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4 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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6.4

Simone Felice

Simone Felice

Alt.country debut from the former Felice Brothers drummer, The Duke And The King frontman, poet and novelist

Added: 30/03/2012
6.4

Richard Youngs

Amplifying Host

Latest album of experimental folktronica from the prolific Glasgow-based musician featuring former Galaxie 500 drummer Damon Krukowski

Added: 18/07/2011
6.4

Ratatat

LP4

Fourth album of experimental instrumental electronic indie rock from the Washington DC duo

Added: 08/06/2010
6.4

Pity Sex

White Hot Moon

Second full-length release from the Ann Arbor, Michigan lo-fi indie rock quartet

Added: 03/05/2016
6.4

Muse

The Resistance

British prog rockers with their much-anticipated fifth album, three years after Black Holes and Revelations

Added: 09/09/2009
6.4

Malcolm Middleton

Summer Of '13

Latest album from the Scottish singer-songwriter, formerly of cult favourites Arab Strap

Added: 24/05/2016
6.4

M83

DSVII

Full-length studio release number eight from France's Anthony Gonzalez is a sequel to 2007's Digital Shades Vol. 1 inspired by early video game soundtracks, '80s sci-fi/fantasy films and analog synth pioneers such as Suzanne Ciani, Mort Garson, Brian Eno and John Carpenter

Added: 21/09/2019
6.4

Luke Temple

Don't Act Like You Don't Care

Third solo album of pop / folk from the Here We Go Magic frontman

Added: 16/08/2011
6.4

Luke Haines

21st Century Man

Former Auteurs and Black Box Recorder singer and author with his 6th solo album

Added: 02/11/2009
6.4

Kelis

Flesh Tone

Fifth album from New York R&B singer-songwriter

Added: 17/05/2010
6.4

Jimi Goodwin

Odludek

First solo record from the frontman of Manchester's Doves

Added: 21/03/2014
6.4

Jeniferever

Silesia

Third album of ambient post-rock from the four-piece from Uppsala, Sweden

Added: 11/04/2011
6.4

Inhaler

It Won’t Always Be Like This

Debut full-length album from the Dublin indie rock band led by Elijah Hewson (the eldest son of U2's Bono) and produced by Anthony Genn

Added: 08/07/2021
6.4

Glen Hansard

Rhythm And Repose

Debut solo album from the singer-songwriter known for his work in The Frames and also for acting in films such as Once

Added: 20/06/2012
6.4

Empire Of The Sun

Two Vines

Third studio album from Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, the Australian synth-pop duo

Added: 27/10/2016
6.4

Dolly Parton

Better Day

The forty first studio album from the country music legend

Added: 26/07/2011
6.4

Colleen Green

I Want to Grow Up

Third album from the LA indie popper

Added: 24/02/2015
6.4

Belly

Dove

Third album from the Newport, Rhode Island alt-rock band comes twenty three years after reforming in 2016

Added: 07/05/2018
6.4

Beirut

March Of The Zapotec/Holland

Double EP of Eastern European gypsy-flavoured folk/pop hybrid from New Mexican experimentalists

Added: 05/02/2009
6.4

Basement Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest

Basement Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest

A reinterpretation of songs from the London-based house duo by the Dutch orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley

Added: 11/07/2011
6.4

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters

Underrated Silence

The German ambient electronic specialist in collaboration with his former colleague in shoegaze band Engineers

Added: 19/02/2012
6.4

Zomby

Ultra

Fourth full-length album of jungle/dubstep from the electronic producer, featuring collaborations with Burial, Darkstar and others

Added: 31/08/2016
6.4

Tyondai Braxton

Hive1

Third solo album of experimental electronica from the ex-Battles frontman

Added: 08/05/2015
6.4

Swim Deep

Where The Heaven Are We

The Birmingham quartet with a debut album of summery indie rock

Added: 24/07/2013
6.4

Planningtorock

All Love's Legal

Berlin-based Jam Rostron (formerly Janine from Bolton) tackles gender and equality issues against an experimental house backdrop on her 3rd album

Added: 13/02/2014
6.4

Pinback

Information Retrieved

Album No.6 from the California indie pop band led by Zach Smith and Rob Crow, their first release in five years

Added: 15/11/2012
6.4

Nicki Minaj

Pink Friday

Debut album of rap and pop from the MC from Queens, New York, following up the hype from her early mixtapes

Added: 22/11/2010
6.4

Gauntlet Hair

Gauntlet Hair

Debut album of reverb soaked lo-fi indie pop from the Lafayette, Colorado duo

Added: 18/10/2011
6.4

Concrete Knives

Be Your Own King

Debut album of pop rock from the French five piece famed for their energetic live shows

Added: 18/02/2013
6.4

Catfish and the Bottlemen

The Ride

Second studio album of pop rock from the Welsh quartet

Added: 27/05/2016

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Virgin by Lorde

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Frankie CosmosDifferent Talking
"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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"It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition" (9/10 - Far Out). "An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable" (9/10 - XS Noize)

HaimI quit
"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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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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Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.

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