Crashes about with a wonderfully unpredictable joie de vivre. [Jul 2026, p.82]

They deliver this double album with such commitment, such intense attention to psychedelic detail, that you are carried away on the swell of their ludicrous mission, manatees and all. [Jun 2026, p,85]

Grohl's feathery voice adapts to its surroundings, sounding fragile in the record's quietest moments and gaining a biting edge when the amplifiers are cranked, yet her sharp melodic instincts remain prominent throughout. [Jul 2026, p.89]

This album is steeped in Vile's love for his city. And it travels with class. [Jul 2026, p.85]

Deliver some great moments, such as More Bad Miles Of Road, a bare boned blues lit with flickery psych guitar. [Jun 2026, p.92]

Her deft, dexterous guitar creates a bewitching tapestry that ushers old traditions into the present. [Jul 2026, p.84]

Almost Waking wors as beautifully and sharply as flint on stone. [Jul 2026, p.86]

If this broadened palette [New Age/neo-soul hybrids, spiritual jazz and esoteric rap beats] helps her weighty texts go down easier, her edge and intensity remain intact. [Jul 2026, p.82]

The melodic gift and residual optimism ultimately carry the day aided by the canny ear for a guitar riff that characterised Wings. [Jul 2026, p.82]

By reconnecting with their past, The Coral have found the essence of who they are now - and it's pretty magical. [Jul 2026, p.84]

It's the oddly formless Thin Places, a floating reverie where the solidness of life has apparently been rubbed away, that best captures the mood of this deeply meditative record, intermittent electric-blue flashes of revelation glinting through the darkness. [Jul 2026, p.82]

A Great Day In Newcastle is a big compositional leap, boldly examining poverty, prison and crime via action-packed sonic fizz-bombs. [Apr 2026, p.91]

Some records are slow to endear themselves, and the there are records like Fenceline, the debut from Oakland housemates mildred, that have you moving in with them before the first songs ends. [Jun 2026, p.84]

Dreamily inventive. [Jul 2026, p.91]

Happy Today is jazz at its most exploratory, unbounded form. [Jul 2026, p.89]

Falling Both Ways blends echo-laden percussion and threatening vocals like OutKast, while Pirate Radio owes more than titular similarity to This Is Radio Clash. .... Where does he go next? Wherever he wants. [Jul 2026, p.89]

Meticulous, inventive record. [Jul 2026, p.86]

Altogether, Little Wide Open is a creative high water mark. [Jul 2026, p.86]

The high point is a take on Diane Warren's Sunlight To My soul featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir. [Jul 2026, p.91]

A Dirty Three, free-folk weirdness takes Sophie Harris's vocal theatrics somewhere darker. [Jul 2026, p.93]

The title track and Singularity speak of a trajectory where AI gives a final push to an already cannibalistic pop culture. But this thesis is spiced with joyous synthesis. [Jul 2026, p.91]

A ragged triumph. [Jul 2026, p.88]

The horny Dry Spell is typically smart storytelling, cheekily contemporary and as wittily candid as her hero John Prine, while Back On The Wagon is a credulous assertion of faith in an erring lover from an unreliable narrator. [Jul 2026, p.87]

She's still the bedsit heartbreak queen for pop fans of a certain age. [Jul 2026, p.83]

The brothers have recorded an album that goes to the heart of who they are. [Jul 2026, p.80]

Shrugging off the stones, flower girl persona of 2024's AM pop-heavy Chaos Angel, Miatreya Corso is a more modern proposal. [Jul 2026, p.83]

It doesn't always land, but the DJ Shadow-esque glitch-hop of Peak Again- with Low's Alan Sparhawk on vocals - reflect James's desire to conquer new territories. [Jun 2026, p.93]

More than half of these 10 crisp, vital songs derive from guitarists Pete Astor and Andy Strickland co-writing for the first time, applying decades of hard-earned wisdom and fresh vitality to quintessential designs. [Jun 2026, p.84]