It could be a new studio album if it weren't for the cheers and hoots of the audience. [Jul 2026, p.101]

Fans of ATG's tremendously influential early albums will welcome the unforgiving tempos and the slick solos that gave the original music such audible contrast. [Jul 2026, p.92]

There's an underlying urgency to the elegance, this time. [Jul 2026, p.102]

In sweet-toned, self-sufficient sound and spirit, Philadelphia's Been Good To Me delivers deeper homefront dispatches: warming and deceptively wide-ranging tributes to his roots and the gifts - friends, family, music - they've given. [Jul 2026, p.100]

The band's 11th studio album feels crisp and revitalized. [Jul 2026, p.101]

This new offering is a more emotive and tighter take on that approach [on debut New Brigade]. [Jul 2026, p.101]

Inferno is, in the least-predictable, most ripe-for-discovery manner imaginable, more of the same. Across 18 tracks which run to exactly 70 minutes, the duo's sonic signature is gloriously intact. [Jul 2026, p.102]

They advance the concept that pop is a debilitating virus, injected non-consensually into our veins. Sometimes it's awfully (brilliantly) accurate. [Jul 2026, p.102]

Brock's determination to cram multiple styles into 15 tracks furnishes hangdog intrigues and knotty wisdoms aplenty. [Jul 2026, p.102]

An album of the year contender. [Jul 2026, p.102]

A fine set from a superlative group of musicians. [Jul 2026, p.102]

As a producer, Rostam knows modern pop flourishes, but this thrives on the simple pleasures. [Jul 2026, p.103]

Their latest Grand Guignol is a more direct and, dare we say it, tuneful affair than previous offerings, though Fantasia still hits you like a slab of concrete. [Jul 2026, p.103]

Childish albums arrive at a wild pace, too, but always manage an offhand brilliance. [Jul 2026, p.103]

The hour-long set veers from the 13-minute Countermovement to several three-minute single-like tracks such as the guitar-driven romp All Hands On Deck. [Jul 2026, p.103]

The full 22-track version (31 on digital) is notable mostly for the curio of four ragged, very early songs featuring future actor Rhys Ifans on vocals, with the rest balanced between the worthwhile and the completist. [Apr 2026, p.100]

It does the job in just over 25 minutes, ending on an oddity, the off-kilter jazz of Happy Families channeling Tom Waits. [Apr 2026, p.107]

Sutherland's fourth album of dependably solid Americana leaves its biggest impressions when the self-penned songs take on dramatic tones. [Jun 2026, p.103]

Possesses all the brimming feelings and melodies of her main gig. [Jun 2026, p.102]

Beauty Land has a surplus of his specialty: beautifully short, simple, sparse, bittersweet songs that seem impervious to the outside world, self-deprecatingly leaning into his personal struggles. [Jun 2026, p.102]

Excellent collaboration, a fully thought-through concept album. [Jun 2026, p.101]

If these nine ‘new’ songs plus a remake are to be the last of Neil’s stellar career, their release is justified. [Jun 2026, p.91]

Poppier but also more mature than before, Marmozets execute their frenetic, catchy punk with gusto and aplomb. [Jun 2026, p.102]

The Boys Of Dungeon Lane does everything a Paul McCartney album should do. The vulnerability in his voice adds a peculiar charm: it’s a man looking at an ever-decreasing road ahead with his trademark optimism.

It's an utter delight, an album that touches on all those influences [rocksteady, doo wop, soul, ska and 2-Tone] but still sounds like nothing but The Coral. [Jun 2026, p.101]

As it ends, you come away with the impression that O’Brien’s solo career has truly taken flight second time around. [Jun 2026, p.100]

Sometimes the album sparks the alt-country life as with the guitar crackle of Fish Sticks; sometimes it resembles incidents asides between buddies, as on the title-track. [Jun 2026, p.102]

The opening, high-octane title track gives way to more ruminative pieces. [May 2026, p.90]