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Perfume Genius  Glory

With Glory, Hadreas discovers a rare balance between approachable songwriting and musical ambition that reinvigorates his music All Music

Deafheaven  Lonely People With Power

Proves Deafheaven are a group that stays the course and keep delivering that signature sound they’re known for Beats Per Minute

Benefits  Constant Noise

When Constant Noise triumphs, it absolutely soars Beats Per Minute

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer album is both an intoxicating reflection on a remarkable, 30-year career and a thrilling, synth-opera step towards the project’s next chapter Paste Magazine

Lucy Dacus  Forever Is A Feeling

An exploration of love through a tentative, poignantly relatable lens DIY

Deafheaven  Lonely People With Power

Lonely People With Power is a masterpiece that turns Deafheaven’s story on its head, leaving greyed out charcoal marks where Sunbather was once penciled in Sputnik Music (staff)

Bdrmm  Microtonic

Microtonic is an excellent leap forward and caters to the niche’s niche of drem fans who don’t like being understimulated. Sweet Sputnik Music (staff)

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

With Dan’s Boogie, Bejar’s attention turns to the form and shape of his songs as he dabbles with a more improvised method of performing while also retaining the urgency and wit that has always defined his work Spectrum Culture

Perfume Genius  Glory

The vanishing point between the personal and pop, Glory is lush, restless and unforgettable Spectrum Culture

Lucy Dacus  Forever Is A Feeling

The fourth solo album from the boygenius member has moments of magic, but struggles to match the emotional intensity of Lucy Dacus' prior work The Skinny

Deafheaven  Lonely People With Power

This will thrill longtime fans while simultaneously ushering new listeners into the fold Under The Radar

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer record is contemplative, morning-after music par excellence: He’s putting the whole story back together, knowing it’s all going to fall apart Pitchfork

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

Reckless, euphoric and relentless, this may be the most surprising record of Dan Bejar’s wonderful career so far musicOMH

Perfume Genius  Glory

Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire The Observer

Lucy Dacus  Forever Is A Feeling

Forever Is a Feeling closes, significantly, with "Lost Time," a song whose sparse-bulky-sparse structure emphasizes her regret at not saying those three little words sooner. In the end, she manages to subtly dramatize her music without betraying the quiet honesty she's already known and beloved for All Music