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6 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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6.9

Panic! At The Disco

Viva Las Vengeance

Seventh album from Brendon Urie's indie rock project produced with Jake Sinclair (Fall Out Boy, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pink) and Mike Viola (Ryan Adams, Mandy Moore and Jenny Lewis)

Added: 20/08/2022
6.9

Pale Blue Eyes

Souvenirs

Debut full-length release from the Devon-based pop trio was self-recorded and produced

Added: 08/09/2022
6.9

Olga Bell

Krai

Dirty Projectors keyboardist and singer, born in Moscow, releases her second LP inspired by the lesser-known areas of Russia and sung entirely in Russian

Added: 07/05/2014
6.9

Ok Go

And The Adjacent Possible

Fifth studio album, and first in eleven years, from the Chicago indie rock band produced with Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Mogwai, The Flaming Lips)

Added: 14/04/2025
6.9

Nozinja

Nozinja Lodge

Latest release from the South African producer, DJ and pioneer of Shangaan electro

Added: 02/06/2015
6.9

Nosaj Thing

Home

Second album of electronica from the LA-based hip hop producer

Added: 21/01/2013
6.9

No Age

An Object

Album number four from LA lo-fi indie rock duo Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt

Added: 12/08/2013
6.9

Ne-Yo

Libra Scale

Fourth album from the American R&B and pop star, this outing a concept album featuring three garbagemen who face a grave moral choice

Added: 24/11/2010
6.9

Mick Jenkins

Wave[s]

Debut EP release from the 24-year old Chicago rapper

Added: 26/08/2015
6.9

Michael Mayer

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Latest release from the Kompakt co-founder, remixer, DJ, and producer

Added: 04/11/2016
6.9

Mazes

A Thousand Heys

Debut album from Manchester quartet influenced by late 80s, early 90s US alt-rock

Added: 08/04/2011
6.9

Mayer Hawthorne

Where Does This Door Go

Fourth album from Michigan-born purveyor of old school soul music with contributions from Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar and Jesse Ware

Added: 15/07/2013
6.9

Martha Wainwright

Come Home To Mama

Third studio album from the Canadian folk /rock singer-songwiter includes a song written by her mother the late Kate McGarrigle

Added: 11/10/2012
6.9

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood

Black Pudding

First studio collaboration between the former Screaming Trees frontman and the London-based multi-instrumentalist

Added: 13/05/2013
6.9

London Grammar

If You Wait

Much-anticipated debut album from the UK pop / art pop trio pitched somewhere between the xx and Florence and the Machine, having guested on Disclosure's album

Added: 04/09/2013
6.9

Larkin Poe

Bloom

Seventh album from the Georgia roots rock band led by Rebecca and Megan Lovell

Added: 30/01/2025
6.9

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Fishing For Fishes

Album number fourteen from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece

Added: 26/04/2019
6.9

Kimbra

Primal Heart

Third album from the New Zealand singer, encompassing electropop, soul and R&B working with Natasha Bedingfield, Skrillex and John Congleton

Added: 22/04/2018
6.9

Kelly Clarkson

chemistry

Tenth studio album from the pop/rock singer featuring contributions from Carly Rae Jepsen, Nick Jonas, Steve Martin and Sheila E

Added: 05/07/2023
6.9

Keaton Henson

Kindly Now

Sixth album from the London folk-rock singer-songwriter, visual artist and poet

Added: 15/09/2016
6.9

Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police

Solo album number eighteen from the former member of indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls and The Lemonheads is a cover album of songs by The Police

Added: 15/11/2019
6.9

Joyce Manor

40 Oz. To Fresno

The California quartet's sixth studio album of pop/rock produced by Rob Schnapf (Tokyo Police Club, Ducktails, The Vines)

Added: 14/06/2022
6.9

John Mellencamp

Sad Clowns & Hillbillies

Album number twenty three from the rock roots singer-songwriter and guitarist features Carlene Carter

Added: 01/05/2017
6.9

John Carpenter

Lost Themes III

Latest release from the legendary film director and composer working again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies

Added: 03/02/2021
6.9

Jerry Lee Lewis

Rock & Roll Time

The Rock n Roll veteran's latest is a collection of blues, rock-and-roll and country covers featuring the likes of Keith Richards and Neil Young

Added: 28/10/2014
6.9

Iggy Pop

Free

Eighteenth solo album from the legendary singer and former Stooges frontman

Added: 04/09/2019
6.9

Hello Skinny

Hello Skinny

Debut solo release from London-based drummer-turned-producer Tom Skinner, encompassing jazz, electronica, trip hop, dub and more

Added: 09/11/2012
6.9

Heliotropes

A Constant Sea

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based all-girl psych rock quartet

Added: 01/07/2013
6.9

Hannah Cohen

Pleasure Boy

Second album from the New York-based singer-songwriter

Added: 13/04/2015
6.9

HAAi

Baby, We're Ascending

Debut full-length release from the London-based Australian DJ/producer working with Jon Hopkins and featuring guest appearances from Obi Franky, poet Kai-Isaiah Jamal and Alexis Taylor

Added: 27/05/2022

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