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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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7.7

Sharon Van Etten

We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Sixth album from the Brooklyn-based indie folk singer-songwriter produced by Daniel Knowles

Added: 06/05/2022
7.7

Shamir

Heterosexuality

Eighth album from the Las Vegas-born, Philadelphia-based electronic pop singer-songwriter

Added: 11/02/2022
7.7

Sarah Blasko

Depth of Field

Sixth studio album from the Australian singer-songwriter, written and recorded during a residency at Campbelltown Arts Centre in Sydney

Added: 22/02/2018
7.7

Roky Erickson With Okkervil River

True Love Cast Out All Evil

First album of new songs for 14 years from the rehabilitated former 13th Floor Elevators member

Added: 21/04/2010
7.7

Pokey LaFarge

In The Blossom Of Their Shade

Latest album from the Illinois-born folk/roots singer-songwriter and actor

Added: 16/10/2021
7.7

Pet Shop Boys

Electric

Album number twelve from the veteran synth pop pioneers Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant and first on their own label

Added: 05/07/2013
7.7

Pauline Anna Strom

Angel Tears In Sunlight

First release in thirty three years from the San Francisco-based electronic composer who died in December 2020

Added: 23/02/2021
7.7

Paul Weller

A Kind Revolution

Album number thirteen from the former Jam and Style Council front man includes guest appearances from PP Arnold, Madeleine Bell, Boy George and Robert Wyatt

Added: 10/05/2017
7.7

Parcels

Day/Night

Second album from the Australian electropop five-piece now based in Berlin

Added: 06/11/2021
7.7

Oneohtrix Point Never

R Plus Seven

More experimental electronica from producer and synth maestro Daniel Lopatin, his debut long-player release on Warp

Added: 24/09/2013
7.7

Nilüfer Yanya

Painless

Third album of indie pop from the 23-year old British-Turkish singer-songwriter

Added: 02/03/2022
7.7

Meshuggah

Koloss

Titans of Swedish extreme metal, this experimental quintet return with their seventh album

Added: 27/03/2012
7.7

Melt Yourself Down

100% YES

Third studio album from the London-based jazz, funk, Afrobeat, world music and tribal pop collective led by former Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham

Added: 03/04/2020
7.7

Megafaun

Megafaun

Fourth album of folk-rock from North Carolina's trio.

Added: 19/09/2011
7.7

Margo Price

Strays

Fourth studio album from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter produced by Jonathan Wilson (Dawes, Angel Olsen, Father John Misty)

Added: 12/01/2023
7.7

Leyla McCalla

Breaking The Thermometer

Latest album from New Orleans-based singer-songwriter inspired in part by the history of Radio Haiti

Added: 11/05/2022
7.7

Laurel Halo

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Mini-album of six instrumental pieces from the Berlin-based electronic ambient pop artist

Added: 17/07/2018
7.7

Lankum

Between The Earth And Sky

Second album from the Irish folk quartet and first for Rough Trade

Added: 30/10/2017
7.7

Kurt Vile

b'lieve i'm goin down

Sixth studio release from the Philadelphia lo-fi indie rocker, follow up to 2013's It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)

Added: 18/09/2015
7.7

Konono No 1

Assume Crash Position

Second album from Congolese band whose signature sound comes from massed amplified likembes (thumb pianos)

Added: 17/05/2010
7.7

Kiasmos

Kiasmos

Debut LP from the techno collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup's Janus Rasmussen

Added: 30/10/2014
7.7

K'naan

Troubadour

Second album from Somalian-born, Toronto-based rapper who's 'Waving Flag' is the official World Cup anthem

Added: 26/06/2010
7.7

Jupiter & Okwess

Kin Sonic

Second internationally released album from Congolese artist Jupiter Bokondji

Added: 07/07/2017
7.7

Jolie Holland

Wine Dark Sea

Fifth studio album of traditional Americana from one of The Be Good Tanyas founding members

Added: 21/05/2014
7.7

Johnny Marr

Fever Dreams Pts 1- 4

Fourth solo album from the former Smiths guitarist

Added: 24/02/2022
7.7

Inter Arma

Sulphur English

Fourth album from the Richmond, Virginia metal band

Added: 15/04/2019
7.7

Hovvdy

Hovvdy

Fifth album from the Austin, Texas indie-pop duo Charlie Martin and Will Taylor

Added: 29/04/2024
7.7

Horsegirl

Versions of Modern Performance

Debut album from the Chicago rock trio

Added: 01/06/2022
7.7

Haiku Salut

The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

Fifth album from the Derbyshire electronica instrumental trio Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood and Louise Croft

Added: 14/09/2021
7.7

Haiku Salut

There Is No Elsewhere

Third album from the Derbyshire instrumental trio Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood and Louise Croft

Added: 14/09/2018

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