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29 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

Why Bonnie

90 In November

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based indie rock quintet

Added: 22/08/2022
7.3

Ulver

The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

Thirteenth studio album from the Norwegian experimental black metal collective

Added: 09/04/2017
7.3

The Mynabirds

Generals

Political indie pop on the second album from Washington singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn

Added: 06/06/2012
7.3

The Leisure Society

The Fine Art of Hanging On

Fourth LP from Nick Hemming's folk-pop group

Added: 13/04/2015
7.3

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Meat And Bone

The NY trio return after an eight-year break to continue their garage blues assault

Added: 14/09/2012
7.3

The Futureheads

Powers

Sixth album and first for seven years from the Sunderland indie rock quartet who reformed in January 2019

Added: 29/08/2019
7.3

The Fall

Your Future Our Clutter

Twenty eighth studio album from Mark E Smith's band and first on Domino Records

Added: 14/04/2010
7.3

The Cranberries

In the End

Eighth and final album from the Irish alternative rock group following the death of singer Dolores O'Riordan in January 2018, produced by Stephen Street

Added: 24/04/2019
7.3

The Chills

Silver Bullets

First album in nineteen years from the New Zealand indie pop group led by Martin Phillipps

Added: 30/10/2015
7.3

Syd Arthur

Apricity

Fourth studio album from the jazzy Canterbury psych rock band

Added: 03/11/2016
7.3

Sonny & The Sunsets

Talent Night At The Ashram

A series of psychedelic-sounding songs originally conceived as short films from the mercurial singer songwriter

Added: 18/02/2015
7.3

Sloan

The Double Cross

Album number ten from the Toronto alt.rock quartet celebrating the 20th anniversary of their first gig

Added: 12/05/2011
7.3

Shamir

Shamir

Latest album from the Las Vegas-born, Philadelphia-based electronic pop singer-songwriter

Added: 02/10/2020
7.3

Seth Lakeman

Tales From The Barrel House

Sixth album in ten years from this folk musician, hailing from Devon, England

Added: 28/03/2012
7.3

Sd Laika

That's Harakiri

Debut LP of dark grime from Milwaukee's Peter Runge, following 2011's Unknown Vectors EP

Added: 28/04/2014
7.3

Scout Niblett

The Calcination of Scout Niblett

Sixth album of raw minimal indie rock arrangements from English singer-songwriter Emma Louise Niblett

Added: 22/01/2010
7.3

Sarah Davachi

Cantus, Descant

Latest release from the Canadian electronic sound artist features recordings of church organs from around the world

Added: 18/09/2020
7.3

Ross From Friends

Family Portrait

Debut full-length album from the British electronic producer Felix Clary Weatherall

Added: 25/07/2018
7.3

Robyn

Body Talk Pt. 2

Second of the three Body Talk albums to be released in 2010 from the Swedish electro-pop singer-songwriter

Added: 02/09/2010
7.3

Robert Glasper

Black Radio III

Latest album from the Houston-born pianist, record producer, songwriter

Added: 02/03/2022
7.3

Punch Brothers

All Ashore

Fifth album from the Brooklyn-based progressive bluegrass five-piece

Added: 20/07/2018
7.3

Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet

Third album from the London group, melding electronica, experimental jazz, dance and rock

Added: 25/01/2012
7.3

Pond

Man It Feels Like Space Again

Sixth album from the Australian psych-rock band produced Tame Impala's Kevin Parker

Added: 26/01/2015
7.3

Peaches

Rub

Sixth studio album from the Toronto-born electroclash, dance-punk artist, featuring guest vocals by Kim Gordon and Feist

Added: 23/09/2015
7.3

Old 97's

Most Messed Up

Rhett Miller's alt. country stalwarts' latest release celebrates their 20 year anniversary

Added: 01/05/2014
7.3

Obongjayar

Some Nights I Dream of Doors

Debut album from the London-based Nigerian spoken word artist Steven Umoh

Added: 13/05/2022
7.3

Niki And The Dove

Instinct

Debut album from the much-tipped Swedish electro-pop duo, who featured in the BBC Sound of 2012 list

Added: 10/05/2012
7.3

Mount Kimbie

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Second album of post-dubstep from London-based duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos

Added: 20/05/2013
7.3

Mega Bog

Life, and another

Sixth full-length album from singer-songwriter Erin Birgy features contributions from Krivchenia, Duffy and Andrew Dorset of Lake

Added: 02/08/2021
7.3

Marlon Williams

Marlon Williams

Debut from the New Zealand-born alt.country singer-songwriter

Added: 17/02/2016

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