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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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7.3

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Rome

Collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and Italian film-score composer Luppi includes contributions from Jack White and Norah Jones

Added: 10/05/2011
7.3

Crystal Stilts

In Love With Oblivion

Second album of noise pop / shoegaze from the Brooklyn five-piece

Added: 08/04/2011
7.3

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CLPPNG

Second LP from Los Angeles trio consisting of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson

Added: 06/06/2014
7.3

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Wolfroy Goes To Town

Latest offering from lo-fi alt.folk legend Will Oldham, this time accompanied by Chicago songwriter Angel Olsen

Added: 11/10/2011
7.3

Beth Orton

Sugaring Season

Fifth studio album from BRIT award winning English singer-songwriter and folk musician, recorded in Portland, Oregon

Added: 27/09/2012
7.3

Bat For Lashes

Lost Girls

Fifth album from baroque pop singer-songwriter Natasha Khan influenced by 1980s music and cinema

Added: 04/09/2019
7.3

Avey Tare

Down There

First solo album of experimental rock from Animal Collective member David Portner

Added: 20/10/2010
7.3

Yvette

Process

Brooklyn two-piece release their debut LP of industrial noise-rock

Added: 14/05/2014
7.3

Yuck

Yuck

Debut album of lo-fi alt.rock from the band formed by former Cajun Dance Party members Max Bloom and Daniel Blumberg

Added: 09/02/2011
7.3

Young Thug

So Much Fun

Second studio album from Atlanta rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams executive produced by J. Cole

Added: 22/08/2019
7.3

Yann Tiersen

Dust Lane

First studio album entirely in English from the French avant-garde merchant.

Added: 08/10/2010
7.3

Woods

With Light & With Love

Album number six from psychedelic folk rockers, fronted by Woodsist label boss Jeremy Earl

Added: 14/04/2014
7.3

Wooden Shjips

Vol 2

Second compilation of rare singles and vintage covers from the San Francisco garage psychedelia specialists

Added: 22/03/2010
7.3

Wishy

Triple Seven

Debut full-length release of indie-pop / shoegaze from the Indianapolis five-piece led by Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites

Added: 19/08/2024
7.3

White Denim

Performance

Eighth studio album from the Austin, Texas group, recorded at their new Radio Milk studio

Added: 22/08/2018
7.3

Vince Clarke

Songs Of Silence

Debut full-length solo release from the Erasure synth-pop musician and songwriter

Added: 17/11/2023
7.3

Various

T2 Trainspotting: OST

Soundtrack to Danny Boyle's latest movie, featuring the likes Iggy Pop, Young Fathers, Wolf Alice, and Underworld

Added: 03/02/2017
7.3

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Funky psych-rock on the much-anticipated debut from the Oregon-based trio led by New Zealander Ruban Nielson

Added: 28/06/2011
7.3

Ufomammut

Oro: Opus Primum

Album no.6 from the Italian sludge / doom metal outfit, a two-CD, five-track first part of a suite

Added: 23/04/2012
7.3

Tune-Yards

BiRd-BrAiNs

Solo release from Sister Suvi member Merrill Garbus, a home-recorded lo-fi debut with plenty ukelele

Added: 17/11/2009
7.3

True Widow

As High As the Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth

Second album from Dallas-based slow-core trio

Added: 02/05/2011
7.3

Trembling Bells

Abandoned Love

Second album from Glasgow folk-rock quartet co-produced by Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson

Added: 26/04/2010
7.3

Trash Kit

Horizon

Third album of lo-fi garage rock and post-punk from the London trio Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Gill Partington

Added: 04/07/2019
7.3

TOY

TOY

The debut album from the hotly-tipped psychedelic krautrock group from London

Added: 05/09/2012
7.3

Tom Jones

Praise & Blame

Album of cover versions from the Welsh singer produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon)

Added: 20/07/2010
7.3

The Unthanks

Diversions, Vol. 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake

Album number nine from the Northumberland folk group features songs and poems written by Nick Drake's mother

Added: 26/05/2017
7.3

The Range

Potential

Second album from the Brooklyn-based electronic producer James Hinton featuring samples of artists he’s discovered on YouTube

Added: 23/03/2016
7.3

The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland

Standards Volume III

Third album from the quartet led by Bill Wells and featuring the voices of Lorna Gilfedder, Aby Vulliamy and Kate Sugden

Added: 18/07/2014
7.3

The Divine Comedy

Bang Goes The Knighthood

Tenth album from the Northern Irish chamber pop band fronted by Neil Hannon

Added: 28/05/2010
7.3

The Corin Tucker Band

1,000 Years

Debut solo album of lo-fi rock from the Sleater-Kinney frontwoman.

Added: 06/10/2010

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