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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

The Wave Pictures

City Forgiveness

The English alt rockers give us their 8th label-backed release, no 13 if you include the ones released under their own steam

Added: 21/10/2013
6.7

The Tallest Man On Earth

I Love You. It's A Fever Dream.

Fifth album from the Swedish singer-wongwriter Kristian Matsson

Added: 26/04/2019
6.7

The Rosebuds

Sand + Silence

Indie rock duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp release their fifth album, with guests including Justin Vernon on synth and guitar

Added: 08/08/2014
6.7

The Lumineers

The Lumineers

Debut album from the Denver, Colorado folk rock trio

Added: 04/11/2012
6.7

The Get Up Kids

Problems

Sixth studio album of indie rock from the Kansas City five-piece produced by Peter Katis (The National, Kurt Vile, Augustines)

Added: 14/05/2019
6.7

The Flaming Lips

Oczy Mlody

Fifteenth studio album from Wayne Coyne's Grammy-winning psych rockers, recorded with Dave Fridmann (Weezer, Sparklehorse, Mogwai)

Added: 04/01/2017
6.7

The Bird And The Bee

Recreational Love

Fourth album from the LA indie pop duo made up of Inara George and Greg Kurstin

Added: 20/08/2015
6.7

Teleman

Breakfast

Debut album from the London indie pop quartet which includes former members of Pete & The Pirates and is produced by Bernard Butler

Added: 30/05/2014
6.7

Telekinesis

12 Desperate Straight Lines

Second album of hook-laden indie pop from Seattle singer-songwriter Michael Lerner

Added: 10/02/2011
6.7

Tate McRae

So Close To What

Third album from the Canadian pop singer featuring guest appearances from Flo Milli and The Kid LAROI

Added: 24/02/2025
6.7

Sparrow and the Workshop

Murderopolis

Third album of alt.folk, Americana and post-rock from the Glasgow-based Scottish/Welsh/American trio

Added: 28/05/2013
6.7

Sleaford Mods

Divide And Exit

Album number seven from the Nottingham electro-punk duo

Added: 16/05/2014
6.7

Six Organs of Admittance

Hexadic II

Latest release from the Comets of Fire guitarist Ben Chasny based on his own 'Hexadic system' of mirrored ascending and descending scales

Added: 04/12/2015
6.7

Saint Saviour

Union

Alternative pop on the debut album from the singer-songwriter who was previously with Groove Armada

Added: 25/07/2012
6.7

S. Carey

Hundred Acres

Third solo album from the Wisconsin-based Bon Iver member

Added: 23/02/2018
6.7

Royal Thunder

CVI

Stoner metal with a bluesy and psychedelic edge on the debut album from the Atlanta quartet

Added: 18/06/2012
6.7

Ron Sexsmith

Carousel One

Fourteenth studio album of melancholic pop / folk from Canadian singer-sonwriter

Added: 01/04/2015
6.7

Robert Hood

Paradygm Shift

Latest full-length release from the minimal techno producer Detroit-born, Alabama-based artist

Added: 01/07/2017
6.7

Rex Orange County

Who Cares?

Fourth album from the 21-year-old English indie pop artist Alex O’Connor

Added: 11/03/2022
6.7

Red Velvet

Queendom

Latest release from the South Korean electropop group is a mini-album

Added: 26/08/2021
6.7

Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program

Stargate Music

Eleventh album on Leaving Records from LA hip hop producer Gregory Shorter, Jr.

Added: 01/05/2018
6.7

Race Horses

Furniture

Piano-led 80s New Romantic-influenced pop from the Welsh five-piece on their 2nd album

Added: 11/09/2012
6.7

R. Kelly

Write Me Back

70s soul provides the inspiration for the 11th album from the R&B singer and producer

Added: 26/06/2012
6.7

Quasimoto

Yessir Whatever

Third album of alternative hip hop from Madlib's squeaky-voiced animated alter ego

Added: 29/07/2013
6.7

Pure X

Angel

Austin outfit's third album of lo-fi indie rock, recorded over five days in a 100 year old Texan dance hall

Added: 15/04/2014
6.7

Pop. 1280

Paradise

Third album from the Brooklyn cyberpunk quartet named after Jim Thompson's 1964 novel

Added: 08/02/2016
6.7

Plaid

The Digging Remedy

Ninth full-length studio album from the London-based electronic techno duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley

Added: 14/06/2016
6.7

Picastro

You

Fifth full-length release from the Toronto trio specialising in experimental indie rock and avant folk

Added: 14/02/2014
6.7

Phantogram

Three

Third album from Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, the New York-based dream pop duo

Added: 30/09/2016
6.7

Peggy Sue

Vices

Fourth album from Brighton-based alt.folk trio led by Rosa Slade and Katy Young

Added: 27/02/2020

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