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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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Tyler, The CreatorChromakopia

"‘CHROMAKOPIA’ 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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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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7.7

Behemoth

I Loved You At Your Darkest

Self-produced album number eleven by Polish death metal veterans featuring a seventeen-piece orchestra arranged by Jan Stoklosa

Added: 09/10/2018
7.7

Bdrmm

Bdrmm

Debut album from the Hull, UK-based dream pop / shoegaze five-piece led by Ryan Smith

Added: 06/07/2020
7.7

Bartees Strange

Live Forever

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based musician mixing arena-rock, folk and rap

Added: 06/10/2020
7.7

Anjimile

Giver Taker

Debut full-length album from the Boston-based singer-songwriter

Added: 18/09/2020
7.7

Angelo De Augustine

Toil and Trouble

Fourth album from the Los Angeles-based indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 03/07/2023
7.7

Anaïs Mitchell

Anaïs Mitchell

Eighth album from the Vermont singer-songwriter includes contributions from Aaron Dessner, Josh Kaufman, Michael Lewis and Nico Muhly

Added: 28/01/2022
7.7

Aldous Harding

Party

Second album from the New Zealand-born gothic folk singer-songwriter

Added: 21/05/2017
7.7

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson

Hirta Songs

Collaborative album from a Scots folkster and a poet, taking its name from an island in the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland

Added: 05/12/2013
7.7

Aesop Rock

The Impossible Kid

Seventh album from the San Francisco-based hip hop artist and producer Ian Matthias Bavitz

Added: 03/05/2016
7.7

Adrianne Lenker

Abysskiss

Fourth full-length release by American singer-songwriter and Big Thief lead vocalist

Added: 03/10/2018
7.7

The National

I Am Easy To Find

Album number eight from the Ohio indie rock band recorded in Aaron Dessner's home studio features guest appearances from Sharon Van Etten, Gail Ann Dorsey, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Stables, Mina Tindle and the Brooklyn Youth Choir

Added: 08/05/2019
7.7

Swans

The Glowing Man

Fourteenth studio album from Michael Gira's New York experimental rock band, said to be the last with the band's current line up

Added: 15/06/2016
7.7

Sleater-Kinney

The Center Won't Hold

Ninth album from the Olympia, Washington all-girl punk trio produced by St. Vincent

Added: 14/08/2019
7.7

Mastodon

The Hunter

Fifth album of psychedelic progressive metal from the Georgian group

Added: 23/09/2011
7.7

Julie Byrne

Not Even Happiness

Second album from the New York-based singer-songwriter

Added: 11/01/2017
7.7

Flying Lotus

Flamagra

Sixth album of experimental hip hop / electronica from LA-based producer and musician featuring Anderson Paak, George Clinton, Little Dragon, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, Toro y Moi and Solange

Added: 22/05/2019
7.7

(Sandy) Alex G

Rocket

Eighth album from the Philadelphia lo-fi indie rock musician Alex Giannascoli

Added: 18/05/2017
7.7

The Weeknd

Echoes Of Silence

Third self-released mixtape of 2011 from Canadian R&B singer-songwriter Abel Tesfay

Added: 03/01/2012
7.7

The Japanese House

In the End It Always Does

Second studio album of indie electro dream pop from English artist Amber Bain

Added: 30/06/2023
7.7

The Coral

Distance Inbetween

Eighth album and first for five years from Merseyside indie rock five-piece produced by Richard Turvey

Added: 03/03/2016
7.7

The Beths

Jump Rope Gazers

Second album of indie pop from the Auckland, New Zealand four-piece produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce

Added: 07/07/2020
7.7

The Antlers

Familiars

Fifth album from the Brooklyn-based ambient indie rock band led by Peter Silberman

Added: 13/06/2014
7.7

Teenage Fanclub

Nothing Lasts Forever

Album number twelve from the veteran Scottish alt-rockers has an equal number of songs from two remaining songwriters Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley

Added: 22/09/2023
7.7

Steve Mason

Meet The Humans

Third solo album from the ex Beta Band frontman, produced by Elbow’s Craig Potter

Added: 21/02/2016
7.7

slowthai

Nothing Great About Britain

Debut album from the English rapper Tyron Frampton includes guest appearances Jaykae and Skepta as well as production credits from Mura Masa and punk rock band Slaves

Added: 17/05/2019
7.7

Robert Plant

Band Of Joy

Former Led Zeppelin frontman releases an album with a brand new band, named after his very first band in the sixties

Added: 10/09/2010
7.7

NxWorries

Yes Lawd!

Debut studio album from the hip-hop collaboration between Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge

Added: 19/10/2016
7.7

Moonface

Julia with Blue Jeans On

Third LP from Moonface, just one of the many projects of Canadian singer-songwriter Spencer Krug

Added: 25/10/2013
7.7

Marlon Williams

Make Way for Love

Second album from the New Zealand-born alt-country singer-songwriter

Added: 16/02/2018
7.7

Lapalux

Nostalchic

Debut album from Essex-born producer Stuart Howard mixes post-dubstep R&B and hip hop

Added: 22/03/2013

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