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The barrier-breaking K-Pop icons return with a blockbuster album Clash

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Ending a hiatus that began in 2022, the septet recapture a distinctiveness that had been threatening to ebb away The Guardian

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Seven members attack the music with a ferocity that feels earned and personal. The album feels more often like seven individuals with real chemistry than one polished unit. The solo years gave each member a sharper creative identity, and RM’s instincts hold the whole thing together Consequence Of Sound

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On its blockbuster return, the world's biggest band stresses group identity and South Korean roots, while pushing the songs into adventurous new territory Rolling Stone

Brigitte Calls Me Baby  Irreversible

Irreversible sounds like a dead end: a lethargic monument to hollow style over substance, entirely on brand for a band that saddled their debut with one of the more ridiculous, faux-philosophical titles of recent years. It is a meaningless shell of a record with few, if any, redeeming features No Ripcord

Ora Cogan  Hard Hearted Woman

In a time that can appear bent on applauding cynicism Cogan chooses curiosity. Her songs look straight into the abyss and still reach out for colour The Line Of Best Fit

Shabaka  Of The Earth

On his first true solo album, Shabaka unites beats, flutes and saxophone (and some rap) Spectrum Culture

The Orielles  Only You Left

As with the rest of their discography, The Orielles once again prove that you don’t always have to follow along with the masses to make good music Beats Per Minute

The Black Crowes  A Pound of Feathers

Vintage effort from blues-rock supremos Hot Press

Harry Styles  Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

Wisely shoves Harry Styles out of the spotlight in favor of compelling nostalgia for a not-too-distant musical past Spectrum Culture

The Orielles  Only You Left

A band expanding further into new genres whilst still acknowledging their funky upstart roots God Is In The TV

Harry Styles  Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

Harry Styles sounds tired of trying to check boxes on someone else’s list, and he’s trying to figure out his own sound as an adult man in his third decade PopMatters

Gorillaz  The Mountain

On The Mountain, Gorillaz render the cinema of life, with its frankness and earnest-heartedness, as naturally as anything they’ve created PopMatters

Kim Gordon  Play Me

If The Collective was punishing in its density, Play Me is its equal and opposite: leaner and more melodic without sacrificing invention. It's an album that reaffirms Gordon still knows how, and why, to push forward All Music

Kim Gordon  Play Me

In a time when chaos and unpredictability are the experience de jour, one can push reality away or embrace it. Gordon does the latter. With unflagging allure Beats Per Minute