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8 June 2026

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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze

"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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6.6

Future Bible Heroes

Partygoing

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt reconvenes his indie pop side project alongside Christopher Ewen and singer Claudia Gonson

Added: 11/07/2013
6.6

Flyte

This Is Really Going To Hurt

Second album from the London indie-rock trio recorded in Los Angeles produced by Andro Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver) and Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen)

Added: 09/04/2021
6.6

Fifth Harmony

7/27

Second studio album from the X Factor USA 2012 winners, with guest appearances from Ty Dolla Sign, Fetty Wap, and Missy Elliott

Added: 02/06/2016
6.6

Eternal Tapestry

Wild Strawberries

A double album from the Portland psych-rockers, with track names taken from the flora surrounding their recording space

Added: 10/03/2015
6.6

DMA’s

For Now

Second album from the Sydney alt. rock trio

Added: 27/04/2018
6.6

Destruction Unit

Negative Feedback Resistor

Third album from the Arizona-based metal, punk, and space rock act fronted by Jay Reatard collaborator Ryan Roussreau

Added: 24/09/2015
6.6

Death From Above

Outrage! Is Now

Third album from the legendary Toronto dance punk duo reverting to their original name, minus the "1979" sufix

Added: 08/09/2017
6.6

Death And Vanilla

To Where the Wild Things Are

Third full-length release from the Swedish dream-pop trio

Added: 07/05/2015
6.6

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers

Imposter

Third collaboration between the Depeche Mode frontman and the English electronic duo

Added: 15/11/2021
6.6

Darkstar

Foam Island

Third album of electro-pop/dubstep from the London-based trio

Added: 28/09/2015
6.6

Dälek

Asphalt For Eden

Seventh album from the Newark, NJ alt hip hop trio

Added: 22/04/2016
6.6

Camila Cabello

Camila

Debut solo album from the Cuban-born pop singer and first release since leaving Fifth Harmony

Added: 14/01/2018
6.6

Brian Eno

Drums Between The Bells

Latest collection of soundscapes from the ambient composer, accompanied by spoken word passages from "contemporary thinker" Rick Holland

Added: 28/06/2011
6.6

Black Pus

All My Relations

Latest noise pop outing for Brian Chippendale, drummer with noise rock duo Lightning Bolt, and his first on Thrill Jockey

Added: 05/04/2013
6.6

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Panic Blooms

Sixth album from the Pittsburg experimental electronica group fronted by the vocalist known as Tobacco

Added: 03/05/2018
6.6

Bill Wells & Friends

Nursery Rhymes

Collaborative album of reworked nursery rhymes from the revered Scottish jazz musician, including appearances from Yo La Tengo, Isobel Campbell, Norman Blake and Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki

Added: 25/11/2015
6.6

Ben Kweller

Go Fly A Kite

Austin indie rocker Ben Kweller releases his first album since 2009 and his first on his own label, Noise Company

Added: 08/02/2012
6.6

Bear In Heaven

I Love You, It's Cool

Fourth album from the electronic indie rock outfit from Brooklyn

Added: 02/04/2012
6.6

Banks

III

Third album from Californian alt R&B artist Jillian Rose Banks working with producers BJ Burton, Hudson Mohawke, Kito and Francis and the Lights

Added: 10/07/2019
6.6

Aquilo

Silhouettes

Debut album from Tom Higham and Ben Fletcher, with producers including Sohn, Ólafur Arnalds, and Jonathan Green

Added: 02/02/2017
6.6

Andrew Weatherall

A Pox on the Pioneers

Dance rock and dub on the latest solo outing from the influential producer and DJ

Added: 09/10/2009
6.6

!!!

Strange Weather, Isn't It?

Fourth album from Sacratamento, California dance punk band sometimes referred to as Chk Chk Chk

Added: 16/08/2010
6.6

Ultimate Painting

Green Lanes

Second indie pop collaboration between James Hoare (Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (Mazes)

Added: 04/08/2015
6.6

Tricky

Adrian Thaws

The English trip hop mainstay's tenth LP features contributions from Nneka, Mykki Blanco, Oh Land, and Blue Daisy

Added: 07/09/2014
6.6

Tom Misch

Geography

Debut full-length release from the South London multi-instrumentalist features guest appearances from De La Soul, Loyle Carner, and GoldLink

Added: 09/04/2018
6.6

The Soft Pack

The Soft Pack

Debut album from the San Diego garage rock quartet originally called The Muslims

Added: 26/01/2010
6.6

The Orb

Cow/Chill Out, World!

Album number fourteen from the ambient house stalwarts Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann

Added: 14/10/2016
6.6

The Love Language

Ruby Red

Third release from the North Carolina lo-fi psych rock / power pop collective led by Stuart McLamb

Added: 24/07/2013
6.6

The Clientele

Minotaur

30 minute mini-album from London-based indie / folk and pop surrealists The Clientele.

Added: 12/09/2010
6.6

The Avett Brothers

The Carpenter

The North Carolina folk-rock quartet led by brothers Seth and Scott moving in a soft rock direction aided by producer Rick Rubin on their 7th album

Added: 12/09/2012

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"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

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The Coral388
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Broken Social SceneRemember The Humans
"You can hear them having fun, bouncing the ideas off one another" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar). "Celebrates the joy and spirit of a bunch of old friends simply jamming together" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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