.2

All We Are

All We Are

Debut album of chilled-out indie pop from the Liverpool-based trio who hail from Brazil, Ireland and Norway

Added: 03/02/2015
6.2

Alexis Taylor

Piano

The Hot Chip vocalist releases his third solo album of consisting of just his voice and piano

Added: 11/06/2016
6.2

2 Chainz / Lil Wayne

ColleGrove

Third studio album from the Georgia-based rapper. A collaboration with Lil Wayne, credited as a 2 Chainz solo album as to not breach Lil Wayne's contract with Cash Money Records

Added: 09/03/2016
6.2

Tinie Tempah

Disc-Overy

The London-born rapper follows up his hit singles with a debut longplayer.

Added: 03/10/2010
6.2

Snoop Dogg

Bush

An RnB and funk-heavy, Pharrell-produced thirteenth album from the West Coast hip hop legend, featuring guest appearances from Stevie Wonder and Charlie Wilson

Added: 08/05/2015
6.2

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

It's a Corporate World

Debut album from the Detroit-based indie pop duo

Added: 07/06/2011
6.2

Ceremony

The L-Shaped Man

For their fifth album the Californian punk rockers take a far more post-punk approach

Added: 19/05/2015
6.2

Benjamin Gibbard

Former Lives

The Death Cab for Cutie frontman with a first album under his own name and his first work released since his split with Zooey Deschanel

Added: 15/10/2012
6.2

White Hills

Frying on this Rock

Third album on Thrill Jockey in 3 years from the New York psychedelic space rock specialists

Added: 19/03/2012

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Mount Eerie Night Palace

It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. Print edition only Uncut

Mount Eerie Night Palace

On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones The Skinny

Mount Eerie Night Palace

Phil Elverum seems to have made peace with impermanence on his latest, a sprawling 26-track double album Paste Magazine

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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.