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7 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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6.8

The Wave Pictures

Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon

The latest release from the English rock veterans is co-written and produced by one of their all time heroes Billy Childish

Added: 16/02/2015
6.8

The Regrettes

How Do You Love?

Second album from the Los Angeles-based punk band led by frontwoman Lydia Night

Added: 09/08/2019
6.8

The Mountain Goats

Bleed Out

Album number twenty-one from the lo-fi indie folk band led by John Darnielle was produced by Alicia Bognanno

Added: 19/08/2022
6.8

The Killers

Day And Age

Third album from the platinum-selling rock band

Added: 19/11/2008
6.8

The Hold Steady

Heaven Is Whenever

The supposedly 'less anthemic' 5th album from the Brooklyn alt.rockers

Added: 26/04/2010
6.8

The Go! Team

The Scene Between

Fourth album of indie dance/hip-hop from the Brighton's Ian Parton, this time written and produced without his five bandmates

Added: 23/03/2015
6.8

The Dodos

Individ

Sixth album from the San Francisco psych folk duo Logan Kroeber and Meric Long

Added: 23/01/2015
6.8

The Cure

4:13 Dream

Album number 13 from the indefagitable Robert Smith and his enduring band

Added: 30/10/2008
6.8

The Chieftains

Voice of Ages

The celebrated Irish traditional group with an array of guests on their 50th anniversary outing, including Bon Iver, Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Decembrists and the Low Anthem

Added: 22/04/2012
6.8

The Apples in Stereo

Travellers in Space and Time

Indie rock and pop on the 7th album from the band led by Elephant 6 label co-founder Robert Schneider

Added: 29/04/2010
6.8

The Amazing

Ambulance

Fourth album from the Swedish psych-rock / psych-folk five-piece featuring former members of Granada and Dungen

Added: 23/07/2016
6.8

Suzanne Vega

Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles

Eighth studio album, and first for seven years to feature new material, from the Californian singer-songwriter

Added: 04/02/2014
6.8

Speech Debelle

Freedom Of Speech

Second hip hop album from South London rapper whose debut won the Mercury Prize

Added: 03/02/2012
6.8

Ryan Adams And The Cardinals

Cardinology

Latest batch of alt country / rock from the singer-songwriter and his backing band, who have now parted company

Added: 05/11/2008
6.8

Röyksopp

Junior

Norwegian eclectic dance duo plus assorted Scandinavian collaborators, with their third studio album

Added: 20/03/2009
6.8

Rachel Zeffira

The Deserters

Canadian classically-trained soprano and multi-instrumentalist, who was one half of Cat’s Eyes with Horrors frontman Faris Badwan, with a debut album of baroque pop

Added: 10/12/2012
6.8

Princess Nokia

Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks

Simultaneous release for two albums from the New York rapper Destiny Frasqueri

Added: 02/03/2020
6.8

Papercuts

Life Among the Savages

Album no. 6 from the San Francisco indie pop group led by Jason Robert Quever

Added: 08/05/2014
6.8

Paolo Nutini

Sunny Side Up

Pop / soul on the second album from the Scottish singer-songwriter

Added: 29/05/2009
6.8

Oscar

Cut and Paste

Debut album of indie pop from the Londoner

Added: 18/05/2016
6.8

Omni

Multi-task

Second album of indie post-punk from the Atlanta, GA trio

Added: 22/09/2017
6.8

Omni

Networker

Third album of indie post-punk from the Atlanta, Georgia trio

Added: 01/11/2019
6.8

Obits

Beds & Bugs

The Brooklyn-based band led by guitarist and vocalist Rick Froberg wqith their 3rd album of garage punk

Added: 10/09/2013
6.8

Mykki Blanco

Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep

Mini album from the Orange County-born rapper, performance artist, poet and activist produced by FaltyDL

Added: 18/06/2021
6.8

Mourn

Ha, Ha, He.

Second album from the Catalonian punk band fronted by Carla Pérez Vas

Added: 03/06/2016
6.8

Minor Victories

Minor Victories

A collaborative project featuring members of Mogwai, Slowdive, and Editors

Added: 01/06/2016
6.8

Mike Wexler

Dispossession

Second album from the Brooklyn singer-songwriter who blends folk, jazz, psychedelia, synths and more

Added: 25/03/2012
6.8

Micachu & The Shapes

Chopped & Screwed

Second album of experimental leftfield pop from Mica Levi recorded live with The London Sinfonietta

Added: 25/03/2011
6.8

Metallica

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Tenth studio record from the metal stalwarts, a double album

Added: 17/11/2016
6.8

Merchandise

After The End

Self-recorded third LP from the Floridian three piece, mixed with the help of Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, These New Puritans, Grizzly Bear)

Added: 21/08/2014

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