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8 November 2024

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Primal ScreamCome Ahead

"A triumph in thematic/aural juxtaposition. Up there with Primal Scream’s best" (8/10 Mojo) OR "Not even David Holmes’s involvement can save this woefully inadequate collection" (2/10 - Irish Times)

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Tyler, The CreatorChromakopia

"‘It has depth, it has worldbuilding, but just as importantly, it has some absolute bangers, too" (10/10 - Dork). "it's as free as he's ever sounded" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

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Laura MarlingPatterns in Repeat Signed

"Both stunningly intimate and endearingly raw" (10/10 - DIY). "A homey, quiet record. It’s one of the best of her career" (8.3/10 - Pitchfork). "Simple, graceful, moving, tender" (9/10 - Uncut)

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Christopher OwensI Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

"Potentially one of the year’s best records" (10/10 - DIY). "A must-listen for anyone who’s ever been in the type of love that doesn’t always get a light shone on it" (9/10 - Northern Transmissions)

Ezra CollectiveDance, No One's Watching

"This is truly a fresh musical experience, rather than being just another jazz record" (9/10 - Far Out). "A joyful reminder of music’s ability to bring people together, to move us, and to make us dance" (8/10 - Clash)

Jamie xxIn Waves

"Blistering return from dance’s master craftsman" (10/10 - The irish Times). "Jamie xx has delivered a masterpiece that will linger long after the last beat fades" (9/10 - Clash)

Floating PointsCascade

"Cherish it while you can, before he sets off on a completely different tangent once more" (8/10 - Far Out). "Easily the most successful work he's made as a dance producer" (8/10 - All Music)

MJ LendermanManning Fireworks

"A collection of caricatures ballooned by empathy, bruised egos, and lovable self-destruction" (9.2/10 - Paste). "It's the release he's been waiting for since the first utterances of the album" (9/10 - Exclaim)

Nick Cave And The Bad SeedsWild God

"The dark intensities are leavened by something peculiar in Cave’s oeuvre: joy" (8/10 - The Arts Desk). "The joy after the storm" (8/10 - The Irish Times)

Gillian Welch & David RawlingsWoodland

"The intuitive bond between the two musicians remains at the forefront of their terrific new album, full of quiet adventures and clear empathy" (8/10 - Pitchfork)

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6.9

Michael Mayer

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Latest release from the Kompakt co-founder, remixer, DJ, and producer

Added: 04/11/2016
6.9

Mazes

A Thousand Heys

Debut album from Manchester quartet influenced by late 80s, early 90s US alt-rock

Added: 08/04/2011
6.9

Mayer Hawthorne

Where Does This Door Go

Fourth album from Michigan-born purveyor of old school soul music with contributions from Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar and Jesse Ware

Added: 15/07/2013
6.9

Martha Wainwright

Come Home To Mama

Third studio album from the Canadian folk /rock singer-songwiter includes a song written by her mother the late Kate McGarrigle

Added: 11/10/2012
6.9

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood

Black Pudding

First studio collaboration between the former Screaming Trees frontman and the London-based multi-instrumentalist

Added: 13/05/2013
6.9

London Grammar

If You Wait

Much-anticipated debut album from the UK pop / art pop trio pitched somewhere between the xx and Florence and the Machine, having guested on Disclosure's album

Added: 04/09/2013
6.9

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Fishing For Fishes

Album number fourteen from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece

Added: 26/04/2019
6.9

Kimbra

Primal Heart

Third album from the New Zealand singer, encompassing electropop, soul and R&B working with Natasha Bedingfield, Skrillex and John Congleton

Added: 22/04/2018
6.9

Kelly Clarkson

chemistry

Tenth studio album from the pop/rock singer featuring contributions from Carly Rae Jepsen, Nick Jonas, Steve Martin and Sheila E

Added: 05/07/2023
6.9

Keaton Henson

Kindly Now

Sixth album from the London folk-rock singer-songwriter, visual artist and poet

Added: 15/09/2016
6.9

Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police

Solo album number eighteen from the former member of indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls and The Lemonheads is a cover album of songs by The Police

Added: 15/11/2019
6.9

Joyce Manor

40 Oz. To Fresno

The California quartet's sixth studio album of pop/rock produced by Rob Schnapf (Tokyo Police Club, Ducktails, The Vines)

Added: 14/06/2022
6.9

John Mellencamp

Sad Clowns & Hillbillies

Album number twenty three from the rock roots singer-songwriter and guitarist features Carlene Carter

Added: 01/05/2017
6.9

John Carpenter

Lost Themes III

Latest release from the legendary film director and composer working again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies

Added: 03/02/2021
6.9

Jerry Lee Lewis

Rock & Roll Time

The Rock n Roll veteran's latest is a collection of blues, rock-and-roll and country covers featuring the likes of Keith Richards and Neil Young

Added: 28/10/2014
6.9

Iggy Pop

Free

Eighteenth solo album from the legendary singer and former Stooges frontman

Added: 04/09/2019
6.9

Hello Skinny

Hello Skinny

Debut solo release from London-based drummer-turned-producer Tom Skinner, encompassing jazz, electronica, trip hop, dub and more

Added: 09/11/2012
6.9

Heliotropes

A Constant Sea

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based all-girl psych rock quartet

Added: 01/07/2013
6.9

Hannah Cohen

Pleasure Boy

Second album from the New York-based singer-songwriter

Added: 13/04/2015
6.9

HAAi

Baby, We're Ascending

Debut full-length release from the London-based Australian DJ/producer working with Jon Hopkins and featuring guest appearances from Obi Franky, poet Kai-Isaiah Jamal and Alexis Taylor

Added: 27/05/2022
6.9

Gulp

All Good Wishes

Second album of fuzzy dream-pop from Guto Pryce (Super Furry Animals) and Lindsey Leven and Gid Goundrey

Added: 09/08/2018
6.9

Graham Nash

Now

Seventh solo album and first in seven years from the former Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singer-songwriter

Added: 01/06/2023
6.9

Glen Campbell

See You There

Reworkings of some of his favourite songs from the legendary country singer - recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's - recorded during the making of 2011's Ghost On The Canvas

Added: 06/08/2013
6.9

Girl Ray

Prestige

Third album from the Brighton-based indie pop trio

Added: 04/08/2023
6.9

Forest Fire

Survival

Debut release from the harmonising Brooklyn indie rock quartet

Added: 26/07/2009
6.9

Foreign Born

Person To Person

Second album from four piece LA-based folk-rock band

Added: 23/07/2009
6.9

Flo Milli

You Still Here, Ho?

Debut studio album from the Mobile, Alabama rapper Tamia Monique Carter

Added: 24/07/2022
6.9

Faustus

Broken Down Gentlemen

Second album of traditional English folk from Saul Rose and Bellowhead's Paul Sartin and Benji Kirkpatrick

Added: 14/03/2013
6.9

Empire State Bastard

Rivers Of Heresy

Debut full-length release of estreme metal from Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil and ex-Oceansize musician Mike Vennart

Added: 01/09/2023
6.9

Disappears

Irreal

Fifth album of krautrock and shoegaze from the Chicago quartet led by Brian Case (ex-90 Day Men)and produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, The Walkmen, Modest Mouse)

Added: 21/01/2015

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Primal Scream Come Ahead

Bobby Gillespie is good at posturing, as rock frontmen ought to be, but emotional depth isn’t his thing The FT

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As usual with Smith at his saddest, you don’t leave his orbit feeling worse about the world. You feel comforted by the fact that someone shares this universal pain so deeply A.V. Club

Tyler, The Creator Chromakopia

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