DailyThursday 12 November · 1 of 5
Donald Byrd
A New Perspective · 1963
8.2for you
You rate Herbie Hancock and Hank Mobley highly, and both play here.
See why →The albums you’d love, if only you knew they existed.
Every morning, five albums chosen around your taste: overlooked records, worthwhile new releases and the occasional outside bet. See what critics thought and why each one was chosen.
One More Listen doesn’t stream music. Press play in Spotify, Apple Music, Qobuz or wherever you already listen.
From this week’s Dailies
Old and new, famous and forgotten
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Bill Evans Trio
America
John Fahey
Savane
Ali Farka Touré
Iconoclasts
Anna von Hausswolff
Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk
Just Another Diamond Day
Vashti Bunyan
Parallelograms
Linda Perhacs
Why One More Listen
Streaming gave us every album ever made. It forgot to tell us which ones to play.
Albums, not tracks
Records are made to be heard whole. We recommend five at a time: not an endless feed, and never a shuffle.
Fewer, better choices
Overlooked records, worthwhile new releases and the occasional outside bet. Enough to discover something, not enough to become homework.
A score that shows its work
At first you see what critics thought. As you rate albums, One More Listen learns your taste and predicts what you’d give each record. Open the score to see why.
How it works
Three steps to your next favourite record.
1
Show us your taste
Choose between twenty pairs of albums. Some are close calls. Those are often the choices that teach us the most. No streaming account needed.
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
Choice 7 of 20
Play Head to head →The game opens with your invite.
2
Get five albums each morning
Five records worth your time, each with what critics thought, why it was chosen and where to press play.
Ornette Coleman
Town Hall, 1962
You chose free jazz over smooth jazz, both times
Chick Corea
Secret Agent
You chose jazz fusion over hard rock
3
Rate what you hear
Every rating sharpens tomorrow’s picks. Save albums for later, dismiss the ones that miss, and keep a record of what you heard.
At the start
9.2
Critics 9.2 · 9 reviewsAfter 3 Dailies and 10 ratings
8.1
for youSame album, LUX. Your own ratings now count more than the game.
At first, scores show what critics think. Once we have enough of your ratings, they become our prediction of what you’ll give each album.
Every pick shows its working
See exactly why an album was chosen.
Open “How we got 8.2” to see where the score started, what moved it up or down and how sure we are.
Why 8.2?
Donald Byrd, A New Perspective
42 ratings · 6 reviews
Starting pointWhere every pick starts: 42 ratings
6.9Players you rate highlyHerbie Hancock (Maiden Voyage, 9), Hank Mobley (Soul Station, 8)
+0.7Critics who hear like youAllMusic 9: it agrees with you more often than not
+0.4A corner you loveBlue Note, 1960s: 9 albums rated, average 8.3
+0.3Choir and voicesYou’ve rated vocal jazz lower than instrumental
−0.1For you
8.2Bars run from 6 to 9. Until 10 ratings and three Dailies the same ledger starts from the critics instead, and says so.
And when you want more
Go further when you want to.
Lists
Lists worth your Friday
Three personal lists every Friday, plus lists we curate for the genres you love.
Just arrived
New releases from artists you love, or artists close to them.
The Avalanches
No Bad Memories
Out 16 October · 7 reviews
You rated their last album 9
Hidden gems
Albums critics loved that most listeners passed by.
Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis · 1998
10 reviews
You rated Spirit of Eden 9
Challenge me
Acclaimed records just outside your usual territory.
Ornette Coleman
Town Hall, 1962
4 reviews
You chose free jazz over smooth jazz, both times
Classical
Classical, organised properly.
Browse composers, works, performers and recordings, not a pile of albums filed under a name.
Liner notes
Who played, where it was recorded and what to hear first.
Every album opens like the back of a sleeve: the tracks by side, the players with their instruments, who produced it and where it was recorded. Then tell us what you thought.
Preview
See what’s coming
Follow upcoming albums from artists already in your taste world, with a reminder on release day.
Your critics, not everyone’s
Find the reviewers who hear what you hear.
As you rate more albums, we learn which reviewers tend to agree with you. Their opinions become one signal in your picks, not a universal verdict.
Trusted sources
How often you agree
The GuardianOften
UncutUsually
AllMusicSometimes
PitchforkRarely
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