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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

Titus Andronicus

The Monitor

Second album of racuous indie noise and punk from the New Jersey outfit

Added: 03/03/2010
7.6

Tinariwen

Tassili

Fifth album from Mali based band featuring contributions from TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Wilco's Nels Cline

Added: 16/08/2011
7.6

Tierra Whack

World Wide Whack

Debut studio album from the Philadelphia rapper following her 2018 mixtape

Added: 18/03/2024
7.6

Thundercat

The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam

Mini-album from the LA-based bass player Stephen Bruner who's worked recently with Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington

Added: 29/06/2015
7.6

The Staves

Dead & Born & Grown

Debut album from the English folk rock trio of sisters produced by Glyn and Ethan Johns

Added: 10/11/2012
7.6

The Soft Pink Truth

Why Do Heathen Rage?

Third release - an album of black metal covers - from Drew Daniel who is one-half of Baltimore experimental electronica duo Matmos

Added: 20/06/2014
7.6

The Lemon Twigs

A Dream Is All We Know

Fifth full-length release of psychedelic pop from the Long Island, New York brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario

Added: 01/05/2024
7.6

Taylor Swift

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Third in the series of re-recordings from the American pop star includes six tracks written for the original album (2010) but not included previously

Added: 08/07/2023
7.6

Steve Mason

About The Light

Fourth solo album from the ex Beta Band frontman

Added: 17/01/2019
7.6

Sparks

MAD!

Album number twentysix from the Los Angeles synth pop / art rock duo Ron and Russell Mael

Added: 23/05/2025
7.6

Skepta

Ignorance Is Bliss

Fifth album from the London grime artist, and follow up to the Mercury Prize-winning Konnichiwa

Added: 31/05/2019
7.6

Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express

Junun

Collaboration between the Israeli composer and Radiohead guitarist, recorded in India and featuring a local qawwali group, to be accompanied by a Paul Thomas Anderson documentary

Added: 20/11/2015
7.6

Sharon Van Etten

I Don't Want To Let You Down

An EP of extras from the Are We There sessions by the New York singer songwriter

Added: 04/06/2015
7.6

Richard Hawley

Standing At The Sky's Edge

The Sheffield singer-songwriter and guitarist takes a turns towards space rock and psychedelia on his 6th studio album

Added: 25/04/2012
7.6

Quasi

Breaking the Balls of History

First full-length album for ten years from the Portland, Oregon indie rock duo Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss

Added: 09/02/2023
7.6

Public Enemy

What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?

Fourteenth studio album from the veteran New York hip-hop outfit includes guest appearances from George Clinton, Ice-T, Run-DMC and many more

Added: 25/09/2020
7.6

PS I Love You

Death Dreams

This Canadian noise rock duo follow up their well received 2010 debut, Meet Me At The Muster Station

Added: 08/05/2012
7.6

Polar Bear

Same As You

Sixth LP from the London-based experimental jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford

Added: 26/03/2015
7.6

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Death Hilarious

Fifth full-length album from the Newcastle sludge-rock band featuring a guest appearance from Run The Jewels' El-P

Added: 03/04/2025
7.6

Night Beds

Country Sleep

Debut album from Nashville-based indie folk band fronted by singer-songwriter Winston Yellen

Added: 06/02/2013
7.6

Nicolas Jaar

Sirens

Second album of experimental house from the Chilean-American composer

Added: 06/10/2016
7.6

Nick Lowe

The Old Magic

Album number thirteen for the veteran singer-songwriter and key figure in early UK pub rock and new wave scene

Added: 05/09/2011
7.6

Nadia Reid

Preservation

Second album from the Auckland, New Zealand indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 01/03/2017
7.6

Mount Kimbie

The Sunset Violent

Fourth album from London-based electronic quartet featuring two tracks by King Krule is their first indie rock release

Added: 05/04/2024
7.6

Mothers

When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired

Debut album from the Athens, Georgia indie rock quartet formed by Kristine Leschper

Added: 25/02/2016
7.6

Meshell Ndegeocello

Ventriloquism

Album number twelve from the US rapper and bassist features covers of 80s and 90s R&B and nu-soul tracks

Added: 16/03/2018
7.6

Lucinda Williams

Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart

Fifteenth studio album from the Grammy award-winning Americana legend

Added: 30/06/2023
7.6

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet

Landfall

First collaboration between the experimental performance artist and the San Francisco string quartet is inspired by Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy

Added: 16/02/2018
7.6

Lapalux

Ruinism

Third studio album of downtempo, glitchy electronica from Essex-born Stuart Howard

Added: 29/06/2017
7.6

Kadhja Bonet

Childqueen

Self-produced second album of R&B / soul / jazz from the Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist

Added: 07/06/2018

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