At times a twirl into unoriginal indie adjacent styles, at others genuinely heart-breaking, all in all though a good time and a great progression from beabadoobee.

Favourite Song: Ever Seen

Best: Take A Bite, California, Real Man, Tie My Shoes, Girl Song, Beaches, This Is How It Went

Worst: The Man Who Left Too Soon

If you listen closely, you may find that this album is about cocaine.

Some kooky yet masterful Neptunes/Pharrell beats underlining a punchy gangsta rap pair.

Favourite Song: Wamp Wamp

Best: We Got It for Cheap, Momma I'm So Sorry, Mr. Me Too, Dirty Money, Keys Open Doors, Ain't Cha, Nightmares

Worst: Ride Around Shining

A tour de force of R&B hits, deep emotional dives and vibrant flourishes of sexuality.

Favourite Song: Velvet Rope

Best: Velvet Rope, You, Got 'Til It's Gone, My Need, Go Deep, Free Xone, Together Again, Empty, What About, Tonight's The Night, I Get Lonely, Rope Burn, Can't Be Stopped

Worst: Every Time

The children [me] yearn for 2000's Strokes and Bloc Party, because this post-punk revival we've been having recently is keeping the indie scene aggressively tame and conserved.

Fontaines hooked me in with Starburster and then drowned me with a sluggish album of introspection favoured over fun post punk revival-rooted Irish indie bangers. Some of the slow songs work on this because of nice build ups and production, but some are so meandering and pointless, and it clogs up the effort ... read more

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Travis Scott is giving the equivalent of a knighthood to Kanye West.

Travis' trap style is sprawled out and experimented on across several decent tracks and several middling ones, but the real kicker of UTOPIA is that for half of it it's like Scott isn't even there. I swear there were some songs where his vocals were heard for a fraction of a song's length which disengaged me a fair bit, and it doesn't help that the ... read more

This has got to be the best thing that France has ever produced other than cinema and Kylian Mbappé.

From Mars to Sirius has an insurmountable status within the progressive metal music scene, and when you take on the full scope of Gojira's created universe in this project it's so unbelievably easy to see why. It's enveloping and epic from start to finish, and unlike most other metal acts Gojira knows how to keep things versatile and differentiating without going too ... read more

Silent Alarm's EP precursor is the indie rock time capsule that warps you right back to the days of sleaze and Matt Tong's unbeatable drumming. The guy's an absolute machine.

Favourite Song: Little Thoughts

Best: Tulips (+ Minotaur Shock Remix), Skeleton

Worst: Storm and Stress

A one note thrill ride.

Favourite Song: REAL LIFE LOVE

Best: REAL LIFE LOVE, DON'T NEED, THE FIRST TEST

Worst: SEND THEM 2 SYDNEY

Going to go out on a limb and say that this new era of Peggy, starting from Scaring the Hoes and continuing with I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU, is bringing his best album works to date. Although he may have some stronger singles in the earlier JPEG works, these new LP's that he's been dropping have clicked way more with me than Veteran, Cornballs and LP! could. This little album of his is his most instrumentally diverse and sees Peggy in a flow state of creative juices, with more absurd ... read more

Taylor Swift's third studio album is an explosion of terminally online 2010's nostalgia mixed with extremely fun and bombastic electropop production. I do love the sentimentality that Porter brings to some of the songs, and I love that he knows when to ditch the emotions and make a sugary banger. I didn't resonate with this as much as with Nurture, but this album is meant to be way more fun, and it succeeds effortlessly on that front.

Now don't be shy Porter, if ... read more

Possibly Vince's most emotional work to date, but sometimes it gets too low key for its own good. Nonetheless still very enjoyable and ends up being one of his most realised albums.

Favourite Song: Black&Blue

Best: Government Cheese, Shame On The Devil, Étouffée, Nothing Matters, Little Homies

Worst: Children's Song

After well over a decade in the music scene and after five and a half album releases, the Childish Gambino project confirms that it can't decide what the hell it wants to be.

With the gift of hindsight through age, I can now look back upon one of the artists that got me into music with an eye of scepticism. It was clear from the start that Donald Glover had a level of talent, but that talent was always misfocused. From a corny but fun rap album to an untitled mess of anything and ... read more

A decent trap album from current hip hop's most popular producer, but it's largely soiled by Chris Brown's heinous verse on the otherwise best song on the album.

Fuck you Chris Brown.

Favourite Song: Superhero

Best: On Time, Too Many Nights, Umbrella, Trance, Around Me, Metro Spider, Creepin', Niagara Falls, Walk Em Down (Don't Kill Civilians), Feel The Fiyaaaah

Worst: All The Money

A vintage and dark glimpse at England's past, yet an insightful and rich glimpse into Harvey's future.

Favourite Song: Let England Shake

Best: The Last Living Rose, The Glorious Land, The Words That Maketh Murder, On Battleship Hill, England, In The Dark Places. Bitter Branches, Written on the Forehead

Worst: Hanging In The Wire

I love the concept that every song ever made has a number one fan, mainly because I love the idea of one guy who turns up to a party and puts on 'One Last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman' and loses his shit over the course of six seconds. Music is a beautiful thing.

Music really is a beautiful thing though.

There's something about this album, a certain magic behind it that propels it forwards. I know that they're turning this into a musical and honestly, I'm ... read more

Needs more vocal fries and random heavenly samples.

True Romance is a real oddity of 2010's pop, with some extremely clean and layered production that gives a spacey and infatuated yet dark personality to Charli's world. My gripes are with Charli's voice, which in her early career I never really liked much anyways so it's no surprise that I would stumble a bit in this department. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, it's a pure 50/50 throughout this thing ... read more

If there's a deranged fool out there who ever wanted the equivalent of a Kylie Minogue and Portishead collab album, you're going to wet yourself right now.

Though it's a tad dated in its 90's pop aesthetics, Impossible Princess is a great pop album which ends up being ultra bipolar in all of its styles and experiments, especially regarding its dives into trip hop. It's a massive experiment which works out fantastically, I think it just needed to cull one or two ... read more

A more under-appreciated slide of indie sleaze.

Favourite Song: It's Getting Boring By The Sea

Best: Doesn't Matter Much, You Bring Me Down, Say Something Say Anything, I Wish I Was Someone Better, Take The Weight, This Is Not For You,

Worst: Try Harder

A mashup that should be entirely unhinged, but actually works with an inaccurate brilliance (inaccurate in the sense that they don't really have a clear vision most of the time). Some stellar moments but oftentimes it appears as a trial run of concepts.

Favourite Song: Double Bind

Best: Quiet, Wrong Signal, Lullaby for a Memory, Scattersun,

Worst: Ascension

IDM? Yeah, how else do I message someone?

Favourite Song: Xtal

Best: Tha, Pulsewidth, Ageispolis, I, Green Calx, Heliosphan, Ptolemy, Delphium, Actium

Worst: Schottkey 7th Path