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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

"‘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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7.7

Pokey LaFarge

In The Blossom Of Their Shade

Latest album from the Illinois-born folk/roots singer-songwriter and actor

Added: 16/10/2021
7.7

Pet Shop Boys

Electric

Album number twelve from the veteran synth pop pioneers Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant and first on their own label

Added: 05/07/2013
7.7

Pauline Anna Strom

Angel Tears In Sunlight

First release in thirty three years from the San Francisco-based electronic composer who died in December 2020

Added: 23/02/2021
7.7

Paul Weller

A Kind Revolution

Album number thirteen from the former Jam and Style Council front man includes guest appearances from PP Arnold, Madeleine Bell, Boy George and Robert Wyatt

Added: 10/05/2017
7.7

Parcels

Day/Night

Second album from the Australian electropop five-piece now based in Berlin

Added: 06/11/2021
7.7

Oneohtrix Point Never

R Plus Seven

More experimental electronica from producer and synth maestro Daniel Lopatin, his debut long-player release on Warp

Added: 24/09/2013
7.7

Nilüfer Yanya

Painless

Third album of indie pop from the 23-year old British-Turkish singer-songwriter

Added: 02/03/2022
7.7

Meshuggah

Koloss

Titans of Swedish extreme metal, this experimental quintet return with their seventh album

Added: 27/03/2012
7.7

Melt Yourself Down

100% YES

Third studio album from the London-based jazz, funk, Afrobeat, world music and tribal pop collective led by former Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham

Added: 03/04/2020
7.7

Megafaun

Megafaun

Fourth album of folk-rock from North Carolina's trio.

Added: 19/09/2011
7.7

Margo Price

Strays

Fourth studio album from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter produced by Jonathan Wilson (Dawes, Angel Olsen, Father John Misty)

Added: 12/01/2023
7.7

Leyla McCalla

Breaking The Thermometer

Latest album from New Orleans-based singer-songwriter inspired in part by the history of Radio Haiti

Added: 11/05/2022
7.7

Laurel Halo

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Mini-album of six instrumental pieces from the Berlin-based electronic ambient pop artist

Added: 17/07/2018
7.7

Lankum

Between The Earth And Sky

Second album from the Irish folk quartet and first for Rough Trade

Added: 30/10/2017
7.7

Kurt Vile

b'lieve i'm goin down

Sixth studio release from the Philadelphia lo-fi indie rocker, follow up to 2013's It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)

Added: 18/09/2015
7.7

Konono No 1

Assume Crash Position

Second album from Congolese band whose signature sound comes from massed amplified likembes (thumb pianos)

Added: 17/05/2010
7.7

Kiasmos

Kiasmos

Debut LP from the techno collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup's Janus Rasmussen

Added: 30/10/2014
7.7

K'naan

Troubadour

Second album from Somalian-born, Toronto-based rapper who's 'Waving Flag' is the official World Cup anthem

Added: 26/06/2010
7.7

Jupiter & Okwess

Kin Sonic

Second internationally released album from Congolese artist Jupiter Bokondji

Added: 07/07/2017
7.7

Jolie Holland

Wine Dark Sea

Fifth studio album of traditional Americana from one of The Be Good Tanyas founding members

Added: 21/05/2014
7.7

Johnny Marr

Fever Dreams Pts 1- 4

Fourth solo album from the former Smiths guitarist

Added: 24/02/2022
7.7

Inter Arma

Sulphur English

Fourth album from the Richmond, Virginia metal band

Added: 15/04/2019
7.7

Hovvdy

Hovvdy

Fifth album from the Austin, Texas indie-pop duo Charlie Martin and Will Taylor

Added: 29/04/2024
7.7

Horsegirl

Versions of Modern Performance

Debut album from the Chicago rock trio

Added: 01/06/2022
7.7

Haiku Salut

The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

Fifth album from the Derbyshire electronica instrumental trio Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood and Louise Croft

Added: 14/09/2021
7.7

Haiku Salut

There Is No Elsewhere

Third album from the Derbyshire instrumental trio Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood and Louise Croft

Added: 14/09/2018
7.7

Demdike Stare

Tryptych

Three CD collection of 2010's vinyl-only releases from Manchester experimental duo Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker, encompassing ambient, dub and techno

Added: 09/03/2011
7.7

Daniel Avery

Drone Logic

Debut album of ambient techno from London based producer, mixed with Erol Alkan

Added: 09/10/2013
7.7

Curtis Harding

If Words Were Flowers

Third solo album from the Atlanta-based soul artist produced with Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Alexandra Savior, Pavo Pavo)

Added: 05/11/2021
7.7

Connan Mockasin

Forever Dolphin Love

Repackaged debut of psychedelic pop from New Zealand-born Connan Hosford

Added: 28/03/2011

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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

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