The heart and soul of The Album Club is the great music we pick for our members.

The albums are the work of all sorts of artists from all sorts of different musical backgrounds, but to earn a place in The Album Club they have to have a few things in common:

• to represent the best and most interesting music of today
• to be a little different from, and most often ahead of, the mainstream
• to satisfy demanding but open-minded music lovers

From Richard Hawley to Ray LaMontagne, from The Gossip to The Go! Team, from KT Tunstall to TV On The Radio, and from Arcade Fire to Antony & The Johnsons, we reckon we’ve had a pretty good strike rate of helping our members get into the hottest artists ahead of the pack.

Check for yourself some of the albums we’ve recently selected.

Click on a sleeve to hear a sample.