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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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Albums to watch

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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7.6

H.E.R.

Back of My Mind

Debut full-length release from the Californian R&B singer-songwriter Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson

Added: 23/06/2021
7.6

Guided By Voices

Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Album number thirty five from indie rock musician Robert Pollard and his band

Added: 07/03/2022
7.6

Gorillaz

Song Machine, Season One: Strange

Seventh studio album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual band is part of the Song Machine project

Added: 20/10/2020
7.6

Girls

Father, Son, Holy Ghost

2nd album of lo-fi indie pop from the San Francisco duo

Added: 05/09/2011
7.6

Foxes

The Kick

Third album of electronic pop from the Southampton-born singer-songwriter Louisa Rose Allen

Added: 16/02/2022
7.6

Fear of Men

Loom

Debut full album from the Brighton-based atmospheric indie-pop trio

Added: 21/04/2014
7.6

Dogleg

Melee

Debut album from the Detroit rock quartet formed by guitarist Alex Stoitsiadis in 2016

Added: 20/03/2020
7.6

Clinic

Fantasy Island

Album number nine from the Liverpudlian post-punk revivalists

Added: 26/10/2021
7.6

Charles Bradley

Changes

Third album from the James Brown impersonator-turned R&B/soul singer in his own right, featuring a cover of the titular Black Sabbath tune

Added: 31/03/2016
7.6

Blossoms

Ribbon Around The Bomb

Fourth album of indie pop from the Stockport, England quintet produced by Coral frontman James Skelly and Rich Turvey

Added: 29/04/2022
7.6

Ashley McBride

Never Will

Second album from the tje Arkasas-born country artist produced by Jay Joyce (FIDLAR, Eric Church, Patty Griffin)

Added: 07/04/2020
7.6

Animal Collective

Fall Be Kind

EP and quick follow-up to the acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavillion from the New York-based experimental indie band

Added: 02/12/2009
7.6

A$AP Rocky

LiveLoveA$AP

Much-anticipated debut full-length hip hop mixtape from 23-year-old Harlem rapper Rakim Mayers

Added: 29/11/2011
7.6

Wand

Vertigo

Sixth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

Added: 29/07/2024
7.6

Vince Staples

Dark Times

Sixth full-length album from the Long Beach, California rapper

Added: 27/05/2024
7.6

Vessels

Helioscope

Second album from the Leeds-based post-rock five-piece

Added: 21/03/2011
7.6

Ty Segall

Emotional Mugger

Eighth solo album from the prolific lo-fi San Francisco garage rocker

Added: 20/01/2016
7.6

Trembling Bells

Dungeness

The sixth album of psychedelic tinged folk-rock from the Glasgow-based band led by Alex Neilson

Added: 30/03/2018
7.6

Tinariwen

Emmaar

Sixth album from Mali-based band recorded in a Joshua Tree studio and featuring fiddle player Fats Caplin and Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer

Added: 07/02/2014
7.6

The Sugarman 3

What the World Needs Now

Album No.4 from the New York retro funk trio

Added: 02/06/2012
7.6

The Mountain Goats

Jenny From Thebes

Album number twenty-two from the lo-fi indie folk band led by John Darnielle was produced by Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith)

Added: 27/10/2023
7.6

The Joy Formidable

The Big Roar

Debut album from the Welsh indie rock band, formed in 2007

Added: 20/01/2011
7.6

Taylor McFerrin

Early Riser

Debut full length album from the Brooklyn beatboxer, producer and DJ

Added: 05/06/2014
7.6

Tamikrest

Chatma

The Malian Tuareg band, now exiled in Algeria, with a 3rd collection of desert rock, blending traditional styles and western rock

Added: 24/09/2013
7.6

Stumbleine

Spiderwebbed

Debut solo LP of chilled electro from the Bristol producer who is also one third of dubstep group Swarms

Added: 26/11/2012
7.6

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

Mirror Traffic

Fifth album from the Portland, Oregon indie rock quartet fronted by the former Pavement singer

Added: 04/08/2011
7.6

Sonny & The Sunsets

Hit After Hit

Second album from the San Francisco-based 60s influenced indie pop band fronted by Sonny Smith

Added: 16/05/2011
7.6

Smoke Fairies

Wild Winter

Seasonal themed fifth album from the London-based dream-pop duo Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies

Added: 25/11/2015
7.6

Sky Larkin

Motto

The Leeds trio's third album of grunge pop / indie rock since forming eight years ago

Added: 16/09/2013
7.6

Six Organs of Admittance

Burning The Threshold

Latest release from the Comets of Fire guitarist Ben Chasny is his first acoustic-led since 2011’s Asleep on the Floodplain

Added: 23/02/2017

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Latest Reviews

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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All-time top 10

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.