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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

Magnolia Electric Co.

Josephine

Ohio singer-songwriter Jason Molina's 5th offering of lo-fi alt rock as Magnolia Electric Co

Added: 18/07/2009
7.3

Lydia Ainsworth

Darling Of The Afterglow

Second album of experimental indie from the Toronto-based singer-songwriter / composer

Added: 04/04/2017
7.3

Little Simz

A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons

Debut album from the London-born singing/rapping/acting 21 year old

Added: 30/09/2015
7.3

Lamb Of God

Lamb Of God

Album number nine from the Richmond, Virginia groove metal outfit

Added: 19/06/2020
7.3

Kvelertak

Nattesferd

Third album of hard rock/heavy metal from the six-piece based in Rogaland, Norway

Added: 16/05/2016
7.3

Juanita Stein

The Weightless Hour

Fourth solo album from the Melbourne-born Howling Bells frontwoman produced by Ben Hillier (Nadine Shah, Depeche Mode, Graham Coxon)

Added: 01/12/2024
7.3

Jonathan Wilson

Rare Birds

Third album from LA-based singer-songwriter who has also produced albums for Father John Misty and Conor Oberst

Added: 02/03/2018
7.3

JD McPherson

Undivided Heart & Soul

Third record from the Oklahoma R&B influenced singer-songwriter

Added: 06/10/2017
7.3

Humanist

Humanist

Debut album from Exit Calm guitarist Rob Marshall includes appearances from Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan and Ron Sexsmith

Added: 21/02/2020
7.3

Hayden Thorpe

Moondust For My Diamond

Second solo album from the former Wild Beasts frontman and multi-instrumentalist produced by Richard Formby and Nathan Jenkins

Added: 15/10/2021
7.3

Hana Vu

Public Storage

Debut full-length album from the Los Angeles DIY singer-songwriter

Added: 09/11/2021
7.3

Gabe Gurnsey

Physical

Debut full-length solo album from one of the founders of Factory Floor

Added: 03/08/2018
7.3

Earl Sweatshirt

Feet Of Clay

Second EP from LA-based rapper working with producers Thebe Kgositsile, Alchemist and ovrkast

Added: 05/11/2019
7.3

Durand Jones & The Indications

Private Space

Third full-length album from the Indiana retro-soul and R&B group

Added: 30/07/2021
7.3

Dream Wife

So When You Gonna...

Second album of angular indie-pop from the London-based trio

Added: 01/07/2020
7.3

Dirty Projectors

Lamp Lit Prose

Eighth studio album of experimental indie rock from David Longstreth's Brooklyn-based outfit

Added: 09/07/2018
7.3

Deftones

Diamond Eyes

Full-on metal from the Sacramento five-piece with a stand-in bassist on an album to replace on-hold Eros

Added: 06/05/2010
7.3

Deerhoof

La Isla Bonita

Album number twelve from the San Francisco noise pop quartet produced by Nick Sylvester and recorded live in guitarist Ed Rodriguez's basement

Added: 03/11/2014
7.3

Courtney Marie Andrews

Old Flowers

Latest full-length release from the Phoenix, Arizona indie-folk singer-songwriter

Added: 23/07/2020
7.3

Califone

Stitches

Latest from experimental post-rock Chicago outfit fronted by multi-instrumentalist Tim Rutili

Added: 13/09/2013
7.3

Brood Ma

Daze

Third album from the electronic London-based producer James B Stringer

Added: 22/02/2016
7.3

Brian D’Addario

Till The Morning

Debut full-length release from The Lemon Twigs' member produced with his brother Michael D'Addario and Daryl Johns

Added: 21/03/2025
7.3

Bombay Bicycle Club

A Different Kind Of Fix

Third album from the London indie rock quartet is an electric affair after the acoustic second album Flaws

Added: 22/08/2011
7.3

Bill Fay

Who Is The Sender?

Second album in three years from the veteran English singer-songwriter who's previous release had been in 1971

Added: 28/04/2015
7.3

Architects

The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit

Album number ten from the Brighton metal core band produced with Dan Searle

Added: 21/10/2022
7.3

Alicia Keys

Here

Sixth album from the Grammy-winning urban soul singer working with husband Swizz Beats and Mark Batson

Added: 07/11/2016
7.3

Alan Vega

Mutator

Posthumous release of the Suicide frontman's songs recorded with Liz Lamere in 1995-1996 is the first in a series of unreleased and rare material from the Vega Vault

Added: 24/04/2021
7.3

Yeti Lane

The Echo Show

Album No.2 from the French psych pop / shoegaze band, now a duo following the departure of founding member LoAc Carron

Added: 01/03/2012
7.3

Wooden Shjips

West

Latest album from the San Franciscan psychedelic group, this time recorded in a "proper studio."

Added: 01/08/2011
7.3

Why?

Moh Lhean

Fifth album from Jonathan ""Yoni"" Wolf's Californian hip hop and indie rock collective

Added: 03/03/2017

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