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  1. 8.5

    Patty Griffin

    American Kid

    7th album from the country / folk singer-songwriter, following her Grammy-winning gospel LP and singing with partner Robert Plant's Band of Joy

    Added: 02/06/2013

     
  2. 8.5

    Future Of The Left

    How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident

    Andy Falkous's Cardiff band train their sights on another range of contemporary targets in their fourth blast of acerbic hardcore alt.rock

    Added: 21/10/2013

     
  3. 8.5

    Bon Iver

    22, A Million

    Third album from the American indie/folk band fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon

    Added: 28/09/2016

     
  4. 8.5

    Waxahatchee

    Tigers Blood

    Sixth full-length release from the New York City-via-Alabama indie singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield produced by Brad Cook and featuring MJ Lenderman on guitar

    Added: 20/03/2024

     
  5. 8.5

    Nova Twins

    Supernova

    Second album from the London rock duo Amy Love and Georgia South produced by Jim Abbiss

    Added: 17/06/2022

     
  6. 8.5

    Little Simz

    Grey Area

    Third album of soulful hip-hop from London-rapper Simbiatu Ajikawo

    Added: 27/02/2019

     
  7. 8.5

    Janelle Monáe

    The ArchAndroid

    Debut album of pop / soul / R&B / futuristic funk from the Kansas singer-songwriter

    Added: 08/06/2010

     
  8. 8.5

    The Smile

    Wall Of Eyes

    Second collaboration between Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner recorded in Oxford and in Abbey Road Studios with the producer Sam Petts-Davies

    Added: 22/01/2024

     
  9. 8.5

    Run The Jewels

    Run The Jewels 3

    Third studio album from the two hip hop heavyweights Killer Mike and El-P featuring guest appearances from Danny Brown, Joi Gilliam, Trina and Kamasi Washington

    Added: 03/01/2017

     
  10. 8.5

    Noname

    Room 25

    Debut self-released full-length album from the LA-Based, Chicago-born rapper / poet Fatimah Warner

    Added: 19/09/2018

     
  11. 8.5

    Fiona Apple

    The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

    Fourth studio album of baroque pop from the New York-born Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter

    Added: 15/06/2012

     
  12. 8.5

    Father John Misty

    I Love You, Honeybear

    Second studio album under this moniker from the Baltimore-born singer-songwriter, guitarist and former Fleet Foxes drummer J.Tillman

    Added: 05/02/2015

     
  13. 8.5

    boygenius

    The Record

    Debut full-length album of indie folk / rock from Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus

    Added: 29/03/2023

     
  14. 8.5

    Tom Waits

    Bad As Me

    The 17th album from the gravel-voiced singer-songwriter turns up the urgency

    Added: 19/10/2011

     
  15. 8.5

    Taylor Swift

    Folklore

    Surprise release of the eighth album from the pop artist produced by longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff and The National's Aaron Dessner

    Added: 24/07/2020

     
  16. 8.5

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

    Wild God

    Eighteenth studio album and first in five years from the alternative rock band self-produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

    Added: 26/08/2024

     
  17. 8.5

    Joanna Newsom

    Have One On Me

    Third album of new folk - and a triple at that - from the harp-playing Californian bard

    Added: 22/02/2010

     
  18. 8.5

    FKA Twigs

    Lp1

    Debut album of trip hop / alternative R&B from the London-based singer and dancer Tahliah Barnett

    Added: 04/08/2014

     
  19. 8.5

    Turnstile

    Glow On

    Third full-length album from the Baltimore hardcore band was produced by Mike Elizondo

    Added: 26/08/2021

     
  20. 8.5

    Julia Holter

    Have You In My Wilderness

    Fourth album from the Californian singer-songwriter and experimental sound artist

    Added: 21/09/2015

     
  21. 8.5

    Young Fathers

    Heavy Heavy

    Fourth full-length album and first in five years from the Edinburgh-based Mercury Prize-winning trio

    Added: 01/02/2023

     
  22. 8.5

    Rosalía

    Motomami

    Third album of experimental, flamenco-flavoured pop from the Catalonia-born Rosalia Vila Tobella

    Added: 18/03/2022

     
  23. 8.5

    Michael Kiwanuka

    Kiwanuka

    Third album of modern soul from the London-based singer-songwriter produced by Danger Mouse and Inflo

    Added: 24/10/2019

     
  24. 8.5

    Lana Del Rey

    Norman Fucking Rockwell

    Album number six from the pop singer-songwriter produced by Jack Antonoff (Lorde, St. Vincent, Taylor Swift)

    Added: 30/08/2019

     
  25. 8.5

    Japanese Breakfast

    Jubilee

    Third solo album of lo-fi pop from Philadelphia musician Michelle Zauner who is a member of Little Big League

    Added: 03/06/2021

     
  26. 8.5

    Idles

    Joy as an Act of Resistance

    Second album of indie post-punk from the Bristol quintet

    Added: 27/08/2018

     
  27. 8.5

    Gillian Welch

    The Harrow & The Harvest

    Fifth album and first for eight years from the Bluegrass singer-songwriter and her partner Dave Rawlings

    Added: 24/06/2011

     
  28. 8.5

    Bill Ryder-Jones

    Iechyd Da

    Fifth solo studio album by Merseyside indie singer-songwriter recorded and self-produced in his studio

    Added: 10/01/2024

     
  29. 8.5

    Tame Impala

    Lonerism

    Self-produced follow-up to the highly-rated debut Innerspeaker from the Australian psych-rock band

    Added: 02/10/2012

     
  30. 8.5

    Sons of Kemet

    Black To The Future

    Fourth album from the London-based jazz group led by Shabaka Hutchings

    Added: 12/05/2021

     

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