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3 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

Rejjie Snow

Baw Baw Black Sheep

Second album from the Dublin-born hip hop artist working with long-term collaborator and Chance The Rapper’s go-to producer Cam O’bi

Added: 09/07/2021
7.1

Rejjie Snow

Dear Annie

Debut album from the Dublin-born hip hop artist and record producer Alexander Anyaegbunam

Added: 16/02/2018
7.1

Reigning Sound

Love and Curses

North Carolina-based garage punk act with their latest release

Added: 28/10/2009
7.1

Ray LaMontagne

Supernova

Fifth studio album from folk rock singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne produced by Dan Auerbach

Added: 30/04/2014
7.1

Rae Sremmurd

SremmLife 2

Second album from the Tupleo, Mississippi hip-hop duo produced by Mike WiLL Made-It

Added: 12/08/2016
7.1

Purling Hiss

Weirdon

Fifth album from the guitar-heavy Philly indie rock trio led by Mike Polizze

Added: 02/10/2014
7.1

PUP

PUP

Debut album of from the Toronto punk quartet formerly know as Topanga

Added: 08/04/2014
7.1

Prins Thomas

Ambitions

Sixth solo album from the Norwegian electro/psychedelia/house artist Thomas Moen Hermansen

Added: 12/04/2019
7.1

Preoccupations

Arrangements

Fourth album from the Calgary post-punks previously known as Viet Cong

Added: 09/09/2022
7.1

Postiljonen

Skyer

Debut full-length release from the Swedish electro dream pop trio

Added: 08/08/2013
7.1

Portico Quartet

Monument

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

Added: 16/11/2021
7.1

Pom Poko

Birthday

Debut full-length release from the Norwegian electronic pop-punk quartet who all trained at the Trondheim Conservatory

Added: 25/02/2019
7.1

Pokey LaFarge

Manic Revelations

Seventh studio record from the Missouri folk/roots singer-songwriter

Added: 18/05/2017
7.1

Pile

All Fiction

Latest full-length album from the Boston indie rock band produced by Kevin S. McMahon

Added: 16/02/2023
7.1

Peter Doherty

Felt Better Alive

Latest solo album from the Libertines and Babyshambles leader

Added: 15/05/2025
7.1

Peggy Gou

I Hear You

Debut full-length album from the Berlin-based DJ and electronic producer featuring guest appearances from Villano Antillano and Lenny Kravitz

Added: 07/06/2024
7.1

PAWS

No Grace

Third album from the Scottish pop punk three piece, produced by Blink 182's Mark Hoppus

Added: 17/06/2016
7.1

Paul Weller

Find El Dorado

Eighteenth full-length solo release from the veteran English rock artist is a covers album with contributions from Amelia Coburn, Noel Gallagher, Seckou Keita, Declan O'Rourke and Robert Plant

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

Manchester Calling

Fourth album from the ex-Beautiful South members recorded in Manchester

Added: 11/03/2020
7.1

Parquet Courts

Tally All The Things That You Broke

The American punk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York follow up their debut album with an EP of post-punk and psych-rock

Added: 08/10/2013
7.1

Palace

Shoals

Third album from the London alt.rock / blues rock quartet

Added: 24/01/2022
7.1

P.O.S

We Don't Even Live Here

Fourth album of indie hip hop from Stefon Alexander, founding member of the Doomtree collective

Added: 02/11/2012
7.1

Ozzy Osbourne

Patient Number 9

Thirteenth solo studio album from the former Black Sabbath singer featuring guest appearances from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Mike McCready, and Zakk Wylde

Added: 09/09/2022
7.1

Over The Wall

Treacherous

Debut album of folk tinged pop rock from the Glasgow duo

Added: 30/11/2010
7.1

Out Cold

Invasion of Love

Cherry Ghost frontman Simon Aldred with a debut solo release of electropop and 80s dance influenced indie pop

Added: 02/09/2013
7.1

Orville Peck

Stampede

Third album from the masked outlaw cowboy singer-songwriter is a series of duets with the the likes of Willi Nelson, Elton John and Beck

Added: 04/08/2024
7.1

Orla Gartland

Woman On The Internet

Debut full-length album from the Irish indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 19/08/2021
7.1

Orbital

Optical Delusion

Tenth studio album from English electronic duo Phil and Paul Hartnoll, with a number of guest appearances including Anna B Savage and Sleaford Mods

Added: 15/02/2023
7.1

Oneida

A List of the Burning Mountains

40-minute two-track vinyl & download only release from the Brooklyn experimental rock / psychedelic noise band, their 12th studio release in 15 years

Added: 20/11/2012
7.1

Omni

Deluxe

Debut album of early 80s influenced post-punk from the Atlanta-based trio featuring former members of Deerhunter and Carnivores

Added: 11/07/2016

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Latest Reviews

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

The TV and theater star’s powerhouse vocals and abundant personality don’t entirely make up for the uneven material and sometimes maudlin production of her second album Pitchfork

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

Throughout BITE ME, Rapp serves up plenty of wry pop charisma, which is more than enough to sink your teeth into All Music

Tyler, The Creator Don't Tap the Glass

The Californian rapper’s ninth solo album is even more unexpected than usual The FT

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