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28 July 2025

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Tyler, The CreatorDon't Tap the Glass

"Half an hour of early 80s rhythms and slick one-liners with the IDGAF attitude of his early years" (8/10 - The Guardian). "A crate-digging party project that favours feel over formula" (8/10 - NME)

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Folk Bitch TrioNow Would Be A Good Time

"Breathtaking vocal harmonies, razor-sharp lyrical edge and delicate darkness set this Melbourne band apart" (10/10 - NME). "In short, it’s gorgeous. All ten tracks. Gorgeous" (9/10 - Far Out)

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Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse BandNew Threats From the Soul

"Jam-packed with arresting turns of phrase, collapsing structures, and revelatory and bizarre unions of form" (9.7/10 - Paste). "An essential new voice in American indie rock" (8.7/10 - Pitchfork)

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LordeVirgin

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

carolineCaroline 2

"Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments" (9/10 - Far Out). "UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists" (8/4/10 - Pitchfork)

StereolabInstant Holograms On Metal Film

"Lætitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever" (8/10 - The Guardian). "This is highbrow music for lowbrow times" (9/10 - Far Out)

Tune-YardsBetter Dreaming

"May just be their most uplifting and inspiring work" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "May emerge as one of the Oakland duo’s all-time great records after a few years’ passage" (7.8/10 - Paste)

Ezra FurmanGoodbye Small Head

"A record of unflinching honesty and unparalleled vulnerability" (9/10 - DIY). "There’s an urgency coursing through this startling album’s veins that confirms its creator to be one of the most exciting songwriters around" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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7.4

Marianne Faithfull

Give My Love To London

20th solo album from the veteran English singer-songwriter with collaboratons with Nick Cave, Anna Calvi and Roger Waters

Added: 26/09/2014
7.4

Mandy, Indiana

I've Seen A Way

Debut full-length album from the Manchester-based industrial post-punk quartet

Added: 19/05/2023
7.4

Lucinda Williams

Blessed

Tenth studio album from the Grammy award winning Americana artist

Added: 21/02/2011
7.4

Lotus Plaza

Spooky Action At A Distance

Indie rock / shoegaze from Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt on his second solo outing

Added: 05/04/2012
7.4

Los Campesinos!

Sick Scenes

Sixth album from the Welsh indie pop band produced by John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney)

Added: 23/02/2017
7.4

Loretta Lynn

Still Woman Enough

Album number fifty from the veteran American country music singer-songwriter with guest appearances from Reba McEntire, Margo Price, Tanya Tucker, and Carrie Underwood

Added: 17/03/2021
7.4

Lightships

Electric Cables

First solo album from Teenage Fanclub's bass player Gerard Love featuring members of The Pastels and Belle and Sebastian

Added: 30/03/2012
7.4

Lana Del Rey

Blue Banisters

Album number eight from the singer-songwriter working with a variety of producers including Zachary Dawes, Loren Humphrey, Mike Dean Barrie-James O'Neill and Rick Nowels

Added: 22/10/2021
7.4

Khruangbin

A LA SALA

Fourth album from the Texan trio influenced by Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music produced by Mark Speer and Steve Christensen

Added: 05/04/2024
7.4

Julia Holter

In The Same Room

The LA-based art pop/experimental singer songwriter's fifth features reworkings of her tracks, recorded over two days in RAK studios in London

Added: 30/03/2017
7.4

John Maus

We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

Third release from the experimental composer from Minnesota

Added: 28/06/2011
7.4

Jim James

Eternally Even

The My Morning Jacket frontman's second solo album of psychedelic indie rock

Added: 04/11/2016
7.4

Jeff Tweedy

Love Is The King

Fourth solo album from the Wilco singer produced with Tom Schick and featureing his sons Spencer and Sammy

Added: 23/10/2020
7.4

James Blake

Playing Robots Into Heaven

Sixth album from the London-born singer-songwriter and electronic producer is his first with no guest artists

Added: 07/09/2023
7.4

Imelda May

Life Love Flesh Blood

Fifth studio record from the Irish singer-songwriter, produced by T Bone Burnett and featuring guest appearances from Jools Holland and Jeff Beck

Added: 05/04/2017
7.4

Hinds

I Don't Run

Second album from the Madrid-based garage rock quartet formerly know as Deers

Added: 04/04/2018
7.4

Halsey

Manic

Third studio album from the New Jersey pop artist Ashley Nicolette Frangipane

Added: 17/01/2020
7.4

Glasser

Ring

Debut album from LA singer-songwriter Cameron Mesirow, regarded by some as one of the debuts of 2010. It's multi-layered gothic electronica / tribal post-punk, likened to Fever Ray & Bat For Lashes

Added: 28/09/2010
7.4

Ghostpoet

I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep

Fifth album of downtempo experimental hiphop from two-time Mercury nominee Obaro Ejimiwe

Added: 01/05/2020
7.4

Francois & The Atlas Mountains

Piano Ombre

More afrobeaty dancey indie pop from the band led by Brussels-based Frenchman François Marry on their second album for Domino

Added: 14/03/2014
7.4

Flock of Dimes

Head Of Roses

Second full-length solo album from Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner recorded at her North Carolina studio

Added: 01/04/2021
7.4

First Aid Kit

Stay Gold

Third album from the Swedish indie folk duo, produced by Mike Mogis

Added: 05/06/2014
7.4

DZ Deathrays

Bloodstreams

Debut album of psychedelic noise rock from this Australian duo, who specialise in house parties

Added: 11/05/2012
7.4

Drive-By Truckers

The Big To-Do

Eighth studio album of Southern rock from Anthens, Georgia six-piece

Added: 10/03/2010
7.4

Death Grips

The Powers That B

Album number five from the California extreme noise-rap trio is a double comprising Niggas on the Moon and Jenny Death

Added: 01/04/2015
7.4

Dead Cross

Dead Cross

Debut full-length release from the Southern Californian hardcore punk supergroup

Added: 03/08/2017
7.4

David Rawlings

Poor David's Almanack

Third solo album from the singer-songwriter and guitarist includes longtime musical partner Gillian Welch who co-wrote five of the songs

Added: 11/08/2017
7.4

Damien Jurado

Visions Of Us On The Land

The Seattle-based indie folk singer-songwriter's 12th album produced by Richard Swift (The Shins, Nathaniel Rateliff, Laetitia Sadier)

Added: 17/03/2016
7.4

Crime & The City Solution

American Twilight

After a break of 22 years, the Aussie post punk band release a new album, recorded in Detroit

Added: 28/03/2013
7.4

Childish Gambino

"Awaken, My Love!"

Third full-length album from actor, comedian, scriptwriter and rapper Donald Glover produced by Ludwig Göransson

Added: 02/12/2016

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