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1 August 2025

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Reneé RappBite Me

"Hell-raising rocker parties her troubles away on her uproarious second album" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "It’s a record that is cut from her very core, completely on her own terms" (10/10 - Dork)

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The New EvesThe New Eve Is Rising

"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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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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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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7.2

Field Music

Music for Drifters

The fifth album from Sunderland brothers David and Peter Brewis is the soundtrack to a fishing documentary by Scottish filmmaker John Grierson

Added: 22/07/2015
7.2

Dylan LeBlanc

Paupers Field

Debut album of Americana from the 20-year-old Louisiana singer-songwriter, likened to Neil Young and Ryan Adams

Added: 23/08/2010
7.2

Drake

Take Care

The second full-length hip-hop set by the one-time actor from Canada

Added: 14/11/2011
7.2

DJ Paypal

Sold Out

First album on Brainfeeder from the T-shirt-faced Berlin-based producer, with contributions from DJ Taye, Feloneezy and Jackie Dagger

Added: 15/11/2015
7.2

Desaparecidos

Payola

Second album from the reunited Nabraska emo / post-hardcore band led by Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst

Added: 18/06/2015
7.2

De La Soul

And The Anonymous Nobody

Ninth album from the influential New York hip hop trio funded by Kickstarter with contributions from David Byrne, Little Dragon, Damon Albarn, Snoop Dogg and Usher

Added: 22/08/2016
7.2

Cut Copy

Zonoscope

The Australian synth pop group go retro with their third album

Added: 03/02/2011
7.2

Cloud Nothings

Final Summer

Ninth studio album from the Cleveland, Ohio indie punk trio produced by Jeff Zeigler

Added: 19/04/2024
7.2

Ciara

Ciara

Fifth studio album, and first on new label from American pop and r&b star

Added: 08/07/2013
7.2

Brian Eno

Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Polymath Brian Eno teams up with Jon Hopkins and composer Leo Abrahams for an album of ambient electronica.

Added: 27/10/2010
7.2

Ben Watt

Fever Dream

Third solo record from the London singer-songwriter perhaps best known for being one half of Everything but the Girl in the 80s/90s

Added: 12/04/2016
7.2

Baths

Romaplasm

Album number four from the LA-based chilled electronic artist Will Wiesenfeld

Added: 17/11/2017
7.2

Barry Gibb

Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1

Third solo release from the Bee Gees man is a covers album of their songs from the likes of Dolly Parton, Jason Isbell and Gillian Welch, produced by Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, John Prine)

Added: 08/01/2021
7.2

Arlo Parks

My Soft Machine

Second album from London-born singer-songwriter and poet Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho includes a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers

Added: 24/05/2023
7.2

Alicia Keys

Alicia

Seventh album from the Grammy-winning urban soul singer features songwriting and production contributions from her husband Swizz Beatz, Ludwig Göransson, Rob Knox, Johnny McDaid, and The-Dream

Added: 20/09/2020
7.2

A.A. Bondy

Enderness

Fourth solo album and first in eight years from the Alabama alt.folk singer-songwriter and former member of rock band Verbana

Added: 09/05/2019
7.1

Wolf People

Fain

Second batch of psych / folk / blues rock compositions on the Jagjaguwar label from the London quartet, recorded in a Yorkshire Dales bolthole

Added: 03/05/2013
7.1

We Were Promised Jetpacks

These Four Walls

Debut album of indie rock / post-punk from the hotly-tipped Scottish four-piece

Added: 15/06/2009
7.1

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

V

Fifth full-length release by Oregon-based New Zealand psychedelic group recorded in Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawaii

Added: 17/03/2023
7.1

Ty Segall

Fudge Sandwich

Fourth studio album of 2018 by prolific American garage rock artist made up entirely of covers of Funkadelic, Grateful Dead, John Lennon and Neil Young among others

Added: 26/10/2018
7.1

The Men

New Moon

Third album from the Brooklyn hardcore punk outfit following up 2012's well-received second release Open You Heart

Added: 04/03/2013
7.1

The Lemon Twigs

Do Hollywood

Debut album of progressive pop from the Long Island outfit led by teenage brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario

Added: 14/10/2016
7.1

The 2 Bears

The Night Is Young

Second album of upbeat classic house from Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and London DJ Raf Rundell

Added: 09/10/2014
7.1

Steven Wilson

The Future Bites

Sixth studio album of progressive pop from the Porcupine Tree founder co-produced with David Kosten (Bat for Lashes, Marina Diamandis, Everything Everything)

Added: 27/01/2021
7.1

Spider Bags

Frozen Letter

Fourth album of garage rock from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina band

Added: 05/08/2014
7.1

Son Lux

Brighter Wounds

Fifth studio album of post-rock / alt hip-hop from the New York based Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang

Added: 09/02/2018
7.1

Solar Bears

Supermigration

Second album from Irish electronic duo John Kowalski and Rian Trench

Added: 19/04/2013
7.1

Scout Niblett

It’s Up To Emma

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Emma Niblett's 6th collection of bluesy grunge rock songs

Added: 20/05/2013
7.1

Scott And Charlene’s Wedding

Any Port In A Storm

Second album of lo-fi rock from Melbourne-born, New York-based artist Craig Dermody

Added: 18/07/2013
7.1

Sarabeth Tucek

Get Well Soon

Second album of deeply personal, mainly acoustic, songs concerning the death of her father, from the NY singer-songwriter

Added: 01/04/2011

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