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5 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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7.6

The Magic Gang

Death of the Party

Second album from the Brighton-based indie rock quartet recorded in Atlanta and produced by Ben H Allen (Animal Collective, Kaiser Chiefs, Cut Copy)

Added: 28/08/2020
7.6

The Horrors

Primary Colours

Second album from London based garage rock five piece

Added: 28/04/2009
7.6

The Drums

Summertime!

Debut EP release of breezy indie rock and synthpop from the Brooklyn-based band

Added: 04/11/2009
7.6

The Cast Of Cheers

Family

Second album from Dublin indie rock quartet produced by Luke Smith (Foals, We Have Band)

Added: 14/08/2012
7.6

Tera Melos

X'ed Out

Fourth album from the Sacramento trio, combining math rock and offbeat pop-punk

Added: 13/05/2013
7.6

Superfood

Bambino

Second album from the Birmingham indie rock duo Dom Ganderton and Ryan Malcolm

Added: 19/09/2017
7.6

Saltland

A Common Truth

Second full-length album from Quebec-based cellist, vocalist, and composer Rebecca Foon's solo project featuring contributions from Warren Ellis

Added: 07/04/2017
7.6

Rolo Tomassi

Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

Fifth studio album from the Sheffield math rock five-piece

Added: 06/03/2018
7.6

Robyn Hitchcock

Shufflemania!

Twenty-third studio album and first in five years from the English singer-songwriter includes contributions from Johnny Marra and Sean Ono Lennon

Added: 28/10/2022
7.6

Robert Wyatt, Ros Stephen, Gilad Atzmon

For the Ghosts Within

The singer-songwriter in collaboration with violinist Ros Stephen and saxophonist Gilad Atzmon for a collection of covers and songs from his back catalogue

Added: 09/10/2010
7.6

Robbie Fulks

Gone Away Backward

The Chicago-based singer-songwriter returns to his folk and bluegrass roots for his first proper release in eight years

Added: 29/08/2013
7.6

Richard Thompson

Acoustic Classics II

A second collection of acoustic reworkings from the English folk singer

Added: 15/08/2017
7.6

Richard Hawley

Hollow Meadows

Seventh album of alternative indie pop from the Sheffield-born guitarist and vocalist

Added: 11/09/2015
7.6

Richard Fairhurst & John Taylor

Duets

Collaboration between contemporary jazz pianist Taylor (who died just before its release) and his former student Fairhurst

Added: 09/08/2015
7.6

Pusha T

My Name Is My Name

Debut solo album from the former member of much-admired rap duo The Clipse, with production credits to Pharrell Williams, Kanye West and others and contributions from Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown and more

Added: 08/10/2013
7.6

Peggy Seeger

First Farewell

Latest solo album from the NYC folk singer-songwriter with contributions from sons Calum and Neill MacColl and daughter-in-law Kate St John

Added: 14/04/2021
7.6

Peach Pit

From 2 To 3

Third album from the Vancouver indie pop quartet

Added: 10/03/2022
7.6

Paul Weller

Saturns Pattern

Twelfth studio album from the former Jam and Style Council front man is a more bluesy affair

Added: 12/05/2015
7.6

Owen Pallett

In Conflict

Fourth full-length from the Canadian violinist who scored the movie Her with frequent collaborators Arcade Fire. Also featuring Brian Eno

Added: 21/05/2014
7.6

Nick Lowe

Indoor Safari

Latest full-length release from British singer-songwriter features two new original songs

Added: 16/09/2024
7.6

New Order

Music Complete

Album number ten from the veteran electronic rock band is the first without Peter Hook and sees the return of Gillian Gilbert

Added: 21/09/2015
7.6

Miguel

Wildheart

Third album from the California R&B singer-songwriter and producer

Added: 29/06/2015
7.6

Miguel

War & Leisure

Fourth album from the California R&B singer-songwriter and producer

Added: 01/12/2017
7.6

Menomena

Mines

Fourth album from the Portland, Oregon indie rock trio

Added: 27/07/2010
7.6

Max Richter

Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works

The latest release from the classically trained German-born British composer is a score for the narrative dance piece Woolf Works

Added: 03/02/2017
7.6

Marconi Union

Different Colours

Album No.6 from the Manchester-based ambient electronica specialists

Added: 27/07/2012
7.6

Laufey

Everything I Know About Love

Debut album from the Los Angeles-based Icelandic-Chinese jazz-pop artist Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir

Added: 26/08/2022
7.6

KEN Mode

Entrench

Fifth album from the Canadian noise rock / post-hardcore trio

Added: 22/03/2013
7.6

Jordan Rakei

What We Call Life

Fourth full-length album from the London-based, New Zealand-born artist

Added: 24/09/2021
7.6

Jessy Lanza

All The Time

Third album of alternative synth pop from the Canadian electronic singer-songwriter produced with Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys

Added: 24/07/2020

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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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