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29 July 2025

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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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Folk Bitch TrioNow Would Be A Good Time

"Breathtaking vocal harmonies, razor-sharp lyrical edge and delicate darkness set this Melbourne band apart" (10/10 - NME). "In short, it’s gorgeous. All ten tracks. Gorgeous" (9/10 - Far Out)

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Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse BandNew Threats From the Soul

"Jam-packed with arresting turns of phrase, collapsing structures, and revelatory and bizarre unions of form" (9.7/10 - Paste). "An essential new voice in American indie rock" (8.7/10 - Pitchfork)

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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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7.6

Throwing Muses

Sun Racket

Album number ten and first in seven years from the Newport, Rhode Island alt.rock trio

Added: 03/09/2020
7.6

The Rolling Stones

Blue & Lonesome

The latest release from the rock veterans is an album of blues covers played live including a guest appearance from Eric Clapton

Added: 01/12/2016
7.6

The Radio Dept.

Running Out Of Love

Fourth album from the Swedish dream pop band delayed by a legal battle with their record label

Added: 18/10/2016
7.6

The Body

I've Seen All I Need To See

Album number eight from the Rhode Island-based sludge metal duo Chip King and Lee Buford

Added: 01/02/2021
7.6

SPELLLING

Mazy Fly

Second full-length album of experimental art-pop from the Bay Area artist Chrystia Cabral

Added: 22/02/2019
7.6

Soulsavers

Broken

Dark, downbeat electronica and rock from the British production and remix maestros on their second album, with Mark Lanegan in attendance

Added: 16/08/2009
7.6

Songhoy Blues

Music in Exile

Debut from the Northern Mali band produced by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Added: 28/02/2015
7.6

Soap & Skin

Narrow

Second album from hotly-tipped Austrian 18-year-old Anja Plaschg: piano, violin, electronics and confessional lyrics

Added: 20/03/2012
7.6

SOAK

If I Never Know You Like This Again

Third album from Derry singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson working with collaborator Tommy McLaughlin

Added: 20/05/2022
7.6

Sauna Youth

Distractions

Second LP from the English art punk band, their first recorded in a studio

Added: 09/06/2015
7.6

Roly Porter

Third Law

Third studio album of electronic music from the Bristol-based producer, once one half of dubstep duo Vex'd

Added: 25/01/2016
7.6

Raye

My 21st Century Blues

Debut full-length album from the London singer-songwriter Rachel Agatha Keen

Added: 03/02/2023
7.6

Pedro The Lion

Phoenix

Fifth album and first under the Pedro the Lion moniker since 2004 from creator David Bazan

Added: 18/01/2019
7.6

Pearl Charles

Magic Mirror

Third full-length album from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter produced by Lewis Pesacov (Best Coast, FIDLAR, Local Natives)

Added: 15/01/2021
7.6

Pale Waves

Smitten

Fourth album from the Manchester indie pop four-piece co-produced by Simon Oscroft

Added: 26/09/2024
7.6

Olivia Rodrigo

Sour

Debut album from the American singer and actress produced by Dan Nigro (Carly Rae Jepsen, Sky Ferreira, Empress Of, Lewis Capaldi)

Added: 21/05/2021
7.6

O.

Weirdos

Debut full-length release from the London duo saxophonist Joe Henwood and drummer Tash Keary was recorded live to tape and produced by Dan Carey

Added: 21/06/2024
7.6

Nubya Garcia

Source

Debut full-length album from the London-based jazz musician was produced by Kwes (Loyle Carner, Kelela, DELS)

Added: 21/08/2020
7.6

Nao

And Then Life Was Beautiful

Third studio album from the British R&B artist Neo Joshua

Added: 24/09/2021
7.6

MUNA

Saves The World

Second album from the Los Angeles-based electronic pop trio

Added: 07/09/2019
7.6

Letlive.

The Blackest Beautiful

Third album from the LA-based post-hardcore / alt.rock four-piece

Added: 08/07/2013
7.6

King

We Are King

Debut album from LA soul trio consisting of producer Paris Strother her sister Amber and Anita Bias

Added: 10/02/2016
7.6

Kate NV

WOW

Fifth full-length solo release from the Moscow-based avant-pop artist

Added: 02/03/2023
7.6

Jlin

Akoma

Fourth album and first in seven years from the Indiana-based electronic musician Jerrilynn Patton featuring collaborations with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet

Added: 22/03/2024
7.6

Helado Negro

This Is How You Smile

Sixth full-length album from the Brooklyn-based psych folk and experimental electronica artist Roberto Carlos Lange

Added: 08/03/2019
7.6

Haley Heynderickx

I Need to Start a Garden

Debut record from the Portland, OR singer-singwriter

Added: 26/03/2018
7.6

Gregory Porter

Take Me To The Alley

Fourth studio album of soulful jazz, followup to 2014's Grammy winning Liquid Spirit

Added: 09/05/2016
7.6

Greentea Peng

Man Made

Debut full-length album from the South London neo-soul artist Aria Wells

Added: 04/06/2021
7.6

Go-Kart Mozart

On The Hot Dog Streets

Third album of indie pop from the eccentric former Felt and Denim frontman Lawrence

Added: 02/07/2012
7.6

Ghost

Meliora

The title of the Swedish doom/heavy metal act's third album means 'the pursuit of the better' in Latin

Added: 21/08/2015

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