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6 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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6.3

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Getaway

Eleventh studio album from the veteran Californian funk rockers and second to feature new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, produced by Danger Mouse

Added: 16/06/2016
6.3

Quasi

American Gong

Latest release of alt.rock adventures from the oft-changing outfit formed from members of Heatmiser and Sleater-Kinney

Added: 19/02/2010
6.3

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir

These Systems Are Failing

Album number thirteen from the NY electronic musician and first under this moniker

Added: 18/10/2016
6.3

Miike Snow

iii

Third album from the Stockholm indie pop/house act, with a guest appearance from Charli XCX

Added: 04/03/2016
6.3

Merle Haggard

Working in Tennessee

The latest album from the 74 year old country music veteran

Added: 06/10/2011
6.3

Mac DeMarco

Here Comes The Cowboy

The fourth full-length release for the Los Angeles-based Canadian multi-instrumentalist and multi-media artist

Added: 07/05/2019
6.3

Lauren Pritchard

Wasted in Jackson

Debut album from London-based soul singer born in Jackson, Tennessee

Added: 25/10/2010
6.3

Kesha

. [Period]

Sixth album from the Nashville, Tennessee pop singer working with producers Nova Wav, Jonathan Wilson, Morten Ristorp, Pink Slip and Rick Rubin

Added: 04/07/2025
6.3

Johnny Cash

Out Among the Stars

Recordings from 1980s sessions with Billy Sherrill, shelved at the time by Columbia and recently discovered by the country legend's son

Added: 27/03/2014
6.3

Joe Goddard

Harvest Festival

First solo album from Hot Chip member with elements of house, garage and dubstep all evident

Added: 26/11/2009
6.3

Goldfrapp

Head First

The electro-pop pioneer back with a fifth album of 80s-inspired songs in tandem with musical partner Will Gregory

Added: 12/03/2010
6.3

Friendly Fires

Inflorescent

Third album and first in eight years from the dance rock trio from the St Albans

Added: 16/08/2019
6.3

Daniel Martin Moore

In The Cool Of The Day

Second solo album of folk from the singer songwriter

Added: 20/01/2011
6.3

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Stage Whisper

The actress and singer's third album of psych pop and offbeat electro pop is a combination of live performances and new studio recordings with collaborator Beck

Added: 08/12/2011
6.3

Blockhead

The Music Scene

New York hip hop producer Tony Simon with a third installment of downbeat beats and instrumental samples

Added: 18/01/2010
6.3

Ben Kweller

Changing Horses

Acoustic blues, country tunes and pedal steel guitar on the young Texan's fourth solo outing.

Added: 01/02/2009
6.3

Bell X1

Bloodless Coup

Fifth album from the Irish indie rock trio

Added: 08/04/2011
6.3

A Perfect Circle

Eat The Elephant

Fourth studio album from the Los Angeles alternative metal outfit, led by Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan, and first in 14 years

Added: 20/04/2018
6.3

Twin Atlantic

Great Divide

Third album from the Glaswegian alt.rock quartet produced by Jacknife Lee (Snow Patrol, One Direction) and Gil Norton (Pixies, Maximo Park)

Added: 14/08/2014
6.3

The Naked and Famous

In Rolling Waves

Second album of electropop and shoegaze from the New Zealand five-piece recorded in LA

Added: 17/09/2013
6.3

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

You Break Our Hearts, We’ll Tear Yours Out

Debut album of Gothic Americana from the Manchester trio

Added: 13/01/2010
6.3

The Chemical Brothers

Hanna

First soundtrack album from electronic duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons

Added: 06/05/2011
6.3

Seasick Steve

Man from Another Time

Latest batch of acoustic songs from gnarled US bluesman Steve Wold

Added: 18/10/2009
6.3

Scanners

Submarine

Second album of indie and post-punk from the London quartet

Added: 21/03/2011
6.3

Santana

Santana IV

The legendary latin/blues guitarist reunites with his original bandmates to release their fourth record together, spiritual successor to 1971's III

Added: 18/04/2016
6.3

Robert Pollard

Space City Kicks

Former Guided By Voices front man with his latest solo album of indie rock

Added: 21/01/2011
6.3

Psychic Ills

One Track Mind

Album No.4 from the NY psychedelic rock band, with Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux) producing

Added: 19/02/2013
6.3

Porches

Ricky Music

Fourth album from the New York-based synth-pop singer-songwriter Aaron Maine

Added: 13/03/2020
6.3

Pink

Hurts 2B Human

Eighth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore

Added: 26/04/2019
6.3

Pink

Trustfall

Ninth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore featuring guest appearances from First Aid Kit, Chris Stapleton and The Lumineers

Added: 17/02/2023

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