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6 July 2025

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Kesha. [Period]

". isn't just a good album, it's a decisively great one, full stop" (9/10 - All Music). "A buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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Kae TempestSelf Titled

"Instinctive and raw, yet tender to the touch, his most powerful statement yet demands to be heard" (9/10 - musicOMH). "A beefy, self-assured celebration of newfound identity" (8/10 - NME)

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Rival ConsolesLandscape From Memory

"A reset of sorts brings forth an album full of positive energy, showcasing electronic music at its most instinctive" (8/10 - musicOMH). "The record's best tracks are exceptional" (7/10 - All Music)

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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)

Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

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7.3

Humanist

Humanist

Debut album from Exit Calm guitarist Rob Marshall includes appearances from Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan and Ron Sexsmith

Added: 21/02/2020
7.3

Hayden Thorpe

Moondust For My Diamond

Second solo album from the former Wild Beasts frontman and multi-instrumentalist produced by Richard Formby and Nathan Jenkins

Added: 15/10/2021
7.3

Hana Vu

Public Storage

Debut full-length album from the Los Angeles DIY singer-songwriter

Added: 09/11/2021
7.3

Gabe Gurnsey

Physical

Debut full-length solo album from one of the founders of Factory Floor

Added: 03/08/2018
7.3

Earl Sweatshirt

Feet Of Clay

Second EP from LA-based rapper working with producers Thebe Kgositsile, Alchemist and ovrkast

Added: 05/11/2019
7.3

Durand Jones & The Indications

Private Space

Third full-length album from the Indiana retro-soul and R&B group

Added: 30/07/2021
7.3

Dream Wife

So When You Gonna...

Second album of angular indie-pop from the London-based trio

Added: 01/07/2020
7.3

Dirty Projectors

Lamp Lit Prose

Eighth studio album of experimental indie rock from David Longstreth's Brooklyn-based outfit

Added: 09/07/2018
7.3

Deftones

Diamond Eyes

Full-on metal from the Sacramento five-piece with a stand-in bassist on an album to replace on-hold Eros

Added: 06/05/2010
7.3

Deerhoof

La Isla Bonita

Album number twelve from the San Francisco noise pop quartet produced by Nick Sylvester and recorded live in guitarist Ed Rodriguez's basement

Added: 03/11/2014
7.3

Courtney Marie Andrews

Old Flowers

Latest full-length release from the Phoenix, Arizona indie-folk singer-songwriter

Added: 23/07/2020
7.3

Califone

Stitches

Latest from experimental post-rock Chicago outfit fronted by multi-instrumentalist Tim Rutili

Added: 13/09/2013
7.3

Brood Ma

Daze

Third album from the electronic London-based producer James B Stringer

Added: 22/02/2016
7.3

Brian D’Addario

Till The Morning

Debut full-length release from The Lemon Twigs' member produced with his brother Michael D'Addario and Daryl Johns

Added: 21/03/2025
7.3

Bombay Bicycle Club

A Different Kind Of Fix

Third album from the London indie rock quartet is an electric affair after the acoustic second album Flaws

Added: 22/08/2011
7.3

Bill Fay

Who Is The Sender?

Second album in three years from the veteran English singer-songwriter who's previous release had been in 1971

Added: 28/04/2015
7.3

Architects

The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit

Album number ten from the Brighton metal core band produced with Dan Searle

Added: 21/10/2022
7.3

Alicia Keys

Here

Sixth album from the Grammy-winning urban soul singer working with husband Swizz Beats and Mark Batson

Added: 07/11/2016
7.3

Alan Vega

Mutator

Posthumous release of the Suicide frontman's songs recorded with Liz Lamere in 1995-1996 is the first in a series of unreleased and rare material from the Vega Vault

Added: 24/04/2021
7.3

Yeti Lane

The Echo Show

Album No.2 from the French psych pop / shoegaze band, now a duo following the departure of founding member LoAc Carron

Added: 01/03/2012
7.3

Wooden Shjips

West

Latest album from the San Franciscan psychedelic group, this time recorded in a "proper studio."

Added: 01/08/2011
7.3

Why?

Moh Lhean

Fifth album from Jonathan ""Yoni"" Wolf's Californian hip hop and indie rock collective

Added: 03/03/2017
7.3

Whitney

Forever Turned Around

Second album from former Smith Westerns members guitarist Max Kakacek and singer/drummer Julien Ehrlich

Added: 28/08/2019
7.3

Weird Dreams

Choreography

Debut album following a couple of well-received EPs from the London psych-pop quartet

Added: 02/04/2012
7.3

We Were Promised Jetpacks

In the Pit of the Stomach

Second album of post-punk / indie rock from the Scottish four-piece

Added: 23/09/2011
7.3

Ty Segall

Sleeper

Hyperactive Californian garage rock specialist with the 6th album under his own name, this time switching to a bluesy acoustic feel

Added: 19/08/2013
7.3

Tune-Yards

I Can feel You Creep Into My Private Life

Fourth album of indie art-pop from Merrill Garbus, with long-time band-member Nate Brenner sharing the writing and production duties

Added: 15/01/2018
7.3

Todd Snider

Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables

The latest album of americana from this singer-songwriter from Oregon

Added: 09/03/2012
7.3

Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures

Debut from the rock supergroup that probably deserves the title, comprising Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones

Added: 14/11/2009
7.3

The Mountain Goats

All Eternals Deck

Album number 18 from the North Carolina indie folk-rock trio, this time with death metal producer Erik Rutan helping out

Added: 25/03/2011

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"A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans" (8/10 - All Music). "A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening" (6/10 - The Skinny)

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"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

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"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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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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