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5 June 2025

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Matt BerningerGet Sunk

"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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GarbageLet All That We Imagine Be The Light

"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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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)

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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)

Julien Baker & TorresSend A Prayer My Way

"On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on" (9/10 - Slant). "A heart-bursting record that underlines the power of unity in a fractured world. A must-listen" (8/10 - Dork)

Bon IverSABLE, fABLE

"Soulful, almost spiritual in its delivery" (10/10 - DIY). "Marks a return to his fragile folk roots" (9/10 - musicOMH). "Revels in its sense of joy and collaboration" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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Pulp

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Album number eight and first in 23 years from the indie pop band formed in Sheffield in 1978

Added: 04/06/2025
9.0

yeule

Evangelic Girl Is A Gun

Fourth album of ambient / glitch pop from London-based, Singapore-born producer Nat Cmiel

Added: 30/05/2025
9.0

Tune-Yards

Better Dreaming

Sixth album of indie art-pop from Merrill Garbus working with long-time band-member Nate Brenner

Added: 15/05/2025
9.0

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke

Tall Tales

Debut collaboration between the electronic musician Pritchard and the Radiohead frontman

Added: 09/05/2025
9.0

billy woods

GOLLIWOG

Latest full-length release from the New York-based rapper featuring contributions from El-P, ELUCID, Shabaka Hutchings, Jeff Markey, Messiah Musik, Kenny Segal, The Alchemist and more

Added: 09/05/2025
9.0

William Tyler

Time Indefinite

Fifth album of instrumental guitar compositions from the Nashville-based former member of Lambchop and Silver Jews

Added: 01/05/2025
8.0

Kathryn Joseph

WE WERE MADE PREY.

Fourth album from the Inverness-born singer-songwriter co-produced with Lomond Campbell

Added: 29/05/2025
8.0

Alan Sparhawk

With Trampled by Turtles

Second full-length solo album from Low's founder is a collaboration with Trampled By Turtles and produced by Nat Harvie

Added: 29/05/2025
8.0

Garbage

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

Eighth studio album from the American-Scottish alt rockers influenced in part by singer Shirley Manson's hip replacement surgery

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

caroline

Caroline 2

Second full-length album from the London-based eight-member post-rock group

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

Smerz

Big City Life

Second studio album from the Norwegian electronic duo Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

Sparks

MAD!

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

Added: 22/05/2025
8.0

Stereolab

Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Eleventh album and first in fifteen years from the indie rock veterans

Added: 22/05/2025
8.0

These New Puritans

Crooked Wing

Fifth studio album from the arty post-rock outfit led by twins Jack & George Barnett

Added: 22/05/2025
8.0

Mclusky

The World Is Still Here and So Are We

Fourth studio album and first since 2004 from the Welsh post-hardcore trio

Added: 09/05/2025
8.0

Emma-Jean Thackray

Weirdo

Second full-length release from the Yorkshire-born London-based jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer

Added: 25/04/2025
8.0

Femi Kuti

Journey Through Life

Latest full-length release from the London-born, Lagos-raised saxophonist who is the oldest son of the late Afrobeat artist Fele Kuti

Added: 25/04/2025
7.0

Billy Nomates

Metalhorse

Third full-length album from the Leicester-born singer-songwriter Tor Maries

Added: 15/05/2025
7.0

Ezra Furman

Goodbye Small Head

Seventh solo album from the Chicago indie rock musician and singer-songwriter

Added: 13/05/2025
7.0

Model/Actriz

Pirouette

Second full-length album from the Brooklyn-based post-punk quartet was produced with Seth Manchester

Added: 02/05/2025
7.0

Blondshell

If You Asked for a Picture

Second full-length release from the Los Angeles-based indie rock musician Sabrina Teitelbaum

Added: 02/05/2025
7.0

Sunflower Bean

Mortal Primetime

Fourth album from the Brooklyn-based psych-pop trio Nick Kivlen, Julia Cumming and Jacob Faber

Added: 25/04/2025

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For the first time since Bangerz, Cyrus has moved her chameleonic talents out of the ordinary—embracing ad-libs, prog-rock eruptions, techno flair, and pop blowouts with abandon Paste Magazine

Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Rather than tackling new landscapes or new sonics on their first album in 15 years, Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier have opted to refine, diving deeper inside the interior world of their music Paste Magazine

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Fresh stuff

Instant Holograms On Metal Film by Stereolab

"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)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"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)

SparksMAD!
"By the time the closing track Lord Have Mercy comes around, you’ll be mentally reordering your list of top 10 all-time Mael brothers albums" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Pop classicists with a heart of gold" (8/10 - Clash)

Peter DohertyFelt Better Alive
"The sound of one of rock’s most enduring survivors exhaling and having fun" (7/10 -DIY). "Thoughtful, lyrically sharp songs stand as testament to a life transformed" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Billy NomatesMetalhorse
"Confessional yet cathartic, ‘Metalhorse’ is an emotionally resonant piece of work that is vital, vivid and showcases why Billy NoMates is an undisputed ‘Tor’ de force (9/10 - CLash)

Model/ActrizPirouette
"It dares you to experience desire, disgust, shame, and joy—all twirling together in a dizzying blur of lace and lights" (9.5/10 - Northern Transmission)

Arcade FirePink Elephant
"It leaves a shallow void where their spark once was" (5/10 - musicOMH). "It balances huge arena heft, synth throb and an ear-pleasingly smeary murk" (6/10 - The Arts Desk

Mark Pritchard and Thom YorkeTall Tales
"The Radiohead frontman and the esteemed electronic producer release a collaboration album. What it lacks in razzle-dazzle it makes up for with risky maneuvers" (7.6/10 - Pitchfork)

McluskyThe World Is Still Here and So Are We
"Scratchy guitar riffs and thunderous bass, all driven by pounding drums, suggest that the last 20 Mclusky-free years have just disappeared in a puff of smoke" (9/10 - musicOMH)

Car Seat HeadrestThe Scholars
"A cinematic exploration of maximalism that will appeal to any fan of rock operas" (10/10 - Spill). "The Seattle band returns with their best new album in almost a decade" (8.5/10 - Paste)

All-time top 10

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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