Dream Nails are evolving with grace and wit, trading the splenetic feminist rants of their early career for more musically and emotionally nuanced terrain. [Mar 2026, p.81]

If your bag is relentless hectoring from five angry, tune averse firebrands, feel free to have at it. Doubtlessly great live, though. [Apr 2026, p.81]

Heady stuff. [Apr 2026, p.79]

This fourth album from them is special. [Apr 2026, p.79]

A Pound Of Feathers is not quite as immediate, then, as Happiness Bastards, but repeated listens pay off. Its relationship to that record is similar to the way recently re-released Amorica sits alongside The Southern Harmony. The Crowes’ blessed resurrection keeps rolling. [Apr 2026, p.74]

It's an assured slice of post-Loaf songcraft. [Apr 2026, p.81]

At 72 Gordon is still smarter, more experimental and more inventive than just about anyone else in the art-rock sphere. [Apr 2026, p.78]

Like all the best crate-dogging comps it also unearths a wealth of wonderful obscurities. [Apr 2026, p.87]

It's Tripp's devotion to short, snappy expression that lends this album mist character. [Apr 2026, p.77]

This time around it's less epic overload and more barebones, twitching drum machines and sparse, discordant guitars, [Apr 2026, p.76]

A record imagined in youth, realised in maturity and vibrating with the thrill of possibility. [Apr 2026, p.75]

It turns out these eternal survivors have gone out with neither a whimper nor a snarl. [Apr 2026, p.76]

Confirm[s] that not only is this one of Gorillaz's best albums, but also that there's plenty of life in this cartoon outfit yet. [Apr 2026, p.76]

If you don't like jazz, this is another Metheny album that might change your mind. [Apr 2026, p.81]

It might not be essential, but it's not without merit. [Apr 2026, p.80]

Oddly archaic yet thoroughly modern. Which is to say he still sounds pretty timeless. [Apr 2026, p.80]

It all makes for a varied, sophisticated and somewhat restrained listen, as the Wakefield trio's bawling attack is tempered to allow subtler flavours to seep through. [Apr 2026, p.75]

Diggle has done his old friend proud with the Buzzcocks' new normal. [Mar 2026, p.81]

Eric Bibb manages to steer his unique blend of blues and folk in fresh directions. [Mar 2026, p.79]

Their seventh album is clever, arch and compelling. [Mar 2026, p.79]

A few more enticing tunes within the mix might really elevate them to a higher plane. [Mar 2026, p.78]

There’s no denying the lustre and passion in these songs. A case in point is the blistering call-to-arms, preacher-man fire-and-brimstone sermon True Black. Elsewhere, Tumbleweeds leans towards a darker Ryan Adams or brooding Jason Isbell setting. [Mar 2026, p.79]

The hooks go off like petrol bombs too. [Mar 2026, p.79]

Inspired song choices, delivered with real passion. [Mar 2026, p.78]

Biley turns the controls a little more towards vintage soul on this eighth album. Her voice is still a formidable instrument. [Feb 2026, p.81]

James Hunter's scuffed, sepia-toned soul holler remains something to here on this latest release. [Feb 2026, p.81]

Sleaford Mods are still kicking ass with acerbic beauty. [Feb 2026, p.80]

There is enough fire-breathing mania and lusty exaltation on Live God to make it a reliably thorough document of the Bad Seeds in full autumnal glory. [Feb 2026, p.78]