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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

Open Mike Eagle

Dark Comedy

Fourth album from the Chicago born rapper, now based in LA and member of the hip hop collective Project Blowed

Added: 20/06/2014
6.7

of Montreal

Lousy with Sylvianbriar

More quirky indie pop and offbeat funk-laced rock from the long-standing Georgia band led by Kevin Barnes

Added: 08/10/2013
6.7

Noisettes

Contact

Third album from the British duo, with retro R&B and jazz-tinged pop soul

Added: 26/08/2012
6.7

Nina Nesbitt

The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change

Second album from the Swedish-Scottish pop star produced by Lostboy, Jordan Riley and Fraser T. Smith

Added: 05/02/2019
6.7

Nathaniel Rateliff

And It's Still Alright

First solo release in six years from the St. Louis, Missouri singer-songwriter co-produced with James Barone and Patrick Meese

Added: 14/02/2020
6.7

Nat Baldwin

In The Hollows

Dirty Projectors bassist releases his follow up to 2011's People Changes, with songs built on the double bass

Added: 08/05/2014
6.7

Nap Eyes

Thought Rock Fish Scale

Second album from the Nova Scotia band fronted by singer-songwriter Nigel Chapman

Added: 05/02/2016
6.7

Nails

Abandon All Life

Second outing from the California extreme punk / death metal / grindcore quartet, recorded at Godcity with Kurt Ballou

Added: 17/04/2013
6.7

Moby

Reprise

Nineteenth album from the New York electronic musician features orchestral and acoustic arrangements of songs from his career

Added: 30/05/2021
6.7

Milosh

Jet Lag

Downtempo electronic soul on the latest solo release from Rhye singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Milosh, co-produced with his new wife, the actress Alexa Nikolas

Added: 13/12/2013
6.7

Max Jury

Max Jury

Debut album from the Des Moines, Iowa piano playing singer-songwriter

Added: 07/06/2016
6.7

Mary J Blige

Strength Of A Woman

Album number fourteen from the New York City R&B singer includes contributions from Kanye West, Quavo, DJ Khaled and Missy Elliott

Added: 28/04/2017
6.7

Madeline Kenney

Night Night at the First Landing

Debut full-length album from the West Coast singer-writer produced by Toro y Moi's Chaz Bear

Added: 01/09/2017
6.7

Mac Miller

Go:od Am

Third studio LP from the Pittsburgh rapper features guest appearances by Ab-Soul, Lil B and Little Dragon

Added: 21/09/2015
6.7

Luke Haines

Smash the System

Latest album from the alt-rock singer-songwriter and his first non-concept album since 2009’s 21st Century Man

Added: 07/10/2016
6.7

Lala Lala

I Want The Door To Open

Third full-length album from the Chicago-based singer-songwriter

Added: 14/10/2021
6.7

Kylesa

From the Vaults Vol.1

Reworkings of unreleased material plus cover versions from the Georgia psychedelic sludge merchants

Added: 11/12/2012
6.7

Kelly Clarkson

Meaning Of Life

Eighth studio album from the pop/rock singer and American Idol winner

Added: 27/10/2017
6.7

Juliana Hatfield

Weird

Seventeenth studio album by American alt-rock singer-songwriter. Hatfield is joined on this self-produced album by Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Sunshine Boys) and Todd Philips (Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three)

Added: 29/01/2019
6.7

John Paul White

Beulah

Second solo album from the former member of The Civil Wars and first since their acrimonious split

Added: 19/08/2016
6.7

John Fogerty

Wrote A Song For Everyone

The latest solo album from the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman sees him revisit some classic recordings as well as two new songs

Added: 28/05/2013
6.7

Indians

Somewhere Else

Synth-heavy indie pop on the debut from Copenhagen-based Søren Løkke Juul

Added: 23/01/2013
6.7

Hooray For Earth

Racy

Second album of indie synth pop from this NYC group fronted by multi-instrumentalist Noel Heroux

Added: 31/07/2014
6.7

Gold-Bears

Dalliance

Second full-length of indie punk from the Atlanta based noise-pop outfit led by Jeremy Underwood

Added: 04/06/2014
6.7

Gem Club

In Roses

Second collection of chamber pop compositions from the Boston trio

Added: 29/01/2014
6.7

Fraser A. Gorman

Slow Gun

Debut album of Americana from the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter

Added: 30/06/2015
6.7

Filthy Friends

Invitation

Debut album from the alt.rock supergroup including REM's Peter Buck and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney

Added: 26/08/2017
6.7

Ethan Johns

The Reckoning

Second album from English producer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams who returns the compliment here

Added: 29/06/2014
6.7

Eternal Summers

Correct Behavior

Dream pop and post-punk on the second album from the Virginia band, now a trio having added a bassist

Added: 27/07/2012
6.7

Emika

Dva

Follow-up to her self-titled 2011 debut from the Bristol-born, Berlin-based electronic composer and singer, informed by dubstep, bass, synthpop and electronica

Added: 12/06/2013

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