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The Car (album)

The Car (2022) is Arctic Monkeys' seventh studio album, released 21 October 2022 on Domino; written by Alex Turner, produced by James Ford, recorded at Butley Priory, La Frette, and RAK Studios; a strings-led follow-up to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino that peaked at UK number 2.

The Center Won't Hold

The Center Won't Hold (2019) is Sleater-Kinney's ninth album, produced by St. Vincent on Mom + Pop Music, and the last with drummer Janet Weiss, who left in July 2019; it scored 80 on Metacritic.

The Clearing (Wolf Alice album)

The Clearing is the fourth studio album by English rock band Wolf Alice, released 22 August 2025 on Columbia Records. Written in Seven Sisters, recorded in Los Angeles with Greg Kurstin, it is their first major-label album, nominated for the 2025 Mercury Prize.

The Crux (Djo album)

The Crux is the third studio album by Djo, Joe Keery's musical project, released April 4, 2025 on AWAL. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios with Adam Thein, it is a 12-track hotel-concept record blending 1960s-70s psychedelic rock with indie pop, later nominated for a Grammy for Best Album Cover.

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is Alice in Chains' fifth studio album, released May 28, 2013 on Capitol; second with William DuVall, produced by Nick Raskulinecz, debuted No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 62,000 first-week copies; title mocks the creationist claim that Satan planted dinosaur fossils.

The Fall (Gorillaz album)

The Fall is Gorillaz's fourth studio album, recorded by Damon Albarn largely on an iPad over 32 days of the 2010 US Plastic Beach tour, released free to fan club members on 25 December 2010 and commercially in April 2011.

The Forest Is the Path

The Forest Is the Path is Snow Patrol's eighth studio album, released 13 September 2024 via Polydor, their first album in six years and first as a trio, produced by Fraser T. Smith and a UK number 1.

The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers album)

The Getaway (2016), Red Hot Chili Peppers' eleventh studio album on Warner Bros., produced by Danger Mouse and mixed by Nigel Godrich, their first without Rick Rubin since 1989 and last with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

The Great Escape (Blur album)

The Great Escape is Blur's fourth studio album, released 11 September 1995 on Food Records. It debuted at UK number 1, went triple platinum, and its single Country House beat Oasis' Roll With It in the 1995 Battle of Britpop.

The Holy Bible (album)

The Holy Bible is a 1994 album by the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, its third studio album and the last featuring lyricist Richey James Edwards.

The Hope Six Demolition Project

The Hope Six Demolition Project is PJ Harvey's ninth studio album, released 15 April 2016 on Island. Written after travels to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC with Seamus Murphy, recorded publicly at Somerset House, it was her first UK number-one album and a 2017 Grammy nominee.

The Hour of Bewilderbeast

The Hour of Bewilderbeast is the Mercury Prize-winning 2000 debut album by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough): 18 tracks of lo-fi orchestral folk-pop on XL Recordings, UK chart peak number 13.

The Human Fear

The Human Fear is the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, released 10 January 2025 on Domino, produced with Mark Ralph, first with Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot, peaking at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart.

The Idler Wheel...

The Idler Wheel... is Fiona Apple's fourth studio album, released June 2012 on Clean Slate/Epic after a seven-year gap, co-produced with Charley Drayton, with found-sound percussion and a 23-word title.

The Invisible Band

The Invisible Band is Travis's third studio album, produced by Nigel Godrich, released June 2001. It topped the UK chart for four weeks, went 4x Platinum, and spawned the singles Sing, Side, and Flowers in the Window.

The Lion and the Cobra

The Lion and the Cobra (1987) is Sinéad O'Connor's debut album on Ensign/Chrysalis, titled from Psalm 91; nine tracks including Troy, Mandinka, and I Want Your (Hands on Me).

The Long Run (album)

The Long Run (1979) is the Eagles' sixth studio album and last before their 1980 breakup; produced by Bill Szymczyk over 18 months in Miami, a US number 1, 7x Platinum, with three Top 10 singles.

The Magic Whip

The Magic Whip (2015) is the eighth album by Britpop band Blur, its first in 12 years and first with guitarist Graham Coxon since 1999, built from spontaneous Hong Kong jam sessions and completed with producer Stephen Street.

The Mountain (पर्वत) (Gorillaz album)

The Mountain (पर्वत, Parvat) is Gorillaz's ninth studio album, released 27 February 2026 on Kong, its own label. Shaped by the deaths of Albarn and Hewlett's fathers and Indian travels, it features posthumous and living collaborators and a 2026 world tour.

The New Abnormal

The New Abnormal (2020) is The Strokes' sixth studio album, their first since 2013's Comedown Machine, produced by Rick Rubin at Shangri-La Studios, released on Cult/RCA with a Basquiat cover, and winner of the 2021 Grammy for Best Rock Album.

The Night the Zombies Came

The Night the Zombies Came is the Pixies' tenth studio album, released October 25, 2024 via BMG: 13 songs, first with bassist Emma Richardson, produced by Tom Dalgety, mixing Dust Bowl ballads and punk tracks.

The Now Now

The Now Now is the sixth studio album by Gorillaz, released June 29, 2018 on Parlophone/Warner Bros. Recorded in one month at Studio 13, London with James Ford, it reversed Humanz's guest-heavy approach with only Snoop Dogg, Jamie Principle, and George Benson as features.

The Photo Album

The Photo Album is the third studio album by Death Cab for Cutie, released October 9, 2001 on Barsuk Records, produced by Chris Walla, the band's first studio-recorded album, ten tracks including "Styrofoam Plates" and "A Movie Script Ending."

The Revenge of Alice Cooper

The Revenge of Alice Cooper (2025, earMUSIC) is the reunion album by the original Alice Cooper band, their first full studio album since 1973's Muscle of Love, produced by Bob Ezrin with a posthumous Glen Buxton guitar part and Robby Krieger guesting on Black Mamba.

The Rising (album)

The Rising (2002) is Bruce Springsteen's twelfth studio album and first with the E Street Band in 18 years, produced by Brendan O'Brien. A 15-song response to 9/11, it debuted at number one, went gold in a week, and won the Best Rock Album Grammy.

The River (Bruce Springsteen album)

The River (1980) is Bruce Springsteen's fifth album and first double, 20 songs on Columbia recorded at the Power Station from March 1979; his first Billboard 200 number one, led by Hungry Heart, later collected in The Ties That Bind box set.

The Scholars (album)

The Scholars is the 2025 studio album by Car Seat Headrest. The concept album is set at Parnassus University and follows students and faculty searching for meaning.

The Smiths (album)

The Smiths (1984) is the English band's debut album on Rough Trade, re-recorded by John Porter after Troy Tate sessions, peaking at No. 2 on the UK chart for 33 weeks, the year's best-selling indie album.

The Stone Roses (album)

The Stone Roses (1989) is the English band's debut album, produced by John Leckie, recorded at Battery, Rockfield, and The Manor studios, entered the UK chart at No 32, and became the defining Madchester record.

The Story of the Ghost

The Story of the Ghost, Phish's seventh studio album (Elektra, October 27, 1998), produced by Andy Wallace from jam sessions at Bearsville Studios and a Vermont farmhouse; a funky, dreamy 14-track set reissued on vinyl in 2019.