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24 July 2026

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Yard ActYou're Gonna Need A Little Music

"A deliberate retreat from their role as commentators; here, their medium has become the music" (10/10 - NME)

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LoatheA Stranger To You

"A record that’s challenging yet not impenetrable, one fans will want to devote time to, that’s also vast in its ambition, and executed to stunning effect" (10/10 - Kerrang)

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Nia ArchivesEmotional Junglist

"Another powerful work from an artist who continually pushes jungle into new territory" (8/10 - All Music). "An album that breaks through the ceiling of her potential" (9/10 - DIY)

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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

Boards of CanadaInferno

"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

THE CHART: THE TOP RATED NEW ALBUMS

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mary in the junkyard

Role Model Hermit

Debut full-length album from the London indie rock trio produced by Oli Bayston and mixed by Ben Baptie

Added: 03/07/2026
7.9

Kelela

new avatar

Third album of electro R&B from the Washington DC singer-songwriter featuring guest appearances from A. K. Paul, Fousheé and PinkPantheress

Added: 10/07/2026
7.9

Kelsey Lu

So Help me God

Second album from the North Carolina-born cellist and singer-songwriter featuring contributions from Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Oli Jacobs, Yves Rothman, Sampha and Kamasi Washington

Added: 15/06/2026
7.9

BIG I BRAVE

in grief or in hope

The latest full-length release from Canadian experimental post-metal band was produced and mixed by Seth Manchester

Added: 29/06/2026
7.8

Beth Orton

The Ground Above

Album number nine from the Norwich-based electronic folk singer-songwriter

Added: 26/06/2026
7.8

Yard Act

You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Third full-length release from the Leeds post-punk trio

Added: 17/07/2026
7.7

Chanel Beads

Your Day Will Come

Second full-length album from NYC-based dream pop artist Shane Lavers

Added: 26/06/2026
7.6

Charli XCX

Music, Fashion, Film

The latest album from the English electro pop star featuring contributions from A. G. Cook, David Cronenberg and Finn Keane

Added: 24/07/2026
7.6

Nia Archives

Emotional Junglist

Second full-length studio release from the Bradford-born jungle producer and DJ featuring guest appearances from Sampha and Jorja Smith

Added: 17/07/2026
7.6

Loathe

A Stranger To You

Fourth full-length album from the Liverpool metalcore band featuring guest appearances from Mansur Brown, Nowhere2run, Jordan Rakei, Static Dress and Bucki Sugar

Added: 20/07/2026
7.5

Downtown Boys

Public Luxury

Third album from the Providence, Rhode Island punk rock band co-produced by guitarist Joey La Neve DeFrancesco and recording engineer Seth Manchester

Added: 27/06/2026
7.5

Jack White

Frozen Charlotte

Seventh full-length solo album was recorded in Nashville features a sculpture by White that is part of his exhibition "These Thoughts May Disappear"

Added: 10/07/2026
7.5

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

? of When

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

Added: 10/07/2026
7.4

Lenny Kaye

Goin' Local

First full-length solo album from frequent Patti Smith collaborator featuring a song co-written with Smith

Added: 20/07/2026
7.4

Graham Coxon

Castle Park

Ninth solo album from the Blur guitarist originally recorded in 2011 and produced by Ben Hillier (Nadine Shah, Depeche Mode, Blur)

Added: 19/06/2026
7.4

Madonna

Confessions II

Fifteenth studio album and first in seven years from the singer is a sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)

Added: 03/07/2026
7.2

horsegiirL

Nature Is Healing

Debut full-length album from the Berlin-based electronic producer featuring production by A.G. Cook, Casey MQ, Elof Loelv, FREE Jimi, Luvhuhter, Margo XS, Nomak and Suena

Added: 16/06/2026
7.2

Fruit Bats

The Landfill

Latest release from Eric D. Johnson's indie folk band recorded at Washington's Bear Creek Studios with the full band

Added: 26/06/2026
7.2

YHWH Nailgun

Magazine

Second album from the New York electronic post-punk quartet

Added: 16/06/2026
7.1

The Rolling Stones

Foreign Tongues

The twenty-fifth studio album from the rock veterans produced by Andrew Watt and featuring guest appearanced from Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Robert Smith and Chad Smith

Added: 01/07/2026
6.9

Deep Purple

SPLAT!

Album number twentyfour from the British hard rock band was produced by Bob Ezrin (Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel)

Added: 03/07/2026
6.8

Tricky

Different When It’s Silent

Fifteenth studio album from the English trip hop artist featurung guest appearances by Marta, Radana, Run Red and Mitch Sandersfrom

Added: 17/07/2026
6.6

Muse

The Wow! Signal

Tenth album from the English alt rockers working with producers Dan Lancaster and Aleks Von Korff

Added: 26/06/2026
6.5

The Strokes

Reality Awaits

Seventh album and first in six years from the New York indie rock band produced by Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Eminem, Kanye West)

Added: 24/07/2026
6.3

Yes

Aurora

Twenty-fourth studio album from English prog rocker band produced by guitarist Steve Howe and featuring the Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Added: 16/06/2026
5.9

Sienna Spiro

Visitor

Debut full-length album from the London-born singer-songwriter featuring songs co-written with Omer Fedi, Emile Haynie, Leon Michels, Michael Pollack, Jakob Rabitsch and Mary Weitz

Added: 03/07/2026
5.7

Gracie Abrams

Daughter From Hell

Third album from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter featuring contributions from Aaron Dessner, Marcus Mumford, Dan Nigro and Justin Vernon

Added: 17/07/2026

Latest Reviews

Charli XCX Music, Fashion, Film

If anything, Charli should’ve probably taken more time to develop this release – especially considering she just released Wuthering Heights earlier in the year. With a bit more time and development, Music, Fashion, Film could’ve been Sputnik Music (staff)

The Strokes Reality Awaits

I’m a huge advocate for Auto-Tune when it's used with purpose, but here it feels like it's fighting against everything that made The Strokes great The Arts Desk

The Strokes Reality Awaits

The veteran band’s latest album is an at times thrilling, often inscrutable, sometimes straight-up bizarre addition to their story Rolling Stone

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Role Model Hermit by mary in the junkyard

"A magnificent feat in angry, sad and fantastical folk-rock" (10/10 - The Skinny). The complex instrumental layerings and weaving storylines will entrance you (8/10 - Clash)

The Rolling StonesForeign Tongues
The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood make growing old sound like the best fun ever" (8/10 - The Irish Times)

MadonnaConfessions II
"After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back? nicely into? old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York" (8/10 - The Guardian)

MuseThe Wow! Signal
"Sometimes preposterous times call for preposterous music" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "Not only sees them break that purgatorial cycle, but suggests that more greatness is on the way" (8/10 - Clash)

Chanel BeadsYour Day Will Come
"Your Day Will Come is not the future of pop or rock, but nothing yet sounds this much like the present" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "All about refinement rather than repetition" (8/10 - NME)

Graham CoxonCastle Park
"It’s a rare delight to hear him back in the driving seat" (8/10 - DIY). "Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower
"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze
"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.

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