Every morning, a few records chosen for your ears alone: mostly new releases, the odd forgotten classic. Each one with a number for you and the reasons underneath, so you can see exactly why it made the cut.
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From this week’s Dailies
Mostly new releases, the odd forgotten classic
Why One More Listen
Scored from 168,000 reviews across 1,807 publications.
Records are made to be heard whole. We recommend albums, a handful at a time, never an endless feed.
Until we know your taste, each pick shows what critics think of the album. Your own scores start after 10 ratings and three Dailies: then the score is our guess at your rating, and it says so.
Not hidden behind a button: the biggest reasons sit under each pick, with how much each one moved the number.
How it works
Five minutes to start. Your own scores after 10 ratings and three Dailies.
Twenty quick picks between two albums. Some pairs look off on purpose: that’s how it finds your edges. No streaming account to connect.
A few albums every morning, each with what critics think and a reason from your game choices. Play them wherever you keep your records.
You chose free jazz over smooth jazz, both times
You chose jazz fusion over hard rock
We start with the critics, then switch to you. Your own scores start after 10 ratings and three Dailies: from then every score is our guess at your rating.
At the start
After 3 Dailies and 10 ratings
Same album, LUX. Your own ratings now count more than the game.
Every pick shows its working
Not “because you listened to something similar”. Open any album and see the calculation: where it starts, what pushed it up, what pulled it down, and how sure we are. The numbers add up, and you can check.
Why 8.2?
Bars run from 6 to 9. Until 10 ratings and three Dailies the same ledger starts from the critics instead, and says so.
Liner notes, for every album
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.
Classic · 1963
Donald Byrd
BLUE NOTE · BLP 4124Side 1
Side 2
Donald Byrd trumpet / Hank Mobley tenor sax / Kenny Burrell guitar / Herbie Hancock piano, 22 / Butch Warren bass / Lex Humphries drums / Duke Pearson arranger
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Beyond your Daily
New shelves every Friday, the same card as your Daily, and a quiet look at the weeks ahead.
Out 16 October · 7 reviews
You rated their last album 9
10 reviews
You rated Spirit of Eden 9
Sample cards: the albums and their dates are real, the scores and reasons are made up. Every real shelf and Preview looks like this.
Coming · The thread
Follow a player from record to record: Herbie Hancock from Byrd’s session to his own.
Coming · Classical
Works, not just albums: the composer, the piece, and which recording to start with.
Your month, as a magazine
At the end of each month your listening becomes a cover in your Journal: the album that defined it, what you rated, what surprised you. Flip back through the rack any time.
Hejira led it. 14 rated.
A New Perspective was your 9. 21 rated, 3 surprises.
In progress. 11 rated so far.
Your critics, not everyone’s
Some publications will line up with your taste almost perfectly. Others won’t. One More Listen measures it from your own ratings and weights their opinions accordingly, with the evidence shown.
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