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2 July 2025

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"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)

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"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)

Porcupine Tree

The Incident

Steven Wilson's longstanding prog rock outfit, back with their 10th studio album

ADM rating[?]: 6.5
Label: Roadrunner Records
UK Release date: 15/09/2009

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8.0 4434
8.0 | Rolling Stone

The action is rich in classicism — add King Crimson and early Genesis to Wilson's list of high standards, which all come with renewed life.
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7.0 4435
7.0 | PopMatters

For all his prog-rock and metal leanings, Steven Wilson knows that it all really comes down to the songwriting. And he is a very, very good songwriter
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7.0 6311
7.0 | Sputnik Music (staff)

...there is a little bit lacking in the song writing department that Porcupine Tree had mastered on previous albums
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6.0 | Q

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6.0 | Mojo

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