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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

Adrianne Lenker

instrumentals

One of two simultaneous releases from the American singer-songwriter and Big Thief lead vocalist recorded in a cabin in the mountains of Western Massachusetts

Added: 22/10/2020
8.2

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It's Blitz!

Synth-heavy dance-rock on the third album from the NY act

Added: 15/03/2009
8.2

Working Men’s Club

Fear Fear

Second full-length album from the West Yorkshire band led by Sydney Minsky-Sargeant

Added: 15/07/2022
8.2

Vampire Weekend

Modern Vampires Of The City

Third album of indie pop / rock from the New York four-piece produced by Ariel Rechtshaid (Charli XCX, Usher, Major Lazer)

Added: 07/05/2013
8.2

Underworld

DRIFT Series 1

A six disc set from techno / electronic duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith is the culmination of a year-long exercise in recording a releasing a song every week

Added: 07/11/2019
8.2

Troye Sivan

Bloom

Second album from the South African-born Australian-raised singer-songwriter and actor includes a guest appearance from Ariana Grande

Added: 30/08/2018
8.2

Róisín Murphy

Roisin Machine

Fifth solo album from the Irish electropop artist and former Moloko singer working with Sheffield producer Richard Barratt

Added: 24/09/2020
8.2

Ray BLK

Access Denied

Debut full-length release from the Nigerian-born, London-based R&B / soul singer Rita Ekwere

Added: 04/10/2021
8.2

Open Mike Eagle

Anime, Trauma And Divorce

Fifth album from the Chicago born rapper and comedian, now based in LA and member of the hip hop collective Project Blowed

Added: 17/10/2020
8.2

Liars

WIXIW

Album number six from the Brooklyn-based experimental art rock / noise-rock trio

Added: 31/05/2012
8.2

Lava La Ru

Starface

Debut full-length release from the neo-psychedelia British-Jamaican musician and NiNE8 Collective founder Aiwa Laurél

Added: 22/07/2024
8.2

Kendrick Lamar

untitled unmastered

Surprise release from the Compton rapper consisting of eight demos recorded during the To Pimp A Butterfly sessions

Added: 07/03/2016
8.2

Flying Lotus

Until The Quiet Comes

Fourth album of experimental hip hop, jazzy electronica and trip hop collages from LA-based producer and musician FlyLo

Added: 26/09/2012
8.2

Bonny Light Horseman

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Third album from the folk trio Anaïs Mitchell, Josh Kaufman and Eric D. Johnson

Added: 12/06/2024
8.2

Behemoth

The Satanist

Tenth studio album from Polish extreme metal trio formed in 1991

Added: 07/02/2014
8.2

Alcest

Écailles de Lune

Second album of emotional, melodic black metal and shoe-gaze from Frenchman Neige

Added: 20/04/2010
8.2

The National

Sleep Well Beast

Album number seven from the Ohio indie rock band recorded in Aaron Dessner's home studio

Added: 01/09/2017
8.2

The Horrors

Skying

Third album from the Southend quintet, displaying yet another shift in sound, this time to the epic dark pop of the eighties

Added: 30/06/2011
8.2

Sleigh Bells

Treats

Debut album of noise pop from the hotly-tipped New York duo

Added: 25/05/2010
8.2

Sault

Nine

Fifth full-length album from the British R&B collective includes contributions from Little Simz and Michael Ofo

Added: 01/07/2021
8.2

Randy Newman

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol 2

Second of the legendary singer-songwriter's anthology of piano reworkings of his own songs

Added: 09/05/2011
8.2

PinkPantheress

To Hell With It

Debut album from the London singer, songwriter and record producer

Added: 15/10/2021
8.2

Noname

Sundial

Second full-length album from the LA-Based, Chicago-born rapper / poet Fatimah Warner features guest appearances from Eryn Allen Kane, Jay Electronica, Common and Billy Woods,

Added: 12/08/2023
8.2

Napalm Death

Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism

Sixteenth studio album from the Kettering grindcore / death metal quartet produced by Russ Russell (New Model Army, The Exploited)

Added: 18/09/2020
8.2

Mdou Moctar

Afrique Victime

Sixth full-length album from the Tuareg guitarist is his first for the Matador Records

Added: 18/05/2021
8.2

Keeley Forsyth

Limbs

Second album from the Manchester singer-songwriter and actress produced by Ross Downes

Added: 01/03/2022
8.2

Kathryn Joseph

for you who are the wronged

Thurd album from the Inverness-born singer-songwriter co-produced with Lomond Campbell

Added: 22/04/2022
8.2

Jamie xx

In Colour

Debut solo house LP from the xx member, with contributions from Four Tet, Oliver Sim and Young Thug

Added: 23/05/2015
8.2

Hookworms

Microshift

Third album from the Leeds-based psychedelic indie quintet, the first release since the flooding of their former studio

Added: 01/02/2018
8.2

Hiss Golden Messenger

Haw

Fourth album from North Carolina indie folk / alt country and Americana duo MC Taylor and Scott Hirsch

Added: 08/04/2013

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