28 July 2017
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Alice Cooper Paranormal
Tremendous fun throughout. Print edition only Mojo
The Fall New Facts Emerge
Smith doesn’t have to prove anything. Really, I’m just glad he’s still out there, still doing the work. The work sounds terrible, but I’m still comforted that it exists A.V. Club
This is no return to form, but it has its merits. Thing is, we’d rather The Fall kept making average records than not existing at all Loud And Quiet
Repetitive, discordant, and utterly bizarre The Arts Desk
New Facts Emerge is one of the best things Smith has put his name too in a decade, the most complete and satisfyingly bonkers Fall album since 2008’s Imperial Wax Solvent Drowned In Sound
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile To The Surface
An artistic triumph, the kind worth regarding as a creative masterwork among their collection Exclaim
Arcade Fire Everything Now
It’s a compositional mess, somehow both gratuitously moralising and morally repugnant, duller than watching already-dry paint, and I don’t want to waste another word on it The 405
Absolutely class God Is In The TV
The two gems on this release are the two songs written with Cooper's original 1970s band Under The Radar
Coldplay Kaleidoscope EP
Goes down as easy as Sunday brunch with a cool uncle Rolling Stone
Alice returns to give his theatrical stylings an alt-rock make-over The Arts Desk
Alice Cooper knows what he does well, and sees no reason, on this evidence, to change The Independent
There's a treasure trove of blues rock to be lapped up here The Music
Sharpen up the guillotine, folks; he ain’t done yet Paste Magazine
It may not be a no-hitter (nothing here is as immediately visceral as, say, “Shake It Off” or as instantly gorgeous as “Simple Math,” perhaps), but the band still looks and sounds strong Paste Magazine
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past eight years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me