Adrianne Lenker's latest solo record Bright Future is raw, unvarnished, and painted in plentiful colour.
PHASOR is a rich and absorbing record that truly transports; placing the listener in a languid, half-lit morning where you’re never quite asleep and never fully awake.
Tracey Denim lives and thrives in the shadows of past greats, but is unable to escape them.
While opinions will certainly be divided on Let’s Start Here., it’s undeniable that a rapper hasn’t committed so impressively and effortlessly to a rock genre since Kid Cudi’s Nirvana-inspired Speeding Bullet to Heaven. If anyone was going to do something this unexpected it was going to be Yachty.
On the whole, CLEARING is a success but I can’t help but feel a number of the beats and instrumentals were throwaways from the PC officianados, like A.G. Cook and EASYFUN, while a lot of the SOPHIE cuts must have been sitting around for a while – though you can understand the desire to use them.
After stripping everything down on her ballad heavy Joanna, pop’s favourite kink, Lady Gaga, has returned to the electro-pop suite with Chromatica, a record no one could have expected even from someone who so full of surprises.
Uninhibited, focused and majestically crafted, she’s simply never sounded more vital.