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4 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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6.1

Fat White Family

Songs for Our Mothers

Second album of lo-fi rock from the South London band

Added: 21/01/2016
6.1

FaltyDL

In The Wild

New York producer Drew Lustman releases his 4th LP, with an accompanying video art project website

Added: 08/08/2014
6.1

Eugene McGuinness

The Invitation To The Voyage

Second album of retro indie pop from the London singer-songwriter who is also part of Miles Kane's band

Added: 03/08/2012
6.1

Eminem

Recovery

Album No.7, with a series of first-time hip hop collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, and Boi-1da

Added: 18/06/2010
6.1

DJ Khaled

Major Key

Ninth studio album from the Miami-based rapper, with several guest appearances throughout

Added: 05/08/2016
6.1

Darker My Love

Alive As You Are

Third album of indie psychedelic rock from Los Angeles five-piece

Added: 28/07/2010
6.1

CocoRosie

Grey Oceans

Pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop on the 4th album from "freak folk" sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady

Added: 29/04/2010
6.1

Cocknbullkid

Adulthood

Debut album of electro pop from London-born singer

Added: 20/05/2011
6.1

Camila Cabello

Romance

Second solo album from the Cuban-born pop singer and former Fifth Harmony member

Added: 07/12/2019
6.1

Calvin Harris

Funk Wav Bounces Vol.2

Sixth studio album from the Scottish EDM producer and DJ features guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa, Busta Rhymes, Justin Timberlake and more

Added: 05/08/2022
6.1

Britney Spears

Circus

Album number seven, and the follow up to the critically well received Blackout

Added: 28/11/2008
6.1

Black Grape

Pop Voodoo

Third album from the Manchester alternative dance band led by Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder produced by ex-Killing Joke bassist Martin Glover (Youth)

Added: 10/07/2017
6.1

Black Bananas

Rad Times Xpress IV

Lo-fi rock and roll and electro from Jennifer Herrema and her band, a new incarnation of what was once Royal Trux, and subsequently RTX

Added: 01/02/2012
6.1

Banks & Steelz

Anything But Words

Debut collaboration between Interpol's Paul Banks and and rapper RZA from Wu-Tang Clan

Added: 26/08/2016
6.1

Atari Teenage Riot

Is This Hyperreal?

Just the fourth studio album from Alec Empire's German digital hardcore band

Added: 20/06/2011
6.1

Asobi Seksu

Fluorescence

Fifth album of dream pop from the New York based indie shoegazers

Added: 09/02/2011
6.1

Alex Winston

King Con

Debut album from the Detroit-based indie pop singer-songwriter labelled as "America's Florence"

Added: 06/03/2012
6.1

Adam Green

Minor Love

Sixth helping of offbeat indie pop / rock from the New York singer-songwriter

Added: 11/01/2010
6.1

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Shake The Shudder

Seventh studio album from the New York dance-punk outfit mixed by dance producers like Joakim and Phil Moffa

Added: 20/05/2017
6.1

Wu-Tang Clan

A Better Tomorrow

Seventh album from the influential New York hip hop collective

Added: 29/11/2014
6.1

She & Him

Volume 3

More vintage-styled indie pop and indie folk from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, three years after Vol 2

Added: 07/05/2013
6.1

Kings Of Leon

Come Around Sundown

Fifth album from the big-selling Tennessee alt.rock quartet

Added: 04/10/2010
6.0

The Killers

Battle Born

Album number four from the platinum-selling Las Vegas rock quartet

Added: 14/09/2012
6.0

DJ Shadow

The Less You Know The Better

Fourth full album proper from Josh Davis, regarded as a pioneer in instrumental hip hop

Added: 23/09/2011
6.0

Blonde Redhead

Penny Sparkle

Eighth studio album from New York dream pop trio

Added: 13/09/2010
6.0

About Group

Start and Complete

The second album of improvisatonal electronic pop from the group led by Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor

Added: 07/04/2011
6.0

Tyler, The Creator

Cherry Bomb

Fourth self-produced album from LA hip hop rapper and Odd Future Tyler Okonma

Added: 16/04/2015
6.0

The Human League

Credo

Tenth album and first for nine years from the Sheffield synthpop trio

Added: 17/03/2011
6.0

The Beach Boys

That's Why God Made The Radio

The surviving members, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston, with a collection of new material to mark their 50th anniversary

Added: 02/06/2012
6.0

Matt & Kim

Sidewalks

Third album of dance and punk from the New York duo

Added: 03/11/2010

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