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30 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

DVA

Pretty Ugly

Leon Smart's latest release for influential label Hyperdub is an exercise is future funk and dubstep

Added: 14/03/2012
7.3

Disclosure

Settle

Surrey brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence with their debut collection of old-school garage and house inspired dance music

Added: 30/05/2013
7.3

Diagrams

Chromatics

Second album of folktronica, indie pop and psychedelic electronica from former Tunng singer and producer Sam Genders

Added: 15/01/2015
7.3

Death Grips

Year Of The Snitch

Sixth studio album from the California-based experimental hip-hop trio

Added: 01/07/2018
7.3

Craig Finn

We All Want The Same Things

Third solo record from The Hold Steady frontman

Added: 20/03/2017
7.3

Cola

The Gloss

Second album from the post-punk Canadian trio

Added: 14/06/2024
7.3

caroline

caroline

Debut full-length album from the London-based eight-member group incorporates midwest emo, Appalachian folk and post-rock

Added: 01/03/2022
7.3

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Genuine Negro Jig

Second foot stomping release from the African American old time string band based in North Carolina

Added: 25/01/2010
7.3

Butcher Boy

Helping Hands

Album No.3 from the Glasgow indie pop / folk eight-piece

Added: 25/08/2011
7.3

Bombino

Azel

Third official international release of desert blues from Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar working with Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth

Added: 11/04/2016
7.3

Barn Owl

Ancestral Star

Ominous, pastoral, drone based psychedelia from the San Francisco two-piece.

Added: 03/11/2010
7.3

Anohni

Paradise EP

EP of soulful electronica from the former singer of Antony and the Johnsons, produced by Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke is a companion piece to debut LP Hopelessness

Added: 17/03/2017
7.2

Woods

City Sun Eater In The River Of Light

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

Added: 12/04/2016
7.2

Walls

Coracle

Second album from Alessio Natalizia (Banjo or Freakout) and Sam Willis (Allez-Allez), encompassing electronica, ambient, chillwave and more

Added: 10/10/2011
7.2

Twerps

Twerps

Debut album from the Australian lo-fi garage indie pop quartet

Added: 12/12/2011
7.2

Trembling Bells

The Constant Pageant

Third album of folk rock from the prolific Glasgow group

Added: 15/04/2011
7.2

Toro Y Moi

Underneath the Pine

Second album of chillwave from South Carolina-born one-man band Chaz Bundick

Added: 19/02/2011
7.2

The Radio Dept.

Clinging to a Scheme

Much-delayed third album from the Swedish indie pop trio

Added: 14/04/2010
7.2

The Flaming Lips

Embryonic

The return of Wayne Coyne's alt.rock and psychedelia outfit with a double album, their first for 3 years

Added: 08/10/2009
7.2

Teengirl Fantasy

7am

Chilled house / dream pop on the debut from Amsterdam-based Ohio students Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss

Added: 30/09/2010
7.2

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Let It Sway

Fourth album of melodic power pop from the Missouri quartet

Added: 13/08/2010
7.2

Silver Columns

Yes And Dance

Experimental electro-pop on the debut album from electronica duo Adem Ilhan and Johnny Lynch (The Pictish Trail)

Added: 24/05/2010
7.2

Robert Pollard

Lord of the Birdcage

Latest collection of heartfelt indie rock songs from the hyper-productive former Guided By Voices frontman

Added: 22/06/2011
7.2

Ratking

So It Goes

Debut LP from the NYC rap trio Patrick 'Wiki' Morales, MC Hak and Sporting Life

Added: 07/04/2014
7.2

Lana Del Rey

Lust for Life

Fourth record from the American singer-songwriter, featuring A$AP Rocky, Stevie Nicks, Sean Lennon, and Playboi Carti

Added: 21/07/2017
7.2

Kylie Minogue

DISCO

Album number fifteen from Australian-born pop singer-songwriter influenced by 1970s and 1980s disco along with modern-day club music

Added: 05/11/2020
7.2

Kylie Minogue

Tension II

Album number seventeen from Australian-born pop singer-songwriter featureing contributions from Diplo, Tove Lo, Bebe Rexha, Orville Peck, Sia and The Blessed Madonna

Added: 18/10/2024
7.2

Kill It Kid

Kill It Kid

Bluegrass, blues, jive and assorted Americana on the debut from the Bath-based band

Added: 21/10/2009
7.2

Josh Ritter

So Runs The World Away

Seventh album of alt country / neo folk from the Idaho-born singer-songwriter

Added: 03/08/2010
7.2

Heartless Bastards

The Mountain

Third release by the Ohio garage rock band

Added: 30/03/2009

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