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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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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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Amyl And The SniffersCartoon Darkness

"It's a truly glorious rock’n’roll album that is forceful without being simplistic and lairy while maintaining a good sense of humour" - 10/10 - The Arts Desk).

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Soccer MommyEvergreen

"As nuanced as it is captivating" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Even though it stems from the worst of times, it might well be her best album yet" (8/10 - Dork). "It makes you feel less alone" (8/10 - DIY)

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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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8.2

Pallbearer

Foundations Of Burden

Second full-length album from the Little Rock, Arkansas doom metal band produced by Billy Anderson (Swans, Impaled, and Sleep)

Added: 19/08/2014
8.2

Jack White

No Name

Sixth solo album from the former The White Stripes man is a surprise 14-track vinyl-only album was given to people who bought items at Third Man Records stores in Detroit, London and Nashville

Added: 24/07/2024
8.2

Crack Cloud

Pain Olympics

Debut album from the Vancouver-based art-rock, post-punk multimedia collective

Added: 16/07/2020
8.2

Bassekou Kouyate

I Speak Fula

The celebrated Malian ngoni player and singer, with his quartet, on an album of African blues / rock

Added: 27/09/2009
8.2

Algiers

The Underside Of Power

Second album from the Atlanta, Georgia experimental post-rock trio

Added: 21/06/2017
8.2

Aldous Harding

Designer

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

Added: 25/04/2019
8.2

The Bug

Fire

Fifth album of dancehall/grime/hip hop from the London-based Kevin Martin

Added: 27/08/2021
8.2

Sunn O)))

Monoliths & Dimensions

Sixth album from the American drone metal merchants

Added: 01/06/2009
8.2

Pusha T

Daytona

Third solo album from the former member of the rap duo The Clipse produced by Kanye West

Added: 25/05/2018
8.2

Poppy

Flux

Fourth full-length album from the Boston-born singer and YouTube personality Moriah Rose Pereira produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Best Coast, M83, Deafheaven)

Added: 24/09/2021
8.2

FKA Twigs

M3LL155X

English experimental pop artist releases her follow-up to LP1: an EP pronounced "Melissa"

Added: 19/08/2015
8.2

Ethel Cain

Preacher’s Daughter

Full-length debut album from the Florida-born dream pop artist Hayden Silas Anhedönia

Added: 12/05/2022
8.2

Angel Olsen

Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Second album of lo-fi garage rock from Missouri-born singer-songwriter produced by John Congleton (Bill Callahan, St Vincent)

Added: 13/02/2014
8.2

Young Fathers

Cocoa Sugar

Third full-length album from the Edinburgh-based Mercury Prize-winning trio

Added: 05/03/2018
8.2

Protomartyr

Relatives In Descent

Fourth studio album from the Detroit post-punk quartet produced by Sonny DiPerri (Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors)

Added: 27/09/2017
8.2

Porridge Radio

Every Bad

Second full-length album and first for Secretly Canadian from the Brighton indie rock band led by Dana Margolin

Added: 12/03/2020
8.2

Neil Young

Homegrown

The latest release from the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter previously unreleased album from 1975 that was cancelled in favour of Tonight's the Night

Added: 18/06/2020
8.2

Haim

Women In Music Pt. III

Third studio album from the LA pop rock trio Este, Danielle and Alana Haim produced by Rostam Batmanglij, Ariel Rechtshaid and Buddy Ross

Added: 19/06/2020
8.2

Doves

The Universal Want

Fifth album and first in eleven years from the Manchester rock trio produced with Dan Austin

Added: 08/09/2020
8.2

Chance The Rapper

Coloring Book

Third official mix-tape from the label-averse Chicago rapper, featuring guest appearances from Kanye West, Justin Bieber and others

Added: 17/05/2016
8.2

Brittany Howard

Jaime

Debut full-length solo album from the Alabama Shakes frontwoman dedicated to her sister

Added: 19/09/2019
8.2

Bill Callahan

Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest

Sixth album of lo-fi, alt.country from the Maryland-born singer-songwriter formerly known as Smog

Added: 13/06/2019
8.2

Yard Act

The Overload

Debut full-length release from the Leeds post-punk trio

Added: 19/01/2022
8.2

U.S. Girls

In A Poem Unlimited

Sixth solo album of dark baroque pop from Toronto-born Meghan Remy

Added: 13/02/2018
8.2

Sophie

Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Debut studio album of experimental art pop from LA-based, Scottish-born Sophie Xeon, its title a reverse mondegreen of "I love every person's insides"

Added: 15/06/2018
8.2

Sharon Van Etten

Remind Me Tomorrow

Fifth album from the Brooklyn-based indie folk singer-songwriter produced by John Congleton

Added: 14/01/2019
8.2

Shana Cleveland

Manzanita

Third full-length solo album from La Luz's Shana Cleveland featuring contributions from Abbey Blackwell, Olie Eshleman, Johnny Goss and Will Sprott

Added: 11/03/2023
8.2

Pere Ubu

The Long Goodbye

Latest release from the Cleveland, Ohio experimental rock band formed in 1975 and fronted by founding member David Thomas is inspired by Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel

Added: 16/07/2019
8.2

Paul Simon

Seven Psalms

Fifteenth studio album from the veteran singer-songwriter is a completely acoutic affair

Added: 19/05/2023
8.2

MUNA

MUNA

Third album from the Los Angeles-based electronic pop trio

Added: 23/06/2022

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