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8 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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7.1

The Morning Benders

Big Echo

Second album of upbeat, mainly acoustic, indie pop from the Californian quartet, produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear

Added: 17/03/2010
7.1

The Libertines

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade

First full-length album for nine years from the British indie rock band led by Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produced by Dimitri Tikovoï (Placebo, The Horrors, Charli XCX)

Added: 05/04/2024
7.1

The Invisible

Patience

Third album from the Mercury Prize-nominated London art rock band formed by Dave Okumu

Added: 10/06/2016
7.1

The Go! Team

Semicircle

Fifth album of alternative indie dance from the Brighton six-piece led by Ian Parton

Added: 14/01/2018
7.1

The Fall

Sub-Lingual Tablet

31st studio album from Mark E Smith's legendary post-punk outfit

Added: 12/05/2015
7.1

The Dutchess And The Duke

Sunset/Sunrise

Alt country on the second release from singer-guitarists Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison

Added: 27/11/2009
7.1

The Dead Weather

Dodge and Burn

Third album from the bluesy psych rock group featuring Alison Mosshart and Jack White

Added: 25/09/2015
7.1

The Cribs

For All My Sisters

Sixth album from the Wakefield indie three piece, their first not to be released on Wichita

Added: 17/03/2015
7.1

The Corin Tucker Band

Kill My Blues

The former Sleater-Kinney frontwoman and her band with a second album of lo-fi rock

Added: 18/09/2012
7.1

The Avett Brothers

I And Love And You

Brothers Seth and Scott with their North Carolina folk-rock quartet’s major-label debut.

Added: 15/12/2009
7.1

Tasseomancy

Do Easy

Fourth album of indie folk from Toronto-based band led by twins Sari and Romy Lightman who are also members of Austra

Added: 17/11/2016
7.1

Swervedriver

I Wasn't Born To Lose You

Fifth studio album and first since 1998 from the Oxford alt.rock quartet who reformed in 2008 to tour

Added: 03/03/2015
7.1

Sun Kil Moon

Universal Themes

Seventh album of acoustic indie folk from singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, with contributions from Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley

Added: 01/06/2015
7.1

Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses)

The Low Highway

15th album from the country rock sing-songwriter and political activist, this time featuring his band

Added: 15/04/2013
7.1

Stealing Sheep

Not Real

Second album from the harmonic psych-folk Liverpool trio sees them utilise synths and drum machines this time

Added: 08/04/2015
7.1

Sonic Youth

Simon Werner a Disparu

The veteran alt.rock outfit with another soundtrack album, this time for director Fabrice Gobert’s high-school thriller

Added: 23/02/2011
7.1

Son Volt

Notes of Blue

Eighth album from the Missouri alt country group formed by Jay Farrar

Added: 15/02/2017
7.1

Sleater-Kinney

Path Of Wellness

Tenth album from the Olympia, Washington all-girl punk trio is the first they've self-produced

Added: 09/06/2021
7.1

Sherwood & Pinch

Man Vs. Sofa

Second collaboration from dubstep artists Adrian Sherwood and Rob Ellis

Added: 23/02/2017
7.1

Shabazz Palaces

The Don Of Diamond Dreams

Fifth album from the Seattle experimental hip-hop collective led by Ishmael Butler

Added: 17/04/2020
7.1

SASAMI

Blood On the Silver Screen

Third album from LA-based singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth featuring a guest appearance from Clairo and was co-produced with Jenn Decilveo and Rostam

Added: 07/03/2025
7.1

Sambassadeur

European

Third album of pastoral, orchestral indie pop from Swedish five-piece

Added: 23/02/2010
7.1

Sabrina Carpenter

Short n' Sweet

Sixth full-length album from pop the singer-songwriter features working with producers Jack Antonoff, Julian Bunetta, Ian Kirkpatrick and John Ryan

Added: 24/08/2024
7.1

Roger Waters

Is This The Life We Really Want?

Fifth studio album from the Pink Floyd co-founder and first for 25 years produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, U2, R.E.M.)

Added: 30/05/2017
7.1

Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique

Love Is Free

Collaboration between Robyn, her keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt, and late producer and club music veteran Christian Falk

Added: 10/08/2015
7.1

Rise Against

Endgame

Sixth album - in 10 years no less - from the Chicago punk outfit

Added: 15/03/2011
7.1

Richard Hawley

Truelove's Gutter

Sixth album of alt-pop from the former Pulp man and Jarvis Cocker ally

Added: 12/09/2009
7.1

Richard Buckner

Our Blood

First album in five years from the alt.country singer-songwriter increasingly embracing electronica

Added: 02/08/2011
7.1

Rhye

Home

Fourth album of alternative R&B from the LA-based Michael Milosh features the Danish National Girls' Choir

Added: 22/01/2021
7.1

Retribution Gospel Choir

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Alt.rock side project for Low's frontman Alan Sparhawk

Added: 28/01/2010

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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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