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Earl Sweatshirt / MIKE / Surf Gang  POMPEII // UTILITY

Historically, Earl and MIKE’s songs have been studies in contrast with oft-beautiful results. But their collaborative album doesn’t work that way. With flows set over glacial beats, almost every song is in the same color Paste Magazine

Soldiers Of Fortune  Early Risers

Two of this century’s coldest, most martyrial rap auteurs flex new muscles over a decent batch of ambient plugg beats Pitchfork

Earl Sweatshirt / MIKE / Surf Gang  POMPEII // UTILITY

Across 33 tracks, two kindred voices split destruction and reconstruction, fusing hazy soul with cold, industrial edge NME

Earl Sweatshirt / MIKE / Surf Gang  POMPEII // UTILITY

Earl’s post-Odd Future career swerved the mainstream to follow the path laid out by NYC underground rapper Mike, and their first double album lets both shine The Guardian

Earl Sweatshirt / MIKE / Surf Gang  POMPEII // UTILITY

By the end of MIKE’S POMPEII, the rapper has shown a range of styles, flows and cadences that perhaps doubters wouldn’t have thought he was capable of on SURF GANG productions. Sweatshirt’s UTILITY, whilst treading new production ground, still feels quintessentially him The Quietus

Thundercat  Distracted

Distracted works so well because it’s loaded with the contradictions of his personality (or perhaps his pop persona), both sonically and lyrically Spectrum Culture

Raye  This Music May Contain Hope

If you were in an ungenerous mood then you’d say it’s all a bit much. It’s not just the kitchen sink; it’s the whole house here. An assault of the senses in many ways. But if ever an artist deserved to choose to do whatever they wanted, it’s Raye God Is In The TV

Courtney Barnett  Creature of Habit

Tune out the negative voices and when moments of garden variety joy present themselves, recognize and relish them for the outsize gift they truly are Under The Radar

My New Band Believes  My New Band Believe

Fans will detect familiar ideas, though they’re expressed with a different vocabulary Slant Magazine

Wendy Eisenberg  Wendy Eisenberg

On a daring new album, the singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso examines happiness, love, and memory with a forensic curiosity Pitchfork

Wendy Eisenberg  Wendy Eisenberg

Eisenberg has crafted an intriguing and enjoyable album, its unconventional arrangements and phenomenal lyrics both ghostlike in their delicacy and bold in their willingness to push musical boundaries Under The Radar

Wendy Eisenberg  Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg channels the restless energy of their avant-garde work into something beautiful The Guardian

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

The veteran Canadian indie rockers survey the wreckage on their 10th album, contemplating the end of empire and the stubborn persistence of faith in stylish, somber, elegiac songs Pitchfork

Arlo Parks  Ambiguous Desire

Compared to her previous work, Ambiguous Desire is quite the left turn for Arlo Parks. However, it’s a left turn that takes her back into what drew people into her music in the first place Spectrum Culture

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Slayyyter’s album is packed with exertions that are sure to leave you breathless Slant Magazine