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1 November 2025

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Anna Von HausswolffICONOCLASTS

"All of the different influences on Iconoclasts just blend so well and it never sounds messy" (9.4/10 - Sputnik). "A marriage of opposites: automaton-like discipline and total abandon" (8/10 - Slant)

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The Belair Lip BombsAgain

"Establishes them as a new great hope" (8/10 - NME). "For a band whose influences range from Queen to hardcore, it’s impressive how coherent it all sounds" (8/10 - Dork)

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CreeperSANGUIVORE II: MISTRESS OF DEATH

"Never a band to shy away from making their songs as huge as possible, their fourth record features some of their most monumental tracks to date" (8/10 - Clash)

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The Last Dinner PartyFrom The Pyre

"Insanely rich with ideas, hooks, smart artifice and real emotion, From The Pyre is a feast of giddy raptures" (10/10 - Record Collector). "Both thematically and sonically richer" (10/10 - DIY)

BrògealTuesday Paper Club

"2026 is there for Brogeal’s taking, they’re gonna be a lot of people’s new favourite band" (8/10 - God Is In The TV). "This is what it sounds like when a band get it right the first time" (10/10 - Dork)

Jay SomBelong

"With ‘Belong’ serving notice of Jay Som’s continued abilities" (8/10 - Clash). "Will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer" (8/10 - Exclaim"

IdlewildIdlewild

"The fact they are producing some of their best work seems almost absurd, and yet here we are" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Idlewild is no nostalgic LP—it’s the sound of a band rejuvenated" (10/10 - XS Noize)

WednesdayBleeds

"Karly Hartzman has delivered a record that’s lean, confrontational and lived-in" (10/10 - NME). "A monumental statement from one of the most exciting bands today" (9/10 - PopMatters)

Baxter DuryAllbarone

"It’s not often you’ll hear of an artist making the best work of their career by their eighth album" (10/10 - The Skinny). "This is a record that wants you to dance" (8/10 - Far Out)

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7.7

Jehnny Beth

To Love Is To Live

Debut solo album from the Savages front woman working with producer Flood (U2, PJ Harvey), Nine Inch Nails’ Atticus Ross, the xx’s Romy Madley Croft and her longtime partner Johnny Hostile

Added: 11/06/2020
7.7

FKA Twigs

CAPRISONGS

Third album of trip hop / alternative R&B from the London-based singer and dancer Tahliah Barnett is a mixtape featuring guest appearances from the Weeknd, Shygirl, Dystopia, Rema, Daniel Caesar, Jorja Smith and Unknown T

Added: 14/01/2022
7.7

Elton John and Leon Russell

The Union

Collaboration between two legendary singer-songwriters and pianists

Added: 21/10/2010
7.7

Dream Wife

Dream Wife

Debut album of angular indie-pop from the London-based trio

Added: 23/01/2018
7.7

Deafheaven

Infinite Granite

Fifth album from the San Francisco post-black metal outfit and first that's influenced more by shoegaze and alt rock with clean vocals

Added: 17/08/2021
7.7

British Sea Power

Let The Dancers Inherit The Party

Latest album from the Brighton-based indie rock sextet

Added: 30/03/2017
7.7

Wye Oak

Civilian

The Baltimore-based duo with their 3rd album of indie folk rock

Added: 04/03/2011
7.7

Wolves in the Throne Room

Celestial Lineage

Fourth studio album from the Washingtonian black metal band

Added: 23/09/2011
7.7

Wolf Parade

Cry Cry Cry

Fourth full-length studio album from the Montreal-based indie rock outfit, their first since a hiatus in 2011

Added: 05/10/2017
7.7

Weyes Blood

The Innocents

Second album of folk / electronica from ex-Jackie-O Motherfucker member Natalie Mering

Added: 22/10/2014
7.7

Westerman

Your Hero Is Not Dead

Debut full-length album from the London-based singer-songwriter Will Wsterman produced by Nathan “Bullion” Jenkins

Added: 04/06/2020
7.7

Vivian Girls

Memory

Fourth album from the Brooklyn indie pop trio after reforming following their 2014 split

Added: 20/09/2019
7.7

Tunng

Tunng Presents...Dead Club

Seventh full-length release from the London folktronica pioneers inspired by Max Porter’s novel Grief is The Thing with Feathers

Added: 09/11/2020
7.7

Tracyanne & Danny

Tracyanne & Danny

Debut collaboration between Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell and Crybaby's Danny Coughlan produced by Edwyn Collins

Added: 28/05/2018
7.7

The Spook School

Try to Be Hopeful

Second album from the Edinburgh-based indie pop act produced by Hookworms’ MJ

Added: 09/10/2015
7.7

The Spook School

Could It Be Different?

Third studio album from the Edinburgh-based indie pop punk quartet

Added: 24/01/2018
7.7

The New Eves

The New Eve Is Rising

Debut full-length album from the Brighton-based quartet co-produced with Joe Jones and Jack Ogborne

Added: 01/08/2025
7.7

The Moth & The Mirror

Honestly, This World

The Scottish band comprising occasional and previous members of Frightened Rabbit, Reindeer Section, Admiral Fallow and Arab Strap, with a debut album of post-punk and folk

Added: 29/11/2011
7.7

The Divine Comedy

Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Thirteenth studio album from the Northern Irish orchestral pop band fronted by Neil Hannon recorded at Abbey Road Studios

Added: 17/09/2025
7.7

Taken By Trees

East Of Eden

Eastern-accented indie pop / folk on the second album from former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman as Taken by Trees, recorded in Pakistan with local musicians

Added: 11/09/2009
7.7

Susanne Sundfør

The Silicone Veil

Fifth album of electro-folk from the Norwegian singer-songwriter

Added: 25/10/2012
7.7

Steve Lacy

Gemini Rights

Second from the producer/The Internet guitarist Steve Lacy featuring guest appearances from Internet bandmate Matt Martians

Added: 15/07/2022
7.7

Sheer Mag

Playing Favorites

Third album and first in five years from the Philadelphia rock five-piece featuring a guest appearance by Mdou Moctar

Added: 28/02/2024
7.7

Rufus Wainwright

Unfollow The Rules

Tenth album and first in eight years from the Canadian baroque pop singer-songwriter produced by Mitchell Froom (Suzanne Vega, Los Lobos)

Added: 08/07/2020
7.7

RP Boo

Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints

Second album from Kavain Space, one of the pioneers of the Chicago footwork dance sound

Added: 02/07/2015
7.7

Richard Thompson

13 Rivers

Seventeenth solo album from the veteran folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist is self-produced and recorded on analogue equipment

Added: 17/09/2018
7.7

Regina Spektor

Home, before and after

Eighth studio album from the Russian-born, New York-based singer-songwriter produced with John Congleton

Added: 24/06/2022
7.7

Plains

I Walked With You A Ways

Debut collaboration from Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson recorded in North Carolina and produced by Brad Cook

Added: 14/10/2022
7.7

Pile

You’re Better Than This

Fourth album from the New England indie rock band, and first to be made available in the UK

Added: 05/03/2015
7.7

Petite Noir

La Vie Est Belle/Life is Beautiful

Debut album of Afrobeat / synth-pop from Brussels-born, Cape Town-based Yannick Ilunga

Added: 11/09/2015

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