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27 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

Anna B Savage

You And I Are Earth

Third full-length album from the Dublin-based, London-born singer-songwriter

Added: 24/01/2025
7.6

American Football

American Football (LP3)

Third eponymous studio album from the Illinois-based indie quartet

Added: 19/03/2019
7.6

Amber Mark

Three Dimensions Deep

Debut full-length album from the Tennessee-born R&B singer and producer

Added: 28/01/2022
7.6

Ada Lea

What We Say In Private

The debut full-length release from the Montreal singer-songwriter Alexandra Levy

Added: 16/07/2019
7.6

Youth Lagoon

The Year of Hibernation

Fuzzy lo-fi indie rock and dream pop on the debut release from Idaho-based bedroom artist Trevor Powers

Added: 26/09/2011
7.6

White Lung

Deep Fantasy

Third LP from the Vancouver punk group fronted by Mish Way

Added: 13/06/2014
7.6

Underworld

Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

Ninth album and first in six years from techno / electronic duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith

Added: 15/03/2016
7.6

Ty Segall

First Taste

Album number twelve from the Laguna Beach, California multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter

Added: 31/07/2019
7.6

Tool

Fear Inoculum

Fifth album and first for thirteen years from the rock band led by Maynard James Keenan produced by Joe Barresi (Pallbearer, Bad Religion, Queens of the Stone Age)

Added: 30/08/2019
7.6

Tinariwen

Elwan

Seventh album of Northern Africa inspired folk rock from the Grammy award winning group from Mali, with guest spots from Mark Lanegan and Kurt Vile

Added: 07/02/2017
7.6

Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra

Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light Over Everything

More experimental post-rock adventures from the latest incarnation of the ever-changing Canadian band

Added: 21/01/2014
7.6

The Hold Steady

Open Door Policy

Album number eight from the Brooklyn-based indie rock five-piece led by raconteur Craig Finn

Added: 17/02/2021
7.6

Steve Gunn

Eyes on the Lines

First album on Matador from the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and former Violators member

Added: 02/06/2016
7.6

Shearwater

Jet Plane and Oxbow

First album of new and original material in 4 years from Jonathan Meiburg's Austin indie/psych rock band, with additional composition/instrumentation by composer Brian Reitzell

Added: 15/01/2016
7.6

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings

Give the People What They Want

Fifth collection of recast vintage soul and funk from the Brooklyn-based revivalists

Added: 10/01/2014
7.6

Randy Newman

Dark Matter

Eleventh studio album and first since 2008 from legendary singer-songwriter

Added: 04/08/2017
7.6

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

Reset

Debut collaboration between Noah Lennox (Animal Collective) and Peter Kember (Spacemen 3)

Added: 10/08/2022
7.6

Omar Souleyman

Wenu Wenu

The legend of Syrian dabke folk pop music, with some 500 mixtapes, bootlegs and cassette records to his name, makes his official studio debut, produced in Brooklyn by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) accompanied by keyboard player Rizan Sa'id

Added: 21/10/2013
7.6

Okkervil River

Away

Eighth studio album from Will Sheff's alt/folk rock project, written in the wake of the death of his grandfather, and recorded with guests including Marissa Nadler and Jonathan Meiburg

Added: 07/09/2016
7.6

Neneh Cherry

Broken Politics

Fifth studio release by Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper produced by Four Tet

Added: 15/10/2018
7.6

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Psychedelic Pill

The 35th studio recording from the veteran singer-songriter and second of 2012 with Crazy Horse

Added: 25/10/2012
7.6

Marissa Nadler

Strangers

Seventh album from the Boston indie folk singer-songwriter, produced by longtime collaborator Randall Dunn

Added: 16/05/2016
7.6

Manchester Orchestra

A Black Mile To The Surface

Fifth album from the Atlanta alt.rock band produced by John Congleton (Future Islands, Explosions In the Sky) and Catherine Marks (The Killers, Foals)

Added: 27/07/2017
7.6

Khruangbin

Mordechai

Third album from the Texan trio influenced by Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music produced by Steve Christensen

Added: 25/06/2020
7.6

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

The Kid

Sixth album from the Orcas Island producer

Added: 05/10/2017
7.6

Julia Jacklin

Don't Let The Kids Win

Debut album from the Australian singer-songwriter, recorded in a studio in New Zealand

Added: 07/10/2016
7.6

Jagwar Ma

Howlin

Debut album from the Sydney-based psychedelic electronic pop duo

Added: 07/06/2013
7.6

Hozier

Unreal Unearth

Third album from the Irish singer songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne

Added: 18/08/2023
7.6

Holy Fuck

Congrats

Fourth album and first in six years from the Toronto-based experimental noise quartet

Added: 25/05/2016
7.6

Helena Hauff

Qualm

Second full-length electro album from the Hamburg-based DJ and producer

Added: 02/08/2018

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