Cox’s naked sensitivity and inability to filter himself have been constants through the band’s career; on Fading Frontier, they ensure Deerhunter’s most accessible songs yet are also their most affecting.
In the world of Uptown Special, everyone’s on the A-list.
It’s this powerful nostalgia for their original selves ... that makes Anthems For Doomed Youth better than it really ought to be, as if the last decade hadn’t happened.
Something More Than Free is as close as he's yet come.
Ultimately, Chasing Yesterday is an assured second step on Noel Gallagher’s solo path – more sure-footed lyrically, while bearing a very becoming new-found musical spaciness.
In Colour really comes into its own when Jamie xx gets abstract and confounding; where his ability to conjure something wonderful from mosaic, non-linear paths is most evident.
This portrait of the artist might be a gloomy, oppressive one but it’s grimly fascinating nevertheless.
Star Wars confirms that Wilco now fully own a unique American noise wherein nothing is wholly traditional or wholly experimental.
It’s when everything begins to fan out like a peacock’s tail at the height of the courting season that you’re reminded just why Newsom is a 21st century oneoff.
For a collection with an eye on the setting sun and the slow decline, it’s a fine late flowering. If they’ve made it, finally, to the end, there’s nothing to regret here.
The singer’s reappearance in the post-Ferguson climate feels like nothing less than a superhero donning his cape. Black Messiah is an exquisite realisation of what D’Angelo does best.
No Cities To Love stares down its troubles, power and joy ultimately lying in the hands of the people who can write such songs.
Barnett doesn't quite equal this deadpan reportage but navigates similar terrain in charming style.
A tender, affecting album that, through its jumble of religious allusions, nature imagery, classical references, half-remembered visions and overwhelming sense of loss, has a simple message.
West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent.
These songs might inhabit unsteady mental states, but each component could have been places with tweezers and a jeweller's loupe.
To Pimp A Butterfly attempts to the tackle the issues of the day without recourse to blunt, shallow sloganeering.