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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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6.6

John Harle & Marc Almond

The Tyburn Tree - Dark London

Collaboration between the composer, conductor and producer Harle and the former Soft Cell singer Almond that looks at the dark underbelly of historic London

Added: 21/02/2014
6.6

Jeffrey Lewis

A Turn In The Dream Songs

Latest album from this New York singer-songwriter and comic book artist

Added: 09/10/2011
6.6

Harper Simon

Division Street

The son of Paul Simon with a second album of melodic indie rock

Added: 27/03/2013
6.6

Guided By Voices

English Little League

20th album from Robert Pollard's alternative rock outfit from Dayton, Ohio

Added: 01/05/2013
6.6

Gregg Allman

Low Country Blues

Solo album from the Nashville rock and blues musician and founding member of The Allman Brothers

Added: 06/02/2011
6.6

Giant Giant Sand

Tucson: A Country Rock Opera

Latest from the alt country veterans led by Howe Gelb is a self-proclaimed country rock opera

Added: 14/06/2012
6.6

Ed Harcourt

Back Into The Woods

The London chamber pop singer-songwriter with his 7th studio album, recorded in 6 hours in Abbey Road studio

Added: 26/02/2013
6.6

Chromeo

Head Over Heels

Album number five from David Macklovitch (Dave 1) and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg), the Montreal-based electro-funk duo

Added: 18/06/2018
6.6

Chris Cohen

As If Apart

Second album of psychedelic indie from the LA singer-songwriter

Added: 06/05/2016
6.6

Cheap Trick

In Another World

Twentieth full-length studio album from the rock band was produced by Julian Raymond (Glen Canpbell, Hank Williams Jr, The Suicide Machines)

Added: 09/04/2021
6.6

Broken Records

Until The Earth Begins To Part

Scottish seven-piece alt.folk-rock act with their debut album

Added: 11/06/2009
6.6

Bonny Doon

Longwave

Second album from the Detroit-based indie rock quartet

Added: 28/03/2018
6.6

Bloc Party

Four

After focusing on side projects the London indie rock quartet return with their fourth album

Added: 14/08/2012
6.6

Bleachers

Bleachers

Fourth album from producer Jack Antonoff's New York-based indie pop project featuring guest appearances from Lana Del Rey, Aaron Dessner, Kevin Abstract and Florence Welch

Added: 08/03/2024
6.6

Aurora

All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

Debut album from Norwegian teenager Aurora Aksnes, who covered Oasis' Half The World Away for 2015's John Lewis Christmas ad

Added: 11/03/2016
6.6

Wiley

100% Publishing

Seventh album of grime rap from the incredibly prolific Londoner, who has another album on the way this year

Added: 16/06/2011
6.6

Wild Nothing

Empty Estate

Seven-track EP release from Virginia's Jack Tatum, this time blending psychedelic synthpop and indie rock

Added: 16/05/2013
6.6

The Raveonettes

In And Out Of Control

Danish duo with their fourth album of garage rock, post-punk and harmonies

Added: 06/10/2009
6.6

The Boxer Rebellion

The Cold Still

Third album form the London alternative rockers

Added: 04/02/2011
6.6

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down

Know Better Learn Faster

Second indie pop / anti-folk collaboration between US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down

Added: 08/01/2010
6.6

Social Distortion

Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes

Seventh studio album from the Californian punk rock veterans

Added: 18/01/2011
6.6

Seams

Quarters

First full-length release from Berlin-based British producer Jamie Welch, dealing in electronica and understated dance

Added: 24/09/2013
6.6

Savages & Bo Ningen

Words To The Blind

Recording of a 37-minute, Dada-inspired concert consisting of one song played simultaneously by the UK post punk band and the London-based Japanese psych rockers

Added: 20/11/2014
6.6

Sally Shapiro

Somewhere Else

The Swedish singer and her writer/producer partner Johan Agebjörn with a 3rd album of synthpop and indie pop

Added: 26/02/2013
6.6

Robert Pollard

Blazing Gentlemen

Solo album number twenty, and second of 2013, from the hyper-productive singer-songwriter and frontman of the reformed Guided By Voices

Added: 06/12/2013
6.6

Psychedelic Horseshit

Laced

Second album of lo-fi noise pop from the Ohio trio who christened their music shitgaze

Added: 12/05/2011
6.6

Patten

Estoile Naiant

Second album and first on Warp from the publicity shy London-based experimental electronic musician

Added: 26/02/2014
6.6

Panda Bear

Buoys

Sixth solo album from Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox co-produced and co-mixed with Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Born Ruffians, Grizzly Bear)

Added: 06/02/2019
6.6

of Montreal

White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood

Album number fifteen from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock group finds Kevin Barnes working mostly alone

Added: 09/03/2018
6.6

Mi Ami

Steal Your Face

Second album from the San Francisco trio led by singer and guitarist Daniel Martin-McCormick who combine afro, dub, noise rock and post-punk

Added: 15/04/2010

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