Short, impactful blast of dissonant electro-industrial music, with their trademark brand of deprecating experimental hip hop, noise pop and emo. Despite its brevity, Forget Your Own Face is a non-stop barrage of sonic punches, making it as taxing as it is rewarding. Just wished it was more than 20 minutes long

Best Tracks: ALL ... especially 'MONEY MAKES YOU STUPID' ...

Few Good Things is one of the most gorgeous hip hop albums you’re likely to hear this year, with magical blends of jazz rap, neo-soul and conscious hip hop. It’s a creative blend of organic beats with the much more pop-friendly trap beats of today

Despite being grossly long and somewhat one-note, Once Twice Melody is still immersive to the point which other bands can only aspire to reach. However, I seem to much prefer this record as grandiose background listening, as I don't find the songwriting consistently interesting or varied enough to retain my full attention for 84 minutes. Ultimately, they're still doing the same stuff which they've always done, just to an extreme length this time

Fave Tracks: idk... they're just all so similar, ... read more

Everything that Big Thief and Adrianne Lenker have been working towards comes together immaculately on the band's opus, an album whose quality refuses to dip below legendary for an astonishing 80 minutes. Twenty tracks, all delicately different, yet completely cohesive, and unbelievably short on filler moments. I don't think I've ever enjoyed an album of this country/americana ilk as much as this one - what a behemoth

Aurora hits strong ethereal form on her fourth album, successfully blending mainstream synth-pop with indie folk and dream pop to birth a largely enjoyable LP. Though it could easily be slimmed down a few tracks, The Gods We Can Touch has enough highlights to transport you to a breezier plane of existence

Despite an ambitious instrumental palette and a balanced variety of clean and troubled vocals, Foxtails fall short of being consistently engaging, with their meandering instrumentals becoming somewhat tiresome and reprised by the final leg

Best Tracks: 'ego death' , 'ataque de nervios' , 'bbq' , 'space orphan'

Yard Act craft their own identity on their excellent debut, with a witty blend of dance-punk, spoken word and art rock, much akin to Sleaford Mods (though much less crude). They might lack the certain level of lyrical incisiveness of the best punk bands, yet their messages remain clear, and the singer resonates a relatable working-mans charm, equally capable of reciting both bleak poetry and eccentric, constantly-evolving post-punk.

Best Tracks: 'The Overload' , 'Dead Horse' , 'Payday' , 'The ... read more

Mitchell struggles to support her world-weary lyrics with enough innovation to keep me wanting to return to the project, despite its oft-subtle beauty

Fave Tracks: 'Brooklyn Bridge' , 'Bright Star' , 'On Your Way (Felix Song)' , 'Watershed'

There's a couple of highlights here and there, but 'SICK!' comes nowhere near close to being as well-rounded as his other shorter projects (ie SRS). Unfortunately unfulfilling

The third instalment in Arca's 'KicK' series is one of her most brutal displays of abrasive electronic music to date, with an insatiable desire to keep inventing new sounds, textures, and sonic combinations. Like a skittish club night, Arca's music jumps from one sound to the next without any hesitation, often leaving you wondering just exactly where you are. It's equal parts exciting, exhilarating, and intimidating in its confounding structure - if there exists an album to sum up where ... read more

Idles sacrifice their immediate, raw punk sound, for a much more measured and adventurous style of post-punk, paired with left-turn introspection compared to their politically charged material of the past. Detailing the lows of drug addiction, this is perhaps their most conceptually tight record so far, which gives the Bristol band room to move down new paths without becoming totally disjointed. This is the most free they've ever sounded, with inspiration taken from all over the musical sphere: ... read more

Geese seem to take equal influence from the Strokes as from the Feelies, capable of both intricate instrumental interplay and well-structured indie rock. Solid and enjoyable rock record

Tori Amos' majestic imagination is at full force on the spellbinding 'Ocean to Ocean', inspired by the enchanting Cornish countryside and the beauty of the natural world - a beauty which disperses into every nook and cranny of the record. Finding a proper balance between pop rock bangers and artsier balladry is never an easy thing to do, yet alone get them coalesce within the same tracklist, but Amos makes such a task seem like a walk in the park. Equal parts Kate Bush and Joanna Newsom, with a ... read more

Though it's a definite improvement over his lacklustre and oft-meandering previous release, Parannoul and his collaborators are still yet to find an exciting way to fuse lo-fi shoegaze with post-rock. There are still far too many passages where the record seems to get stuck in the mud, and can't progress past its current fuzzy atmosphere - the best example of this is probably 'vento caminha comigo', an 8 and a half minute blackgaze bombardment which seeks to annihilate your senses, whilst in ... read more

Blue Bannisters is an overly-long, loosely-constructed, and near-totally forgettable rehashing of Lana’s past works. Plagued by too much balladry and too little variation, with some of Lana’s least passionate performances in a long time, her newest LP offers few refreshments after the first interlude. Ultimately, Blue Bannisters will just bore you - if you can even last the full 60 minutes without sticking a Joni Mitchell record on

ESCAPE ROOM is a commendably crazy blend of experimental hip-hop, punk, DnB and glitch, though one whose restless brainstorming of ideas does get somewhat tiresome over 60 minutes

With Coldplay albums, we should be used to receiving offensively bleached and sanitised music, packaged up in a glossy box, ready to be shipped straight to number one. Yet, I can't recall one of their albums being this downright awful in almost everything it attempts, all the way from concept through to execution. Aside from the anomalously great 'Coloratura', there's hardly another moment on here which even scrapes being 'good' - heck, I wouldn't have even known that Chris Martin's vision for ... read more

There's a collection of great songs being presented here, with bucketloads of transcendental DnB beats - imagine Kero Kero Bonito, but for the club. Though I'd have preferred to have heard some of the beats be expanded on for a bit longer than they were here - it's painfully obvious that the music is targeted towards the patience-deprived TikTok platform - 'to hell with it' is an 18 minute blast. A strong stepping stone for one of pop's fastest-rising stars

Despite some enjoyable promotional singles and moments of heartfelt vulnerability, James Blake's fifth record gets bogged down by its mind-bogglingly unfocused middle passage. Although the album starts and ends strongly, everything from tracks 3-8 feel as though they should be on a completely different compilation

Despite some teething problems which become apparent on the final leg of the album, Magdalena Bay's debut LP has enough highlights to justify the hype its unbelievably catchy singles generated