Picton's new band is back with a new single and it's fun, exciting and incredibly well-performed.

With their debut now on the horizon, I really hope they can keep this quality up for the duration of an album.

A beautiful little EP. Sarah's vocals on here are absolutely beautiful. I really think the best moments here were the piano ballads. They were simply gorgeous.

If you removed the last third of this album, you'd be left with one of the greatest electropop albums of all time. Unfortunately, the last third of the album is still here and it's not very good and very much lets this album down.

Whilst the instrumentation and production of this album dares to take risks are really helps to provide a unique listening experience to this album, I do think there are a couple of tracks here – especially in the middle of the album – that just come across as a bit generic from a songwriting stance. When you take away the lush strings and fantastic mixing/vocal production, and strip the song back to its key elements, there isn't much going on.
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Super hard-hitting industrial techno. It's explosive, captivating and catchy. From start to end, you're slammed with high-tempo, distorted hardcore bangers with little time to take a breath between one track and the next. Production throughout is great, though I do think the vocals could be a bit clearer.

This album really reminds me of other big artists in the alt-pop sphere: Charli, twigs, and more.

And whilst SASSY 009 doesn't push the boundaries as much as these artists, it's pretty good going to get compared to them on your debut. There are some big glimpses into her own potential in several of this album's highlights.

A quality debut. Spings clearly has the talent here, exploring a wide range of synthpop sounds, both retro-sounding and modern. There are some superb earworms here.
I think the only next step for her is polishing some of the minor inconsistencies. I also think the mix is just a little overpolished and overcompressed. Not to the point where it sounds horrendous or anything. It's just not quite perfect

Maybe not quite as consistent as previous releases, and I think the mixing isn't as good as their debut, but Nails' third album might be their most exploratory album to date, with an absolutely monolithic final track.

Meh. When 2 of the most exciting acts in modern EDM collab on a track together, you'd expect it to be more exciting than this.

It's louder. It's faster. It's unrelenting.

Nails' second album might not be as memorable as their debut, with riffs that aren't quite as catchy, but man is this still superb.

Some of the heaviest shit I've ever heard and yet, where other grindcore albums have failed to captivate me, this is absolutely amazing. I think it helps that this album actually sounds amazing as well.

A Collab I wasn't expecting but absolutely works. It's just so heavy it's funny.

Whilst there are a number of tracks here that overstay their welcome, it's worth acknowledging how bloody good the hits are on this album. Absolute peak disco.

Quality song. The production is a smidge too polished for my liking.

Whilst not the most polished or unique in its genre, "Aguas Raras" is a short, but quality LP with plenty of jazz-rock goodness. It's like if a Spanish version of Scott Walker decided to do a collab album with Geordie Greep and I think that combo works pretty well.

Save for a slightly rocky start, Mandy, Indiana's sophomore album is a hard-hitting barrage of high quality electro-industrial bangers that sound immense. There's some great moments throughout, but it's really the second half that stands out to me.

Whilst not quite as polished as previous albums, Alice In Chains' self-titled album bears the band's name for a reason, because it's their most personal and rawest album. There's something slightly eerie about hearing a man sing sombrely about the addiction that will eventually take the life of him and his fellow band mate.

DSM are back with another consistent, high-quality psychedelic rock album, complete with crazy good songwriting, killer guitar solos, and plenty of variation throughout to keep the album feeling fresh with each song.

Plantoid's second album takes the band in a slightly more mature direction, losing the rawness and raunchiness of their debut in favour of a sometimes more reserved, but overall more polished sound. It's almost like you got Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead and asked her to join a prog rock band.

One of the greatest acoustic rock albums of all time. There's not a single skip and 'Nutshell' in particular sits as one of the greatest songs ever committed to tape.