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8 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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6.7

Active Child

Mercy

Second album of electronic indie pop from LA-based musician Pat Grossi

Added: 28/06/2015
6.7

Acoustic Ladyland

Living With a Tiger

Fourth album from the London jazz / rock fusion outfit

Added: 08/07/2009
6.7

Tori Amos

Night of Hunters

Album number twelve and first for the classical label Deutsche Grammophon for the American singer-songwriter

Added: 15/09/2011
6.7

The Dead Weather

Sea Of Cowards

Second album from American alt.rock supergroup including Jack White and Alison Mosshart of The Kills

Added: 07/05/2010
6.7

School of Seven Bells

Disconnect from Desire

Second album of electronic dream pop and shoegaze from New York three piece

Added: 05/07/2010
6.7

Phoenix

Ti Amo

Sixth album from the French synth pop band

Added: 08/06/2017
6.7

Male Bonding

Endless Now

Second album from the London noise pop trio

Added: 19/08/2011
6.7

Lorde

Solar Power

Third album of electronic pop from New Zealand-born Ella Yelich-O'Connor produced by Jack Antonoff

Added: 19/08/2021
6.7

David Lynch

The Big Dream

Second studio album by American filmmaker and musician, featuring eleven original blues songs and a Bob Dylan cover.

Added: 11/07/2013
6.7

Bright Eyes

The People's Key

Seventh studio album proper in his folk and country guise Bright Eyes for the prolific thirty year old Conor Oberst

Added: 01/02/2011
6.7

The Thermals

Desperate Ground

Album number six from the Portland, Oregon-based power punk trio

Added: 12/04/2013
6.7

The Pop Group

Citizen Zombie

First album of new material in 35 years from the Bristol post-punk pioneers, produced by Paul Epworth

Added: 21/02/2015
6.7

The Fall

New Facts Emerge

32nd studio album from Mark E Smith's legendary post-punk outfit

Added: 27/07/2017
6.7

SpaceGhostPurrp

Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of Spaceghostpurrp

Debut album of hip hop by this Floridean whose mixtapes have been lauded by none other than Odd Future

Added: 13/06/2012
6.7

Simian Mobile Disco

Unpatterns

Londoners James Ford and Jas Shaw release their third studio album proper of house, techno and nu disco

Added: 11/05/2012
6.7

Simian Mobile Disco

Whorl

Londoners James Ford and Jas Shaw release their fourth studio album of house, technno and nu-disco

Added: 04/09/2014
6.7

Shakira

She Wolf

More hot-blooded Latin pop from the huge-selling Colombian singer-songwriter

Added: 09/10/2009
6.7

Raekwon

Shaolin Vs. Wu Tang

Fifth album of Hip Hop released under Raekwon's name, though this project features most of the Wu Tang, but crucially not RZA

Added: 14/03/2011
6.7

Purity Ring

Another Eternity

Second LP from the Canadian synthpop duo comprising vocalist Megan James and producer Corin Roddick

Added: 24/02/2015
6.7

MellowHype

Blackenedwhite

Second album from the LA alternative hip hop duo, and part of the OFWGTA collective, gets a major-label release

Added: 12/07/2011
6.7

Loney, Dear

Hall Music

Third album of experimental melancholic pop from the Swede

Added: 11/10/2011
6.7

Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie

Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie

A new album co-written by the two Fleetwood Mac members also featuring Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on bass and drums

Added: 09/06/2017
6.7

Klaxons

Surfing the Void

Follow up to the Mercury Prize-winning debut album from the London indie rock quartet

Added: 09/08/2010
6.7

Jónsi

Shiver

Second solo album from the Sigur Rós frontman co-produced by A. G. Cook and recorded in Berlin, Helsinki, London and Reykjavik

Added: 01/10/2020
6.7

Doja Cat

Planet Her

Third full-length album from the Los Angeles rapper includes guest appearances from Ariana Grande, JID, SZA, The Weeknd, and Young Thug

Added: 24/06/2021
6.7

Body/Head

The Switch

Third full-length album of minimalist experimental rock from Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace

Added: 12/07/2018
6.7

Blood Red Shoes

Fire Like This

Second album of hard-riffing indie rock from Brighton guitar and drum duo Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter

Added: 25/02/2010
6.7

Young Knives

Ornaments From The Silver Arcade

Third album of indie rock from the Mercury Prize-nominated Leicestershire trio

Added: 01/04/2011
6.7

Wavves

Hideaway

Seventh studio album from the San Diego surf-rock four-piece led by Nathan Williams

Added: 16/07/2021
6.7

Wave Machines

Pollen

Second album from Liverpool alt.rock quartet produced by Lexxx

Added: 15/01/2013

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