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Christine and the Queens  Redcar les adorables toiles

Written almost entirely in French, the Parisian artist’s quietly imaginative new album pursues a sonic and lyrical interiority that doesn’t always translate to great pop Pitchfork

Stormzy  This Is What I Mean

The south Londoner’s contemplative third studio album features his most mellow and mature moments yet NME

Stormzy  This Is What I Mean

The 29-year-old has made an assured third album where he opens his heart and shares the spotlight The FT

Stormzy  This Is What I Mean

This is the star’s most downbeat, intimate collection Evening Standard

Stormzy  This Is What I Mean

Although much of the music is keyboard-based (with Dion Wardle delivering a relaxed elegance), the romance is heightened by unabashed swells of cello, flute, trumpet and a fantastic gospel choir The Independent

Stormzy  This Is What I Mean

The rapper is still capable of lyrical swagger, political insight and hugely entertaining flexes but his third LP is a musically subtle trawl through his romantic regrets The Guardian

Weyes Blood  And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

The best material has something of deconstructed country music about it The Arts Desk

Weyes Blood  And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

By creating an odd discrepancy between the sounds of one bygone era and the immediate problems of this one, Mering carves out a wide space for contemplation Albumism

Weyes Blood  And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

You can criticize it for not doing much to innovate on what Mering accomplished on Titanic Rising, but all that matters is that it’s every bit as elegantly crafted as its predecessor Spectrum Culture

Caitlin Rose  CAZIMI

CAZIMI arrives in a far different time than when its journey started, but it maintains Rose's proclivity for personal insight and memorable meditations Spectrum Culture

Weyes Blood  And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Produced like its predecessor alongside Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, lyrics are expressed by Natalie Mering’s invariably coherent harmonizing over her brand of ecclesiastical and arty piano folk, with touches of the cinematically unsettling God Is In The TV

Show Me The Body  Trouble The Water

Brooklyn-based hardcore band Show Me the Body strive to escape banality and preach for the sake of the outcasts on Trouble the Water PopMatters

BROCKHAMPTON  The Family

The purported final album from the chart-topping hip-hop collective chronicles their rise and accelerated decline through the lens of a mercurial Svengali A.V. Club

Nas  King's Disease III

Nas and Hit-Boy reunite to deliver some no-nonsense verses and beats, with an interesting mix of nostalgia and more contemporary sounds musicOMH

Nas  King's Disease III

Like the majority of this nostalgia-tinted effort, King’s Disease III finds Nas operating at his myth-making merriest Slant Magazine