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  1. 8.6

    ADM Rating
    Lotus

    Little Simz

    Lotus

    Sixth album of soulful hip-hop from London-rapper Simbiatu Ajikawo featuring guest appearances from Michael Kiwanuka, Miraa May, Yukimi Nagano, Obongjayar, Sampha, Moonchild Sanelly, Moses Sumney and Wretch 32

    Added: 05/06/2025

     
  2. 8.4

    Caroline 2

    caroline

    Caroline 2

    Second full-length album from the London-based eight-member post-rock group

    Added: 29/05/2025

     
  3. 8.2

    Birthing

    Swans

    Birthing

    Seventheenth studio album from Michael Gira's New York experimental rock band

    Added: 05/06/2025

     
  4. 8.1

    Never Enough

    Turnstile

    Never Enough

    Fourth full-length album from the Baltimore hardcore band and first to not feature founding guitarist Brady Ebert following his 2022 departure

    Added: 05/06/2025

     
  5. 8.0

    Crooked Wing

    These New Puritans

    Crooked Wing

    Fifth studio album from the arty post-rock outfit led by twins Jack & George Barnett

    Added: 22/05/2025

     
  6. 8.0

    Big City Life

    Smerz

    Big City Life

    Second studio album from the Norwegian electronic duo Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt

    Added: 29/05/2025

     
  7. 8.0

    WE WERE MADE PREY.

    Kathryn Joseph

    WE WERE MADE PREY.

    Fourth album from the Inverness-born singer-songwriter co-produced with Lomond Campbell

    Added: 04/06/2025

     
  8. 8.0

    Instant Holograms On Metal Film

    Stereolab

    Instant Holograms On Metal Film

    Eleventh album and first in fifteen years from the indie rock veterans

    Added: 22/05/2025

     
  9. 7.8

    Evangelic Girl Is A Gun

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    Evangelic Girl Is A Gun

    Fourth album of ambient / glitch pop from London-based, Singapore-born producer Nat Cmiel

    Added: 01/06/2025

     
  10. 7.8

    I quit

    Haim

    I quit

    Fourth studio album from the LA pop rock trio Este, Danielle and Alana Haim produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam Batmanglij and Buddy Ross

    Added: 18/06/2025

     
  11. 7.8

    Loyle Carner

    hopefully!

    Fourth album from the South London, Mercury Prize-nominated hip-hop artist

    Added: 20/06/2025

     
  12. 7.8

    Hayden Pedigo

    I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away

    Latest album from the Texas-born avant-garde musician produced and mixed by former Hiss Golden Messenger member Scott Hirsch

    Added: 11/06/2025

     
  13. 7.8

    Pulp

    More

    Album number eight and first in 23 years from the indie pop band formed in Sheffield in 1978

    Added: 02/06/2025

     
  14. 7.7

    Ty Segall

    Possession

    Latest release from the Laguna Beach, California multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter

    Added: 30/05/2025

     
  15. 7.6

    Sparks

    MAD!

    Album number twentysix from the Los Angeles synth pop / art rock duo Ron and Russell Mael

    Added: 23/05/2025

     
  16. 7.6

    Hotline TNT

    Raspberry Moon

    Third full-length album from Will Anderson's shoegaze project produced by Amos Pitsch

    Added: 20/06/2025

     
  17. 7.5

    Matt Berninger

    Get Sunk

    Second solo album from The National's frontman

    Added: 30/05/2025

     
  18. 7.5

    Garbage

    Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

    Eighth studio album from the American-Scottish alt rockers influenced in part by singer Shirley Manson's hip replacement surgery

    Added: 29/05/2025

     
  19. 7.5

    Ezra Furman

    Goodbye Small Head

    Seventh solo album from the Chicago indie rock musician and singer-songwriter

    Added: 16/05/2025

     
  20. 7.4

    Patrick Wolf

    Crying The Neck

    Seventh studio album, and first since 2012, from the London pop / folktronica singer-songwriter

    Added: 16/06/2025

     
  21. 7.4

    Alan Sparhawk

    With Trampled by Turtles

    Second full-length solo album from Low's founder is a collaboration with Trampled By Turtles and produced by Nat Harvie

    Added: 30/05/2025

     
  22. 7.3

    Tune-Yards

    Better Dreaming

    Sixth album of indie art-pop from Merrill Garbus working with long-time band-member Nate Brenner

    Added: 16/05/2025

     
  23. 7.2

    Sports Team

    Boys These Days

    Third album from the London-based six-piece led by Alex Rice

    Added: 22/05/2025

     
  24. 7.2

    Death In Vegas

    Death Mask

    Sixth album and first for nine years from the English psych-rock / electronica band led by original member Richard Fearless

    Added: 06/06/2025

     
  25. 7.2

    Addison Rae

    Addison

    Debut album from the actress and singer produced by Elvira Anderfjärd Luka Kloser

    Added: 09/06/2025

     
  26. 7.2

    Lifeguard

    Ripped And Torn

    Second studio from the Chicago indo rock trio produced by No Age”s Randy Randall

    Added: 06/06/2025

     
  27. 7.1

    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

    Phantom Island

    The 27th studio album from the Melbourne psych-rock six-piece features a collaboration with composer Chad Kelly

    Added: 13/06/2025

     
  28. 7.1

    Peter Doherty

    Felt Better Alive

    Latest solo album from the Libertines and Babyshambles leader

    Added: 15/05/2025

     
  29. 7.1

    Billy Nomates

    Metalhorse

    Third full-length album from the Leicester-born singer-songwriter Tor Maries

    Added: 15/05/2025

     
  30. 6.9

    Aesop Rock

    Black Hole Superette

    Eighth album from the San Francisco-based hip hop artist and producer Ian Matthias Bavitz feuturing guest appearances from Hanni El Khatib, Armand Hammer, Lupe Fiasco and Open Mike Eagle

    Added: 02/06/2025

     

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