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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)

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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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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

Old 97's

Graveyard Whistling

Eleventh studio record from the Texas alt country group fronted by Rhett Miller

Added: 24/02/2017
7.1

Old 97's

Twelfth

Twelfth studio record from the Texas alt country group fronted by Rhett Miller

Added: 21/08/2020
7.1

Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm

Collaborative Works

A collection of works from the two neo-classical/ambient composers, including 7 new songs from their film Trance Frendz

Added: 30/10/2015
7.1

of Montreal

UR FUN

Album number sixteen from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock artist Kevin Barnes

Added: 16/01/2020
7.1

Odonis Odonis

Hard Boiled Soft Boiled

Second album of industrial shoegaze from the Toronto-based band fronted by Dean Tzenos

Added: 18/04/2014
7.1

O. Children

Apnea

Second album from the London indie rock quartet whose frontman Tobi O'Kandi was recently threatened with deportation

Added: 07/06/2012
7.1

Nurses

Apple's Acre

Portland-based Aaron Chapman and John Bowers with their psych-rock follow up to their self-produced debut

Added: 08/09/2009
7.1

Norah Jones

Day Breaks

Sixth solo album from the jazz/pop singer-songwriter

Added: 11/10/2016
7.1

Norah Jones

Visions

Ninth album from the jazz/pop singer-songwriter produced by Leon Michels

Added: 14/03/2024
7.1

Nine Inch Nails

Add Violence

Second in a trilogy of EPs from Trent Reznor's cult industrial rock band

Added: 24/07/2017
7.1

Nils Frahm

All Encores

Three recent EPs from the ambient electronic composer from Hamburg, Germany brought together in this release

Added: 23/10/2019
7.1

Nation Of Language

Strange Disciple

Third album from the Brooklyn indie pop trio produced by Holy Ghost! member Nick Millhiser

Added: 18/09/2023
7.1

Nas

King's Disease

Thirteenth album from the NYC rapper includes guest appearances from The Firm, Anderson Paak, ASAP Ferg, Big Sean and additional vocals by Dr. Dre

Added: 27/08/2020
7.1

Nancy Elizabeth

Dancing

Lancashire singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist with her third album of alt.folk

Added: 22/05/2013
7.1

Nadia Reid

Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs

Debut album from the Auckland, New Zealand singer-songwriter

Added: 18/12/2015
7.1

My Morning Jacket

The Waterfal II

Eighth album of psychedelic indie rock from the Kentucky veterans consists of tracks from the same recording sessions as The Waterfall (2105)

Added: 14/07/2020
7.1

My Latest Novel

Deaths And Entrances

Scottish folk-rock fivepiece with their second album

Added: 03/06/2009
7.1

Mutual Benefit

Thunder Follows The Light

Third album of indie folk/rock from multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lee's project

Added: 01/10/2018
7.1

Mush

Lines Redacted

Second full-length album from the Leeds art-rock trio

Added: 12/02/2021
7.1

Mr Mitch

Parallel Memories

Debut full-length grime release from South London producer Miles Mitchell

Added: 01/12/2014
7.1

Morgan Delt

Morgan Delt

Debut album of 60s-inspired indie pop from the Californian singer-songwriter, a bulked-up, repackaged version of 2013's cassette-only release Psychic Death Hole

Added: 31/01/2014
7.1

Mogwai

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

The Glaswegian post-rock quintet follow up last year's live album with their seventh studio release

Added: 31/01/2011
7.1

Mister Lies

Mowgli

Debut full-length album of downtempo electronic trip hop from 20 year old Chicago-based producer Nick Zanca, under the alias Mister Lies

Added: 07/03/2013
7.1

Minotaur Shock

Orchard

Bristol-based producer David Edwards continues to blur the line between electronica, acoustic alt-folk and found sounds on his 5th album

Added: 21/08/2012
7.1

Mike Krol

Turkey

LA-based multi-instrumentalist release his third album of garage rock/pop, his first on Merge Records

Added: 04/09/2015
7.1

Mike Krol

Power Chords

Fourth album of garage rock/pop from the LA-based multi-instrumentalist

Added: 25/01/2019
7.1

Mick Turner

Don't Tell the Driver

Touted as the 'first post-rock rock opera of our times' this is the 4th solo offering from the Dirty Three guitarist, and first in 10 years

Added: 21/11/2013
7.1

Mick Harvey

Delirium Tremens

Eight solo album from he Australian musician and Nick Cave collaborator, his third of Serge Gainsbourg covers, sung in English

Added: 24/06/2016
7.1

Metric

Fantasies

The four-piece Canadian indie band, with a fourth album mixing rock, electro and psychedelia

Added: 27/04/2009
7.1

Mercury Rev

Born Horses

Latest release from the New York dream pop outfit is their first in nine years

Added: 09/09/2024

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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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