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1 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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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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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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Soccer MommyEvergreen

"As nuanced as it is captivating" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Even though it stems from the worst of times, it might well be her best album yet" (8/10 - Dork). "It makes you feel less alone" (8/10 - DIY)

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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)

BeabadoobeeThis Is How Tomorrow Moves

"It fizzes with energy gleaned from Nirvana and Beck, The Breeders and Blondie" (8/10 - The Arts Desk). "Marks the maturing of a fine talent" (8/10 - The Irish Times)

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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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7.8

Floating Points

Crush

Third album from the London-based producer and composer Sam Shepherd

Added: 15/10/2019
7.8

Ezra Furman

Perpetual Motion People

Third album from the Chicago indie rock musician and songwriter

Added: 02/07/2015
7.8

Everything Everything

Re-Animator

Fifth album from the Manchester-based indie pop/art rock band produced by John Congleton (St Vincent, Angel Olsen, Future Islands)

Added: 11/09/2020
7.8

Elbow

Flying Dream 1

Album number nine from the Manchester alt.rock band recorded in an empty Theatre Royal in Brighton

Added: 19/11/2021
7.8

Camera Obscura

Look to the East, Look to the West

Album number six, and first in eleven years, from the Glasgow indie pop band

Added: 03/05/2024
7.8

yeule

Softscars

Third album of ambient / glitch pop from London-based, Singapore-born producer Nat Cmiel

Added: 22/09/2023
7.8

Women

Public Strain

Experimental noise pop / psych rock on the second album from the Calgary act

Added: 23/08/2010
7.8

Wire

Red Barked Tree

Twelfth studio album from the London post-punk band formed in 1976

Added: 05/01/2011
7.8

Wilco

Star Wars

Studio album number nine from the Chicago-based alt.rock six-piece self-released as a free download

Added: 21/07/2015
7.8

Vagabon

Vagabon

Second album of indie rock from the Cameroon-born, New York-raised, multi-instrumentalist Laetitia Tamko

Added: 17/10/2019
7.8

Torres

Thirstier

Fifth album of indie rock from Orlando-born Mackenzie Scott

Added: 28/07/2021
7.8

Torres

Torres

Debut self-released album from Nashville singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott, recorded mostly in single live-band takes

Added: 01/03/2013
7.8

The Moonlandingz

Interplanetary Class Classics

Debut record from the band made up of members of Sheffield electro-duo Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family

Added: 14/03/2017
7.8

Purity Ring

Shrines

80s-inspired indie electro on the much-anticipated debut album from the Montreal duo

Added: 19/07/2012
7.8

Phoebe Bridgers

Stranger In The Alps

Debut LP from the LA singer-songwriter, featuring a guest appearance from Conor Oberst

Added: 21/09/2017
7.8

Natalie Prass

The Future And The Past

Second album from the Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter produced by Matthew E. White

Added: 29/05/2018
7.8

Modern Baseball

Holy Ghost

Third album of pop punk from the Philadelphia-based four-piece produced by Hop Along's Joe Reinhart

Added: 13/05/2016
7.8

Mission of Burma

Unsound

The fifth album from this American post-punk group, and their fourth since their reunion on 2002

Added: 03/07/2012
7.8

Local Natives

Gorilla Manor

Debut release from the LA quintet who've drawn (favourable) comparisons with Fleet Foxes

Added: 06/11/2009
7.8

Liars

The Apple Drop

Album number nine from the Brooklyn-based experimental art rock / noise-rock trio

Added: 02/08/2021
7.8

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Nonagon Infinity

Album number eight from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece which plays as one continuous loop

Added: 28/04/2016
7.8

King Creosote

From Scotland With Love

Kenny Anderson's soundtrack for the archive footage BBC documentary of the same name

Added: 14/07/2014
7.8

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Weathervanes

Ninth album from the former Drive-By Trucker man and sixth with the 400 Unit

Added: 07/06/2023
7.8

Jane Weaver

Modern Kosmology

Sixth full-length album of dream pop from the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter and former member of Kill Laura and Misty Dixon

Added: 19/05/2017
7.8

Gengahr

A Dream Outside

Debut album from the London alt-rock 4 piece

Added: 12/06/2015
7.8

Floating Points

Cascade

Fourth album from the London-based producer and composer Sam Shepherd

Added: 12/09/2024
7.8

Django Django

Glowing in the Dark

Fourth studio album from the London-based art rock quartet

Added: 08/02/2021
7.8

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Pretty Years

Fourth album from the Staten Island, NY indie rock band founded by Joseph D'Agostino and Matthew Miller

Added: 16/09/2016
7.8

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

I Made A Place

Latest release from the lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham

Added: 13/11/2019
7.8

Arab Strap

I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

Second album since they reformed from the Scottish indie rock duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton

Added: 10/05/2024

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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.