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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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7.6

Goat Girl

Below The Waste

Third album from the South London post punk quartet

Added: 06/06/2024
7.6

Gilla Band

Most Normal

First album under this moniker from the Dublin noise rock band previously know as Girl Band

Added: 06/10/2022
7.6

Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX

We're New Here

Remix of Scott-Heron's 2010 album I'm New Here by The xx's Jamie Smith. More than one reviewer regards it a masterpiece

Added: 16/02/2011
7.6

Geese

3D Country

Second full-length album from the Brooklyn indie rock quintet was produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford

Added: 23/06/2023
7.6

First Aid Kit

Palomino

Fifth album from the Swedish indie folk duo produced by Daniel Bengtson

Added: 04/11/2022
7.6

EMA

Exile In The Outer Ring

Third solo album of lo-fi alt.rock from former Gowns and Amps For Christ member Erika M Anderson

Added: 21/08/2017
7.6

Elvis Costello and The Roots

Wise Up Ghost

The veteran singer-songwriter's latest collaborative release, this time with the Philadelphia hip hop innovators, resulting in a genre-fusing album with a political slant

Added: 13/09/2013
7.6

Dawn

Redemption

Third album from the New Orleans R&B singer-songwriter and the final part of a trilogy that includes 2013's Goldenheart and 2015's Blackheart

Added: 23/11/2016
7.6

Bob Dylan

Triplicate

Thirty-eighth studio album from the Nobel Prize winner, another in a series of releases of American classics covers, and his first ever triple-album

Added: 30/03/2017
7.6

Black Belt Eagle Scout

The Land. The Water, The Sky

Third album from the Portland, Oregon-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Katherine Paul

Added: 10/02/2023
7.6

Benjamin Clementine

I Tell A Fly

Second album from London-born poet and singer-songwriter following up his Mercury Prize-winning debut At Least for Now

Added: 25/09/2017
7.6

Autechre

Oversteps

The English experimental electronic act with their 10th album of loop-based IDM

Added: 15/03/2010
7.6

Zomby

Dedication

The UK producer with his 2nd full length release, taking in bass, electronica, dubstep and other experimental soundscapes

Added: 06/07/2011
7.6

Vessel

Punish, Honey

Second album from Bristol-based electronic artist Seb Gainsborough blends elements of techno and house

Added: 11/09/2014
7.6

Thurston Moore

By The Fire

Sixth solo album from the Sonic Youth frontman features Steve Shelley, Deb Googe, Jem Doulton, James Sedwards and Negativland's Jon Leidecker.

Added: 23/09/2020
7.6

The Sexual Objects

Cucumber

Debut album from Edinburgh indie rock band fronted by former Fire Engines, Win and Nectarine No.9 singer Davie Henderson

Added: 27/10/2010
7.6

The National

Laugh Track

Album number ten from the Ohio indie quintet was writen and recorded alongside First Two Pages of Frankenstein (2023) features guest vocal appearances from Justin Vernon, Phoebe Bridgers and Rosanne Cash

Added: 18/09/2023
7.6

The Chats

High Risk Behaviour

Debut full-length album from the Australian punk trio Eamon Sandwith, Josh Price and Matt Boggis

Added: 27/03/2020
7.6

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Revelation

Album number thirteen from the San Francisco alt.rock band led by Anton Newcombe who featured in the documentary Dig along with The Dandy Warhols

Added: 19/05/2014
7.6

Sylvan Esso

Sylvan Esso

Debut album of electronic dream pop from Amelia Meath (Mountain Man) and Nick Sanborn (Megafaun)

Added: 14/05/2014
7.6

Suede

The Blue Hour

Eighth album from the English alt. rock group produced by Alan Moulder (Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver)

Added: 20/09/2018
7.6

Sigur Rós

Kveikur

The Icelandic band, now a trio following the departure of keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson, swap ambient post-rock for a more industrial sound on their 7th album

Added: 11/06/2013
7.6

Saigon

The Greatest Story Never Told

The hip hop artist's eventual follow-up to street album Warning Shots 2, originally scheduled for release in 2006

Added: 21/03/2011
7.6

Placebo

Never Let Me Go

Eighth album of industrial alt.rock from the London-based band led by vocalist Brian Molko

Added: 24/03/2022
7.6

Peter Perrett

How The West Was Won

Debut solo album from the English singer-songwriter and former The Only Ones frontman

Added: 28/06/2017
7.6

Other Lives

Tamer Animals

Album No2 from the Oklahoma indie rock / alt.folk five-piece

Added: 12/08/2011
7.6

Neil Young

Le Noise

Latest studio album from the legendary Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter produced by Daniel Lanois

Added: 26/09/2010
7.6

Metz

Atlas Vending

Fourth release from the Toronto post-hardcore trio co-produced by Uniform's Ben Greenberg

Added: 07/10/2020
7.6

Metronomy

The English Riviera

Third studio album from the English electropop group

Added: 01/04/2011
7.6

Marianne Faithfull

She Walks in Beauty

The latest release from the English singer-songwriter is a spoken word album with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal

Added: 28/04/2021

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