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Sunn O)))  Sunn O)))

At over an hour, it’s not casual listening. But SUNN O))) have always been about testing limits, pushing boundaries, (destroying speakers). That’s precisely why the album works and why the band have endured: ‘SUNN O)))’ feels like a reaffirmation — of process, of power, and of why they remain darlings of the underground Clash

Sunn O)))  Sunn O)))

The album is a magnificently heavy double of downtuned, epic riffing. Print edition only Uncut

Sunn O)))  Sunn O)))

The enrobed duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson have produced a beguiling work that distils the overwhelming impact of nature on the human psyche into 80 minutes of utterly transcendent avant metal The Quietus

Thundercat  Distracted

Thundercat invites listeners into a space where confusion, beauty, and pain coexist, reminding us that even in a fractured world, there is still room to feel, create, and live fully Northern Transmissions

Thundercat  Distracted

The American musician serves up audio comfort food with some stylistic progression and a generous helping of technical skill musicOMH

Thundercat  Distracted

He's still finding joy inside the pain, supplying the high notes with that ethereal contratenor and the low end with those sinuous basslines All Music

Thundercat  Distracted

Thundercat has finally made the all-out pop album he's been hinting at. It fits like a glove. Print edition only Mojo

Thundercat  Distracted

Distracted may be his most coherent album to date. Less prone to abrupt zigzags than its predecessors, it's his smoothest, too. Print edition only Uncut

Arlo Parks  Ambiguous Desire

This blissfully atmospheric album opts for the polished beauty of the chillout room, where it makes a fine soundtrack to dancing away heartache musicOMH

Sunn O)))  Sunn O)))

Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's vast primordial compositions all but dissolve structure, leaving the evocation of feeling to celebrate a communion of man and the natural world musicOMH

Courtney Barnett  Creature of Habit

Another respectable entry in her increasingly understated and overlooked discography No Ripcord

Robyn  Sexistential

Sees the Swedish megastar revisiting the sonic terrain of her 2010 classic, Body Talk, while simultaneously interweaving a more sexualised element No Ripcord

The Orielles  Only You Left

The Orielles’ artful touches are easy to get lost in No Ripcord

Snail Mail  Ricochet

The tragedy of Ricochet is that it follows such a feeble side A, which has the effect of making the whole affair feel like a greater disappointment than it actually is No Ripcord

Shabaka  Of The Earth

There is no genre that Shabaka cannot touch, but for such a conceptually minded artist, his commitment to changing things up for the sake of it provides scattershot results No Ripcord