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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

Lizzo

Special

Fourth album and major label debut from the Minneapolis alternative hip-hop artist Melissa Jefferson

Added: 15/07/2022
7.1

Liturgy

Aesthethica

Second album from the Brooklyn-based black metal four-piece

Added: 13/05/2011
7.1

Little Roy

Battle For Seattle

Jamaican roots reggae legend Little Roy covers a selection of Nirvana songs

Added: 05/09/2011
7.1

Lissie

My Wild West

Third album from the Illinois folk rock singer-songwriter Elisabeth Corrin Maurus

Added: 11/02/2016
7.1

Lindstrom & Christabelle

Real Life Is No Cool

Dance producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm teams up with fellow Norwegian singer Christabelle in his latest beat-heavy project

Added: 22/01/2010
7.1

Liars

TFCF

Album number eight from the Brooklyn-based experimental art rock / noise-rock trio

Added: 22/08/2017
7.1

Lee Ranaldo

Between The Times And Tides

The first solo album in four years from noise rock pioneer and Sonic Youth co-founder Ranaldo, his first with a full band

Added: 18/03/2012
7.1

Laura Jane Grace And The Devouring Mothers

Bought To Rot

Side project from the Against Me! singer/guitarist featuring Atom Willard and Marc Hudson

Added: 09/11/2018
7.1

Lanterns On The Lake

Gracious Tide, Take Me Home

Debut album of downtempo acoustic folk with touches of electronic ambience from this Newcastle sextet

Added: 16/09/2011
7.1

Lamb

5

Fifth album from the Manchester folky trip-hop duo who reformed in 2009

Added: 24/07/2011
7.1

Laetitia Sadier

Silencio

Second solo album from the French-born Stereolab frontwoman following the indefinite hiatus of the band announced in 2009

Added: 22/07/2012
7.1

Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort

Invariable Heartache

Collaboration from Lambchop front man Wagner and Nashville singer-songwriter Tidwell

Added: 14/10/2010
7.1

Keren Ann

101

Sixth studio album from Dutch/Israel singer-songwriter

Added: 23/03/2011
7.1

K.C. Accidental

Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub / Anthems For The Could've Been Pills

Repackaged release of two EPs by the Toronto indie post-rock duo that went on to form Broken Social Scene

Added: 29/11/2010
7.1

Junip

Junip

Second album of folk / krautrock / psychedelia from the Swedish trio featuring singer-songwriter José González

Added: 22/04/2013
7.1

Joyce Manor

Cody

Fourth studio album of indie punk from the California quartet

Added: 07/10/2016
7.1

John Legend

Darkness And Light

Fifth studio album of soulful r&b from the singer-songwriter, featuring guest spots from Chance the Rapper, Brittany Howard, and Miguel

Added: 05/12/2016
7.1

John Cale

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood

This album of alternative rock with electronic elements from the ex-Velvet Underground member, now in his 70s, features guest production from Danger Mouse

Added: 30/09/2012
7.1

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Here We Rest

Third album of country rock from the former Drive-By Trucker

Added: 14/04/2011
7.1

James Yorkston And The Big Eyes Family Players

Folk Songs

The Fife folk singer-songwriter teamed with the Sheffield outfit for an album of traditional-style songs

Added: 01/08/2009
7.1

Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell

Psychic Life

The onetime PIL bassman teams up with Lonelady and former PIL guitarist Keith Levine on an album encompassing electronica, dub, jazz and more

Added: 15/11/2011
7.1

Iron & Wine

Beast Epic

First album of new material in nearly four years from Sam Beam's indie folk outfit

Added: 21/08/2017
7.1

Hudson Mohawke

Satin Panthers

More adventures in assorted electro / glitch hop / wonky styles on this mini album from the feted Scottish producer and DJ

Added: 10/08/2011
7.1

High Places

High Places vs Mankind?

Brooklyn experimental duo multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson with a second album of dub, polyrhythms and samples

Added: 31/03/2010
7.1

Hercules & Love Affair

Omnion

Album number four from Andy Bulter's disco/house project includes contributions from Sharon Van Etten and The Horrors’ Faris Badwan

Added: 01/09/2017
7.1

Hauschka

Abandoned City

Latest album of avante-garde electronic music / contemporary classical from Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann

Added: 13/03/2014
7.1

Guided By Voices

Class Clown Spots A UFO

Robert Pollard and co continue their reunion with their second album of lo-fi garage rock since they decided to get back together

Added: 13/06/2012
7.1

Greg Dulli

Random Desire

First solo album from The Afghan Whigs/The Twilight Singers member

Added: 24/02/2020
7.1

Glasvegas

A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

Europe-only rarity from Glasgow's wall of sound pop/rock specialists

Added: 30/11/2008
7.1

Gaz Coombes

World's Strongest Man

Former Supergrass member's third solo studio album of alt-pop

Added: 04/05/2018

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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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"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

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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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"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

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