8 May 2025
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William Tyler Time Indefinite
Time Indefinite vibrates with a bereft privacy and an isolation so intense it becomes claustrophobic Spectrum Culture
Time Indefinite is not for the start of a road trip, but maybe for the moment that road trip flops and you’re driving at night, alone. That, or headphones on, reading a sci-fi classic. It’s a total surprise and maybe only the future can judge it Northern Transmissions
Somehow, he and producer Jake Davis have conjured an utterly compelling account of Tyler's lurching mental health. Print edition only Mojo
One of the most compelling albums Tyler has made. .... Time Indefinite seems to stare into the heart of what the country is tight now, in all its fragmented, polarised turmoil; the state of the nation in perfect sync with Tyler's own troubled state of mind. Print edition only Uncut
The Nashville guitarist’s latest album is an act of reckoning: Collaging together found sounds and field recordings with his own fingerpicking, it feels like an elegy for a nation in free fall Pitchfork
William Tyler offers a fresh and uniquely compelling way to affirm that it’s OK not to be OK: these are humbly majestic anthems for our anxious age The Line Of Best Fit
Though less immediate and accessible than his earlier work, Time Indefinite is another career highlight that pushes Tyler boldly into the futur All Music
Car Seat Headrest The Scholars
Toledo is young enough that it's premature to call The Scholars a masterpiece, though it's unquestionably his finest work to date and one of the best albums of 2025 All Music
Packed with musical and literary references, there's a lot to unpick, but tracks like "The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)" show the band still have a knack for pop hooks, albeit not as lo-fi as before. Print edition only Uncut
It's the jubilant reach and dynamite in the details that make The Scholars a rock opera worthy of the form. Print edition only Mojo
PUP Who Will Look After The Dogs?
Delivers a treasure trove of head-bobbing catharsis. Who Will Look After the Dogs is messy, brutal, and also strangely comforting; it’s an album that doesn’t clean up after itself and doesn’t need to Northern Transmissions
A mixture of driving punk energy, wry humour and moments of vulnerability The Arts Desk
Toronto band take on personal crisis with a sense of humor and loud guitars Rolling Stone
It’s all catharsis, set to an instrumentation that simply sounds like a really good rock show as they refused to overthink or overdo craft either and more than benefit from that no-brain, all-guts approach Far Out
There are no easy answers, just four friends muddling their way through life and trying to put words to what their feeling. It’s the crowning glory of their peerless five-album run Dork
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"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange