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Sports Team  Deep Down Happy

Sports Team are suburban maestros documenting modern Britain with crackling indie pop The Line Of Best Fit

Sports Team  Deep Down Happy

The band is coming into their own, romanticizing the more humdrum aspects of the everyday with both joyous celebration and sulky dissatisfaction. But hey, if all else fails, at least they're pretty good at this rock n' roll business No Ripcord

Sports Team  Deep Down Happy

Propelled largely by guitarist and songwriter Rob Knaggs’ complex compositions, the record nods to good old-fashioned indie but also contemporary post-punk, hurtling between pithy social commentary and youthful abandonment The Independent

Sports Team  Deep Down Happy

We want to be positive, we really do. But it’s a fairly middle-of-the-road indie record. It could do with a little more depth, a little more humanity Clash

Run The Jewels  RTJ4

‘RTJ4’ is a must listen. It is diverse enough to appeal to even the hardest crowds. Many genres are represented here, but lyrical hip-hop is at the forefront of all that Run The Jewels is Clash

Hinds  The Prettiest Curse

After three albums about the same thing, Hinds haven’t shown any real progression by shedding their lo-fi trappings; instead they’ve just unearthed their shortcomings Beats Per Minute

Run The Jewels  RTJ4

Throw up your pistol and fist, puff out that chest and “Kill Your Masters” because Run The Jewels are giving you the soundtrack to fight the oppressors and the antidote to today’s unrelenting barrage of bullshit Northern Transmission

Deerhoof  Future Teenage Cave Artists

On their 15th album, the indie-rock institution goes apocalyptic with their first concept record Pitchfork

Owen Pallett  Island

With assistance from the London Contemporary Orchestra, the prolific Canadian composer’s arrangements propel dense, elliptical mythologies that unravel like fantasy novels Pitchfork

Lady Gaga  Chromatica

With incomparable flair, the pop diva returns to her dance-pop days with a fabulously fun and deeply personal album that is at turns bizarre, theatrical, and ambitious Pitchfork

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit  Reunions

Often resembles a face-to-face chat with the songwriter as he dispels wisdom earned from a life in music, questions born from a life on the road and love that blossomed from family Under The Radar

Carly Rae Jepsen  Dedicated Side B

The album demonstrates the tangled multi-dimensionality of both the singer’s own psyche and the act of sex itself Slant Magazine

Run The Jewels  RTJ4

Killer Mike and El-P have long-since learnt how to turn their words into ammunition, but this is a distillation of all their anger and elation, hurt and love The Independent

Run The Jewels  RTJ4

The agit-rap duo’s fourth LP was recorded before America was ignited in protest, but it still feels perfectly apt for 2020 America Rolling Stone

Run The Jewels  RTJ4

El-P’s beats sound like they were rolled in breading and dropped into a fryer, the intense heat of chemical reactions bubbling to the surface and scalding those who get too close Sputnik Music (staff)