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Chanel Beads  Your Day Will Come

Shane Lavers’ second album with the same title renders standard pop songwriting into arcane, intoxicating configurations Paste Magazine

Muse  The Wow! Signal

Muse’s best album in twenty years. If you’ve been along for the ride all this time waiting for another classic Muse outing, then take a bow – this one’s for you Sputnik Music (staff)

Beth Orton  The Ground Above

It’s difficult not to admire the hard-won, determined positivity of Orton’s attitude, and in the end, it’s bound to win the listener’s heart Spectrum Culture

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

The hidden inner landscape of Montreal’s BIG|BRAVE, an overgrown piece of Eden soaked in quicksilver moonlight, has never felt closer than it does on their latest record Spectrum Culture

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

Though the turbulence threatens to shake some songs into their disparate doom-metal and shoegaze components, Wattie's alternately tremulous and ferocious vocals provide a centre that somehow holds. Print edition only Uncut

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

The Montreal experimental trio subtracts drums and enfolds itself within resonant, rumbling guitar tones that summon otherworldly emotion Pitchfork

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

With in grief or in hope, BIG|BRAVE blow their sound up nearly to the point of combustion, yet manage to stay balanced and at peace All Music

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

In transforming personal anguish into shared material, BIG|BRAVE provide listeners with a tangible reminder that grief will never belong to them alone, and make critical contact with a transcendent reality we can conceive of, even if it remains beyond full reach Exclaim

BIG I BRAVE  in grief or in hope

Masters of drone and nuance return with all-enveloping tenth album, a constant call to persevere and at times a daunting place to inhabit musicOMH

Olivia Rodrigo  You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

Rodrigo returns to the singular relationship framework of Sour, but with a more developed expressive and sonic language The Quietus

Muse  The Wow! Signal

This Teignmouth trio ran out of anything they had to say, musically and lyrically, long before their deepest slope into self-parody, 2022’s chart-topping Will Of The People The Will Of The People The Will Of The Will Of The… The Quietus

Beth Orton  The Ground Above

English singer-songwriter enjoys a rich and compelling second wind of creativity as she explores the corners of the human psyche musicOMH

Downtown Boys  Public Luxury

The hope on offer here is bruised and graceless (and maybe a bit daft here and there), which is exactly why it’s easy to believe. Mostly, though, Public Luxury is a record about a grandmother, about what she handed down, and about the stubborn idea that even a song can change the world God Is In The TV

Downtown Boys  Public Luxury

The fury running through these songs is mostly the joyous, exhilarating kind. Print edition only Uncut

Downtown Boys  Public Luxury

Nine years since their last album, the Providence punks return with another record dripping with righteous fury—and a punchier, newly polished sound to get the message across as clearly as possible Pitchfork