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Ginkgo (album)

Ginkgo is the second studio album by British indie rock band Panchiko, released April 4, 2025 on Nettwerk; 13 tracks, 39 minutes, four pre-release singles including a billy woods feature, UK Independent Album Breakers Chart peak 17.

Girlfriends (album)

Girlfriends (album): 2009 self-titled one-man album by Jerry Joiner (Portland, Oregon), Midwest emo/math rock, cassette on Black With Sap Records BWS 07; distinct from the 2020 pop-punk girlfriends album by Travis Mills and Nick Gross.

Gish

Gish is the 1991 debut studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released May 28, 1991 on Caroline Records; produced by Butch Vig at Smart Studios, Madison, about 300,000 copies sold, reissued remastered in 2026.

Goo (album)

Goo (1990) is Sonic Youth's sixth studio album and first for Geffen's DGC, produced with Nick Sansano and Ron Saint Germain, with a Raymond Pettibon cover, the single Kool Thing, and the band's highest chart position.

Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Good News for People Who Love Bad News is Modest Mouse's fourth studio album (Epic, April 6, 2004), a platinum indie-rock breakthrough led by the single "Float On," with two 2005 Grammy nominations.

Gorillaz (album)

Gorillaz (2001), the self-titled debut album of Albarn and Hewlett's virtual band, blending hip hop, dub and lo-fi rock; UK #3, US #14, about seven million sold.

Grace (Jeff Buckley album)

Grace (1994) is Jeff Buckley's debut and only completed studio album, recorded at Bearsville Studios with producer Andy Wallace, featuring Hallelujah, Last Goodbye, and Lover, You Should've Come Over.

Grassroots (album)

Grassroots (album): second studio album by American rock band 311, released July 12, 1994 on Capricorn Records; 14 rap-rock, funk, and reggae tracks produced by Eddie Offord, distinct from albums of the same title by Pothead and Andrew Hill.

Guitar (Mac DeMarco album)

Guitar is Mac DeMarco's sixth studio album, released 22 August 2025 on Mac's Record Label. Written, recorded, mixed, and photographed by DeMarco himself at his Los Angeles home in two weeks, it is his first non-instrumental album since 2019's Here Comes the Cowboy, with 12 songs over 31 minutes.

Happenings (Kasabian album)

Happenings is Kasabian's eighth studio album, released 5 July 2024 on Columbia; co-produced by Serge Pizzorno and Mark Ralph, a 28-minute 10-song psychedelic pop record that became the band's seventh UK number-one album.

Happiness Bastards

Happiness Bastards is the Black Crowes' tenth studio album, released March 15, 2024 on Silver Arrow Records; first original album in 15 years, produced by Jay Joyce, featuring Lainey Wilson, Grammy-nominated for Best Rock Album.

Headlights (Alex G album)

Headlights is Alex G's tenth album and major-label debut, released July 18, 2025 on RCA Records, 12 songs co-produced with Jacob Portrait, a high-fidelity soft-rock meditation on fame scoring 83 on Metacritic.

Heart (Heart album)

Heart (1985) is Heart's self-titled Capitol Records album, their first Billboard 200 number one and 5x platinum, with four Top 10 singles including the US No. 1 "These Dreams", produced by Ron Nevison.

Heathen Chemistry

Heathen Chemistry, Oasis's fifth studio album released 1 July 2002, triple platinum in the UK and a No. 1 there; last album with drummer Alan White, first with a Liam-written single, Songbird.

Heaven or Las Vegas

Heaven or Las Vegas is Cocteau Twins' seventh album, released September 1990 on 4AD and Capitol, recorded at September Sound, London. Their most commercially successful LP, peaking at #7 in the UK, and ranked #1 dream pop album by Pitchfork.

Heavy Metal (album)

Heavy Metal (2024) is the debut solo album by Geese frontman Cameron Winter, released December 6, 2024 on Partisan Records. Despite the title it is not a metal album but a folk-soul singer-songwriter record produced by Loren Humphrey, partly recorded in Guitar Center stores.

Help!

Help! is the Beatles' fifth UK album and soundtrack to their second film, released 6 August 1965 on Parlophone (PMC 1255/PCS 3071), featuring the title track, Ticket to Ride, and Yesterday.

Henry's Dream

Henry's Dream (1992) is the seventh studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, produced by David Briggs. First album with Martyn Casey and Conway Savage; Cave disliked the production and remixed it; it seeded Murder Ballads.

Heroes Are Hard to Find

Heroes Are Hard to Find is Fleetwood Mac's ninth studio album, released September 13, 1974 on Reprise; the last with Bob Welch, first recorded in Los Angeles, peaking at No. 34 on the Billboard 200.

Hi Infidelity

Hi Infidelity is REO Speedwagon's ninth studio album (Epic, November 21, 1980), a Diamond-certified No. 1 Billboard album featuring "Keep On Loving You" and "Take It on the Run," the band's commercial breakthrough.

Hi, How Are You

Hi, How Are You (The Unfinished Album) is Daniel Johnston's 1983 self-released lo-fi cassette, recorded in San Marcos, Texas, with the Jeremiah the Innocent frog cover Kurt Cobain wore in 1992.

Hoist (album)

Hoist is Phish's fifth studio album, released on Elektra in March 1994. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Paul Fox, it featured guests Béla Fleck, Alison Krauss, Tower of Power, and Jonathan Frakes, and the single Down with Disease.

Hot Fuss

Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by American rock band The Killers, released in June 2004 on Island Records and featuring "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me."

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is Florence + the Machine's third studio album (2015, Island Records), produced by Markus Dravs. It hit No. 1 in the UK and US, sold over a million copies, and earned five Grammy nominations.

Hozier (album)

Hozier is the 2014 self-titled debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, released by Rubyworks/Columbia. Includes "Take Me to Church"; fastest-selling Irish album of 2014, No. 2 charting debut.

Human Touch

Human Touch is Bruce Springsteen's ninth studio album, released March 31, 1992 on Columbia alongside Lucky Town. His first album without the E Street Band, recorded with Roy Bittan, Jeff Porcaro, and Randy Jackson; title track hit number 16 in the US.

Humanz

Humanz is the fifth studio album by Gorillaz (Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett), released 28 April 2017 on Parlophone; a guest-heavy "party for the end of the world" responding to Trump's election, charting at No. 2 in the US and UK.

Humbug (album)

Humbug, Arctic Monkeys' third studio album (August 2009, Domino), co-produced by Josh Homme and James Ford, recorded at Rancho de la Luna in the Joshua Tree desert, a darker, slower desert-rock turn that reached UK number one.

Hurley (album)

Hurley is Weezer's eighth studio album, released September 14, 2010 on Epitaph Records, titled after Jorge Garcia's Lost character, with lead single "Memories" and a Metacritic score of 68.

Hymns (Bloc Party album)

Hymns is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Bloc Party, released in January 2016 and recorded by Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, and session drummer Alex Thomas.