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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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6.9

Ital

Dream On

Daniel Martin-McCormick's 2nd release of 2012, this time dealing in experimental techno, lo-fi electro and other assorted dance stylings

Added: 12/11/2012
6.9

Islet

Eyelet

Third full-length release and first in seven years from the Cardiff-based psych-rock trio

Added: 06/03/2020
6.9

Into It. Over It.

Figure

Fourth album from the Chicago-based emo / indie rock musician Evan Thomas Weiss

Added: 22/09/2020
6.9

Ikonika

Aerotropolis

London-based producer Sara Abdel-Hamid's 2nd album, switching from dubstep to old-school house and synthpop jams

Added: 05/08/2013
6.9

Idjut Boys

Cellar Door

The London DJ duo with their first proper "artist" album, a laid-back affair featuring an array of guests

Added: 27/07/2012
6.9

Happyness

FLOATR

Third album of alt-rock from the London duo Jonny Allan and Ash Kenazi

Added: 01/05/2020
6.9

Green Day

Saviors

Fourtheenth studio release from the pop-punk trio, produced by Rob Cavallo (Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Dave Matthews Band)

Added: 15/01/2024
6.9

Grasscut

Unearth

Electronica and experimental indie from the Brighton duo on their 2nd album, themed on the British landscape

Added: 17/07/2012
6.9

Gogol Bordello

Pura Vida Conspiracy

Sixth album of rabble-rousing folk-rock from the New York based Gypsy Punk pioneers

Added: 22/07/2013
6.9

Frankie Rose

Love As Projection

Fifth solo album from the ex-drummer of garage rock heavyweights Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and the Vivian Girls

Added: 10/03/2023
6.9

Foo Fighters

Wasting Light

Dave Grohl brings in Nevermind producer Butch Vig for the veteran alt.rock band's latest, recorded on analogue tape and with a guest appearance from Krist Novoselic

Added: 25/03/2011
6.9

Felicita

Hej!

Full-length debut album from the London-based producer Dominik Dvorak features a guest appearance from Chairlift's Caroline Polachek

Added: 10/08/2018
6.9

Essaie Pas

Demain Est Une Autre Nuit

Montreal-based duo's debut album of experimental techno/electronica, released by DFA Records

Added: 23/02/2016
6.9

Esben And The Witch

Violet Cries

Debut album from the Brighton-based Goth-tinted indie rock trio

Added: 25/01/2011
6.9

Eric Church

The Outsiders

Fourth studio album from the North Carolina-born country / southern rock singer-songwriter

Added: 21/02/2014
6.9

Ellis

Born Again

Debut full-length from Canadian indie-rock/dream-pop singer-songwriter Linnea Siggelkow

Added: 06/04/2020
6.9

Dope Body

Natural History

Second album from the Baltimore quartet that merges math rock and hardcore punk

Added: 30/05/2012
6.9

Darren Hayman And The Short Parliament

Bugbears

Third album in the 17th century Essex witch trials trilogy from the prolific English singer-songwriter

Added: 16/07/2013
6.9

Damien Jurado

Saint Bartlett

Album No.10 of heartfelt earnest indie rock / indie folk from the Seattle-born singer-songwriter

Added: 25/05/2010
6.9

Cults

Static

Second album of reverb-soaked indie pop from New York duo Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion

Added: 15/10/2013
6.9

City And Colour

The Hurry and the Harm

Singer-songwriter and ex-Alexisonfire singer Dallas Green(Dallas is a city and green is a colour) releases his fourth solo album

Added: 07/06/2013
6.9

C Duncan

Health

Third album from the classically trained Glasgow-born indie pop composer and musician working with producers including Elbow's Craig Potter

Added: 29/03/2019
6.9

Brendan Benson

Dear Life

Seventh solo album of power pop and alternative rock from the Michigan singer-songwriter and member of The Raconteurs

Added: 24/04/2020
6.9

Bettye Lavette

Worthy

A Joe Henry-produced covers collection from the soul legend

Added: 03/02/2015
6.9

Band Of Horses

Why Are You OK

Fifth album from the North Carolina indie rock / Americana band produced by Grandaddy's Jason Lytle

Added: 10/06/2016
6.9

Baby Queen

Quarter Life Crisis

Debut full-length album from the South African-born London-based alt-pop artist

Added: 10/11/2023
6.9

Andy Stott

Never the Right Time

Album number six from the Manchester-based dub and techno producer

Added: 22/04/2021
6.9

Anderson East

Encore

Fourth studio album from the Alabama-born, Nashville-based Southern soul / R&B singer

Added: 16/01/2018
6.9

Amiina

The Lighthouse Project

EP from frequent Sigur Rós collaborators of ambient, contemporary classical songs originally played during a tour of lighthouses and other unusual locations

Added: 18/07/2013
6.9

Alex Cameron

Jumping The Shark

Debut full-length solo album from the Sydney-based Seekae co-founder

Added: 19/08/2016

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