14 August 2025
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Alison Goldfrapp Flux
All pleasant enough, but much like its predecessor, Flux suffers from too much frictionless filler and too few actual dancefloor bangers. Print edition only Uncut
Flux lacks a little of the old uncanny razzle dazzle, but there's no doubting the elegance of its execution or the expertise of its creator. Print edition only Mojo
It sounds immaculately like now and yesterday all at once. Print edition only Record Collector
She sings about heightened senses, about eroticising sound, about sublime glitterball moments The Arts Desk
On Flux, Alison Goldfrapp proves that the 'difficult second album' strikes even veteran industry icons, as solo outing number two floats in an elegant yet directionless orbit The Skinny
Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface The Line Of Best Fit
Incredibly safe pop music in an already oversaturated market Far Out
Ada Lea When I Paint My Masterpiece
Like an artist buying more paint, brushes, and canvasses, Levy goes on creating. It’s the process that’s important, and as spacious and enjoyable as the album is at its best moments, it primarily feels like a necessary step to reevaluate inspiration and impetus Beats Per Minute
Osees Abomination Revealed At Last
The album is not a defining entry in Osees’ vast discography, but a fierce reminder of their talent Northern Transmissions
Babymetal Metal Forth
METAL FORTH is a statement about metal as an aesthetic rife with individualism; “metal” is not a monolith, and what it is to be “metal” varies from country to country, language to language, band to band Paste Magazine
Ethel Cain Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You returns Cain to the epic storytelling trilogy she began to weave with Preacher’s Daughter, its narrative giving us a glimpse into the life of another tragic woman from the (fictional) Cain family Spectrum Culture
Like the preceding Osees records, Abomination Revealed at Last shows off a much leaner, grittier band than the one that spent the Obama era making psychedelic freak-out jams Spectrum Culture
Amaarae Black Star
Boundary-busting singer's latest is a masterclass in controlled hedonism Rolling Stone
The prolific garage-rock icon and his bandmates channel their exhaustion with the state of the world into trippy psych-rock and furious punk Pitchfork
Making mischief of one kind and another in a world gone wrong is what Osees do, and Abomination Revealed at Last is a solid rumpus The Line Of Best Fit
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"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)
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