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7 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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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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7.2

John Foxx And The Maths

Interplay

Collaboration between the original Ultravox frontman and synth archivist Ben 'Benge' Edwards

Added: 04/04/2011
7.2

Jesca Hoop

The House That Jack Built

The American alt.folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with her 3rd album, having relocated from LA to Manchester

Added: 20/06/2012
7.2

Jen Cloher

Jen Cloher

Album number four from the Australian singer-songwriter and label owner featuring her partner Courtney Barnett

Added: 14/08/2017
7.2

Japandroids

Fate & Alcohol

Fourth and final album from Canadian duo Brian King and David Prowse co-produced with Jesse Gander

Added: 18/10/2024
7.2

I'm From Barcelona

Forever Today

Fourth album from Swedish indie pop band boasting 29 members founded by singer Emanuel Lundgren

Added: 04/05/2011
7.2

Holly Humberstone

Paint My Bedroom Black

Debut full-length album from the English indie-pop singer-songwriter featureing a guest appearance by d4vd

Added: 13/10/2023
7.2

Helm

Olympic Mess

Second full-length release from the London-based electronic artist Luke Younger

Added: 19/06/2015
7.2

Grails

Chalice Hymnal

First album in 6 years from the Portland post-rock group

Added: 24/02/2017
7.2

Girls Names

The New Life

Second album of surf rock and noise pop from the Belfast quartet

Added: 22/02/2013
7.2

Freakwater

Scheherazade

Album number 10 and first since 2005 from the alt.country Louisville, Kentucky

Added: 12/02/2016
7.2

Francis Lung

Miracle

Second solo album from the Manchester-based singer-songwriter and ex-Wu Lyf bassist recorded in rural Wales

Added: 18/06/2021
7.2

Flohio

Out Of Heart

Debut full-length release from the Nigerian-born, London-based hip-hop artist features a guest appearance from HAWA

Added: 09/10/2022
7.2

Fionn Regan

The Bunkhouse Vol. I: Anchor Black Tattoo

Fourth release from the Irish folk singer-songwriter recorded to four-track with one mic

Added: 25/01/2013
7.2

Femi Kuti

Journey Through Life

Latest full-length release from the London-born, Lagos-raised saxophonist who is the oldest son of the late Afrobeat artist Fele Kuti

Added: 28/04/2025
7.2

Esben And The Witch

Older Terrors

Fourth album from the English indie rock trio recorded in Berlin, their new base

Added: 06/11/2016
7.2

Enumclaw

Home Is Another Life

Second album from the Tacoma, Washington indie rock quartet

Added: 30/08/2024
7.2

Eleanor Friedberger

Rebound

Fourth studio album from the American singer-songwriter and Fiery Furnaces member

Added: 30/04/2018
7.2

E.m.m.a.

Blue Gardens

Debut album from Liverpool-born, London-based producer with contributions from Sully and Rebel MC

Added: 21/08/2013
7.2

Dutch Interior

Moneyball

Debut full-length release from the slowcore, country-rock California collective who rotate singer/songwriters

Added: 21/03/2025
7.2

Duke Special

Oh Pioneer

Album number ten from the Irish singer-songwriter and pianist Peter Wilson

Added: 09/07/2012
7.2

Doug Paisley

Constant Companion

Second album of Alt country from the Toronto-based singer-sonwriter

Added: 21/01/2011
7.2

Devendra Banhart

Ma

Tenth studio album of alt indie folk from the Texas-born singer-songwriter/guitarist

Added: 10/09/2019
7.2

Denai Moore

Modern Dread

Third album from the British-Jamaican soul/R&B singer

Added: 06/07/2020
7.2

Deerhoof

Noble And Godlike In Ruin

Album number nineteen from the experimental San Francisco indie rock quartet featuring a guest appearance from Saul Williams

Added: 25/04/2025
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
7.2

Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles

Second self-titled album from the Toronto-based electro duo

Added: 07/05/2010
7.2

Creep Show

Yawning Abyss

Second collaboration between John Grant, Wrangler's Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter and Benge

Added: 22/06/2023
7.2

Courtney Marie Andrews

Honest Life

Third album from the Phoenix, Arizona indie-folk singer-songwriter

Added: 29/01/2017
7.2

Corinne Bailey Rae

The Sea

Second soul/R&B album from Leeds singer-songwriter informed by death of her husband Jason Rae

Added: 26/01/2010
7.2

Conquering Animal Sound

Kammerspiel

Debut album of experimental pop and ambient textures from the Glasgow duo

Added: 25/03/2011

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