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2 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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7.5

Taylor Swift

The Tortured Poets Department

Eleventh album from the singer-songwriter featuring guest appearances from Florence And The Machine and Post Malone produced with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner

Added: 19/04/2024
7.5

Tall Ships

Everything Touching

Debut album from the Brighton-based post-rock trio

Added: 11/10/2012
7.5

Sundara Karma

Ulfilas' Alphabet

Second album of guitar-based indie pop from the Reading-based quartet

Added: 08/03/2019
7.5

Sufjan Stevens

The Age of Adz

Perennial indie-folkster Sufjan Stevens goes electronic with his first full album in five years.

Added: 02/10/2010
7.5

SPELLLING

SPELLLING & THE MYSTERY SCHOOL

Fourth full-length album of experimental art-pop from the Bay Area artist Chrystia Cabral

Added: 26/08/2023
7.5

Sauna Youth

Deaths

Third album from the London-based art punk quartet recorded by John Hannon over three days

Added: 07/09/2018
7.5

Saint Etienne

Home Counties

Ninth studio album from the London alternative dance trio formed in 1990

Added: 31/05/2017
7.5

Rustie

Glass Swords

Debut full length release from the Glasgow producer and remixer, encompassing a range of electronic and bass styles

Added: 10/10/2011
7.5

RP Boo

Legacy

Debut album from Kavain Space, one of the pioneers of the Chicago footwork dance sound

Added: 30/05/2013
7.5

PVRIS

All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell

Second full-length album from the Massachusetts alt.rock trio

Added: 28/08/2017
7.5

Public Service Broadcasting

Bright Magic

Fourth studio album from London krautrock / synthpop band covers Weimar-era Berlin

Added: 24/09/2021
7.5

Porter Robinson

Nurture

Second full-length studio album from the Atlanta-based electronic producer

Added: 23/04/2021
7.5

Pistol Annies

Annie Up

Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley follow up their 2011 hit country music debut Hell on Heels

Added: 17/05/2013
7.5

Pictish Trail

Future Echoes

Seventh album from Scottish musician and Lost Map boss Johnny Lynch

Added: 15/09/2016
7.5

Phosphorescent

Here's to Taking It Easy

Fifth album of indie/folk and alt.country from Brookly-based Matthew Houck, now recording with his live backing band

Added: 07/05/2010
7.5

No Rome

It's All Smiles

Debut full-length release from the London-based Filipino musician Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez

Added: 03/12/2021
7.5

Melvins

The Bride Screamed Murder

Latest collection of sludge rock from the longstanding US pioneers of grunge

Added: 28/05/2010
7.5

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Bon Voyage

Second studio album from French indie dream pop singer-songwriter Melody Prochet

Added: 11/06/2018
7.5

Mega Bog

End of Everything

Sixth full-length album from singer-songwriter Erin Birgy co-produced with James Krivchenia of Big Thief

Added: 19/05/2023
7.5

Margaret Glaspy

Emotions and Math

Debut LP from the California-born, New York-based bluesy, grungy singer-songwriter

Added: 17/06/2016
7.5

Luke Abbott

Translate

Third full length album from Norwich-based electronic producer and musician who is also a member of elecronic jazz group Szun Waves

Added: 25/11/2020
7.5

Loop

Sonancy

Fourth album and first in 32 years from the reformed English drone / psych-rock band

Added: 25/03/2022
7.5

Lightning Bolt

Earthly Delights

Cult Rhode Island duo Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson with a fifth installment of bass and drum experimental noise rock

Added: 17/10/2009
7.5

Laibach

The Sound Of Music

Latest release from the prolific avant-garde Slovenian band formed in 1980 is a reinterpretation of the soundtrack of the musical

Added: 26/11/2018
7.5

Katatonia

Dead End Kings

This latest album from the Swedish doom metal band marks their ninth full length release

Added: 28/08/2012
7.5

Jane Weaver

Loops in the Secret Society

Reworkings of previously released tracks plus new recordings from the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter and former member of Kill Laura and Misty DixonA

Added: 01/07/2019
7.5

Iglooghost

Lei Line Eon

Fourth album of experimental electronica from the English producer Seamus Malliagh

Added: 06/04/2021
7.5

I Am Kloot

Sky At Night

Fifth album from the Manchester indie rock trio, with added orchestral instrumentation and producer by Elbow's Guy Garvey and Craig Potter

Added: 01/07/2010
7.5

Ho99o9

United States Of Horror

Debut LP from the LA-based hip hop/hardcore duo theOGM and Eaddy

Added: 17/05/2017
7.5

Gordi

Our Two skins

Second album from the Australian folktronica singer-songwriter Sophie Payten

Added: 26/06/2020

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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

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