In both rhythm and spirit, Yowzers is slippery and free. Yet where the record coalesces into songs, it tends to speak the raw, direct language of soul music and the blues. [Aug 2025, p.36]

With echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and Gram Parsons at times, it all feels deceptively effortless. [Aug 2025, p.39]

Thoughtful sixth album, which sees the songwriter wrestle with the growing challenges of life as she enters her early thirties. [Jul 2025, p,27]

They lurch with satisfying abandon through funereal Slint-like post-rock to unashamedly slovenly pixies-ish riffs to splenetic blasts of screaming hardcore and staccato math-rock scrapes, as Zak Bowker intermittently makes his strangled screams heard above the maelstrom. [Jun 2025, p.41]

The musicians' off-the-cuff interaction animates cartoonish songs like the boisterous "Burgundy Suit" and the woozy "Sharktooth", but Mccaughey's flights of fancy occasionally tumble into relatable coherence. [Jun 2025, p.35]

Eight tracks range from menacing, acid rain drone to jagged rhythmic gut-punches. Here they summon the raw energy of The Young Gods in their prime, hobbling through grey ruined cities that have dominated our news-screens in recent times. [Jul 2025, p.33]

Pramuk takes listeners on a rich inner-space odyssey. [Aug 2025, p.37]

The result is a rich, expansive yet considered album of indie rock meets shoegaze. [Aug 2025, p.32]

I Quit is at its best when the trio juice up old tactics with a jolt of the new. [Aug 2025, p.31]

Revelatory. .... The set offers great insight into Springsteen's creative process. [Aug 2025, p.50]

Field recordings, ASMR, personal effects and various metals combine to conjure some magical moments. [Jul 2025, p.31]

A bumpy ride overall, but rewarding. [Jul 2025, p.37]

American Romance is agreeably heart-on-sleeve. [Jul 2025, p.31]

Classy debut. .... Leaves you in no doubt who carries a great deal of weight in Ride. [Jul 2025, p.33]

Lucy Gooch's early life as a chorister feeds into Desert Window's beauteous soundscapes, looping her gentle soprano voice over gauzy layers of synths in a seamless shift of classical ambient, jazz and dream-folk textures. [Jul 2025, p.28]

Every bit as special as promised. [Jul 2025, p.29]

Their fourth album is authentic in the resistant lyrics of Yildirim originals. [May 2025, p.39]

An album that is as genuinely moving as it is pulsing and hypnotic. [Jul 2025, p.37]

Wolfe's voice prominent on the shimmering "Hopelessly At Ease" and tremolo-bathed "Shhh", recalling Julee Cruise;s otherworldly work. .... Elsewhere, there's an edge. [Jul 2025, p.27]

This LP is accordingly freeform and exultant. [Jul 2025, p.29]

Take “Breakfast On The Train”, among the most involving songs this storied chronicler of the heart has ever penned. .... The other seven tracks on this self-contained album are no slouches either. [Jun 2025, p.32]

There are rum choices (Ex-Easter Island Head, Craven Faults), generic pumpers (Sally C, Shanti Celeste, Daybreakers) and moody mates (Mogwai, The Twilight Sad, Deftones' Chino Moreno), while surprising highlights include Daniel Avery's "Drone:Nodrone" widescreen prowler. [Jul 2025, p.26]

An ambitious collaborative affair showcasing female and non-binary musicians. [Jun 2025, p.33]

The covers from less celebrated acts support the premise most intriguingly. [Jul 2025, p.49]

Its heady and timeless distillation of dub gospel, disco excursions, molten psych rock and soulful swagger sounds more like back to the future. [Jul 2025, p.37]

Resulting in a most welcome return for this singular artist. [Jun 2025, p.42]

Eight lively compositions that strike a sometimes uneasy balance between structural rigour and woolier, woozier inclinations. [Jul 2025, p.29]

Talkin To The Trees finds Young largely preoccupied with matters closer to home. “Family Life” begins as an open-hearted acoustic address to his children – until a jarring reference to his grandchildren, “who I can’t see”. He follows this with “Dark Mirage”, a glowering ball of knotted noise. .... The mood shifts with “First Fire Of Winter”, a hymn to domestic happiness in Colorado with Daryl Hannah and the first of three gorgeous country tracks on the album. [Jul 2025, p.28]