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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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Peter Murphy

Ninth

Latest solo release from the former singer of 80s goth rock band Bauhaus

Added: 04/07/2011
6.0

Michael Jackson

Xscape

The King of Pop's second posthumous release is a collection of previously unreleased material brought up to date by producers including Timbaland

Added: 10/05/2014
6.0

Meek Mill

Dreams and Nightmares

Debut album of hip hop from Philidelphia rapper Meek Mill, featuring guest appearances from Nas, Rick Ross and John Legend.

Added: 31/10/2012
6.0

Lou Rhodes

One Good Thing

Third album of acoustic folk from the Manchester singer songwriter and former member of Lamb

Added: 16/03/2010
6.0

Hot Hot Heat

Hot Hot Heat

Fifth and final album of indie rock from 80s influenced Vancouver band

Added: 01/07/2016
6.0

Haunted Hearts

Initiation

Collaboration between husband and wife duo Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) and Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girls)

Added: 27/05/2014
6.0

Glasvegas

Euphoric Heartbreak

Second album from the Glaswegian wall-of-sound pop/rock band

Added: 25/03/2011
6.0

Duke Garwood

Dreamboatsafari

Third album of blues / folk from London-based singer-songwriter

Added: 18/01/2011
6.0

Babyshambles

Sequel To The Prequel

Pete Doherty's post-Libertines indie rock outfit, back in action after six years, with a 3rd album again produced by long-time collaborator Stephen Street

Added: 29/08/2013
6.0

Adult Jazz

Earrings Off!

A mini-album from the experimental Leeds fourpiece, following their 2014 debut Gist Is

Added: 19/05/2016
6.0

Aberfeldy

Somewhere To Jump From

Third album from Edinburgh indie pop band fronted by singer songwriter Riley Briggs

Added: 18/08/2010
6.0

Zomby

Nothing

The UK producer with his 3nd release, taking in bass, electronica, dubstep and other experimental soundscapes

Added: 12/12/2011
6.0

U2

Songs Of Innocence

Album number thirteen from the Dublin rock quartet launched free on iTunes with a physical release to follow

Added: 11/09/2014
6.0

Twin Shadow

Eclipse

Third album from the Dominican Republic-born, Brooklyn-based synth pop artist George Lewis Jr

Added: 16/03/2015
6.0

Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre

Folk, blues and country pop on the debut from the Canadian band led by singer-songwriter Taylor Kirk

Added: 20/09/2010
6.0

The Twilight Sad

No One Can Ever Know - The Remixes

Remix of the Scottish indie noise rock trio's third album includes Liars, Com Truise and Breton

Added: 23/11/2012
6.0

The Low Anthem

EYELAND

Fifth album from the indie folksters, recorded in an abandoned theatre in their home town of Providence and based on a short story by singer Ben Knox Miller

Added: 17/06/2016
6.0

The High Llamas

Here Come the Rattling Trees

Irish-born singer-songwriter Sean O'Hagan releases his 11th album as part of the London-based indie folk outfit, this time a soundtrack to a theatre production

Added: 22/01/2016
6.0

The Bird And The Bee

Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future

Second helping of psychedelic dance pop from LA duo Greg Kurstin and Inara George

Added: 30/01/2009
6.0

Rogue Wave

Nightingale Floors

Fifth album from Oakland, California indie rock five-piece led by Zach Schwartz

Added: 05/06/2013
6.0

R. Kelly

The Buffet

Thirteenth studio album from the R&B singer and producer with guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign and his daughter Ariirayé

Added: 15/12/2015
6.0

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz

Fifth studio album from the 22 year old, this time experimental psychedelic pop featuring collaborations with Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips. Released as a free stream on her own label.

Added: 03/09/2015
6.0

Laki Mera

Turn All Memory To White Noise

Third album of folk-tinged electronica from the Glasgow-based three-piece, their first without departed drummer Tim Harbinson.

Added: 18/07/2013
6.0

Klaxons

Love Frequency

Third album from the Mercury Prize-winning new rave indie rock trio which includes production duties from Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers and James Murphy

Added: 10/06/2014
6.0

Keel Her

Keel Her

Debut album of self-recorded lo-fi alt pop and post-punk from Brighton-based Rose Keeler-Schäffeler, comprising some of the hundreds of songs she has shared online since 2011

Added: 11/02/2014
6.0

Erik Hassle

Pieces

Second album of catchy electro-pop from the London-based Swedish singer-songwriter

Added: 22/02/2010
6.0

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros

Up From Below

Chilled out psychedelia and a 60s folk-revival spirit from the LA 10-piece formed by Alex Ebert of ImaRobot.

Added: 09/08/2009
6.0

Ed Sheeran

X

Second album of R&B / acoustic pop from the Halifax, West Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter with Pharrell Williams and Rick Rubin amongst the producers

Added: 22/06/2014
6.0

Diane Coffee

Everybody's a Good Dog

Second solo album from Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming

Added: 11/09/2015
6.0

Deap Lips

Deap Lips

Collaboration between Deap Vally and The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne & Steven Drozd

Added: 16/03/2020

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