Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
A modern classic on par with the singer-songwriting greats
Gig Soup
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
A tribute to a figurative character, largely eschews percussion in favour of piercing words. It's a graceful ode to resilience
NME
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
Full of Californian haze, making for a gorgeously contemplative experience
The Arts Desk
The Strokes
The New Abnormal
The one-time anointed saviors of rock and roll experience their own resurrectio
Consequence Of Sound
The Strokes
The New Abnormal
The band seems happier and healthier together, while simultaneously pulling together their best set of songs in the past decade. Couple that with Rick Rubin’s cinematic production and you have the high point of the late-career Strokes records
Under The Radar
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
On her seventh outing Laura Marling offers both life lessons and much-needed escapism
The Line Of Best Fit
The Strokes
The New Abnormal
The NYC band’s first album in seven years is sluggish and slight, rendering their signature sound as background music
Pitchfork
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
A powerful and resounding success, and re-affirms Marling’s position as one of our most important feminist songwriters
Clash
Hamilton Leithauser
The Loves Of Your Life
Sonically ‘The Loves Of Your Life’ is a Wurlitzer whirlwind of nostalgia, however the glimpsed memories that lie at its heart are so charmingly dazzled to life - they are testament to the humanist eye of a songwriter as vividly inspired as he has ever been
Clash
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
Superb collection full of romance and hope
Evening Standard
The Strokes
The New Abnormal
The irascible rockers present a united front again to focus on taut, driven songs with catchy riffs
The Guardian
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
Written to an imaginary child about ‘what it is to be a woman in this society’, the singer’s seventh album is alternately intimate, sneering and sad, and lavished with gorgeous melodies
The Guardian