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2 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)

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

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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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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7.1

SASAMI

SASAMI

Debut album from LA-based singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth

Added: 05/03/2019
7.1

Ron Sexsmith

Forever Endeavour

13th album of melancholic pop / folk from Canadian singer-sonwriter produced by Mitchell Froom (Crowded House, Suzanne Vega)

Added: 05/02/2013
7.1

Quilt

Plaza

Third album of psychedelica / dream-pop from Boston-bred, Brooklyn-based band

Added: 26/02/2016
7.1

PVT

Church With No Magic

Second album of electronic math rock from Australian trio (previously known as Pivot)

Added: 29/07/2010
7.1

Pond

Beard Wives Denim

Fourth album from the Perth, Australia psych-rock quintet featuring members of Tame Impala

Added: 07/03/2012
7.1

Pixies

Doggerel

Eighth album from the the Boston alt.rock legends and fourth since they reformed

Added: 29/09/2022
7.1

Pale Waves

Who Am I?

Second album from the Mancunian indie pop four-piece recorded primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey [Muse, Sigur Rós, Foo Fighters]

Added: 11/02/2021
7.1

Mutual Benefit

Skip a Sinking Stone

Second physical LP release from Jordan Lee's lo-fi indie folk project

Added: 18/05/2016
7.1

Meg Baird

Don't Weigh Down the Light

Fourth solo album from the San Francisco-based folk singer and Espers frontwoman

Added: 21/06/2015
7.1

M. Ward

Migration Stories

Tenth album from the Californian indie/folk singer-songwriter recorded in Quebec with Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury and Richard Reed Parry and with production from The Suburbs engineer Craig Silvey

Added: 03/04/2020
7.1

M. Ward

Hold Time

The indie/folksinger-songwriter and guitarist with his seventh album

Added: 13/02/2009
7.1

Luluc

Sculptor

Third album from the Australian indie-folk duo working with Aaron Dessner, Matt Eccles, J Mascis, Dave Nelson and Jim White

Added: 12/07/2018
7.1

Lower Dens

The Competition

Fourth album from the Baltimore indie pop duo Jana Hunter and Nate Nelson

Added: 05/09/2019
7.1

Le1f

Riot Boi

Debut LP of hip-hop and rap from Khalif Diouf, who also runs the hip hop label Camp & Street

Added: 13/11/2015
7.1

Kiran Leonard

Grapefruit

Second album from the 20 year old Mancunian indie rocker

Added: 22/03/2016
7.1

Kesha

Gag Order

Fifth album from the Nashville, Tennessee pop singer working with producers Rick Rubin, Stuart Crichton, Jason Lader, Jussifer, Drew Pearson and Stint

Added: 18/05/2023
7.1

K-X-P

II

Second album from the Finnish outfit, dealing in electro, krautrock, synthpop and post-punk

Added: 08/02/2013
7.1

Harper Simon

Harper Simon

Paul Simon's son with his debut album of melodic indie pop /rock songs, two of which were written by Simon Snr

Added: 06/04/2010
7.1

Gallows

Gallows

The first album from the Watford punk group since the departure of their lead singer, Frank Carter, replaced by former Alexisonfire singer, Wade MacNeil

Added: 07/09/2012
7.1

Eels

Hombre Lobo

More alt.rock melody from LA's Mark Oliver Everett on the 7th album

Added: 01/06/2009
7.1

Dutch Uncles

Cadenza

Second album from Manchester indie pop five-piece

Added: 22/04/2011
7.1

Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Lo-fi indie / power pop on the debut album proper after a series of highly-rated EPs from Cleveland teenager Dylan Baldi

Added: 25/01/2011
7.1

Cherry Glazerr

Apocalipstick

Second studio album of indie garage rock, led by Clementine Creevy

Added: 19/01/2017
7.1

Chad VanGaalen

Light Information

Sixth album of spacey indie rock from the Calgary, Alberta multi-instrumentalist, producer, animator and director

Added: 07/09/2017
7.1

Cavern Of Anti-Matter

Hormone Lemonade

Third album from the experimental electronica / Krautrock band led by Stereolab founder Tim Gane and featuring his former bandmate Joe Dilworth

Added: 21/03/2018
7.1

BC Camplight

How to Die in the North

Third album from US-born, Manchester-based songwriter and past War on Drugs live member Brian Christinzio

Added: 15/01/2015
7.1

Ariel Pink

Pom Pom

A double album of far-out psych rock from LA-based Ariel Marcus Rosenberg

Added: 14/11/2014
7.1

Andrew Bird

Noble Beast

Fourth album of eclectic sounds from the multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist American songwriter, singer, violinist, guitarist and whistler

Added: 22/01/2009
7.1

Amber Arcades

European Heartbreak

Second album from Dutch-born musician Annelotte de Graaf co-produced with Deerhoof's Chris Cohen and Trey Pollard

Added: 01/10/2018
7.1

Sinkane

Mean Love

Third album from Sudanese-born, New York-based Ahmad Gallub merges Afro-funk, soul and krautrock

Added: 29/08/2014

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