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Daphni  Butterfly

Snaith largely maintains the requisite club-friendly bpm rates while deftly integrating more surprising elements. Print edition only Uncut

Daphni  Butterfly

A sprawling Daphni DJ set in microcosm, Butterfly is feel-good music of the purest kind. Print edition only Mojo

Daphni  Butterfly

It might already be the most relentlessly feel-good album of 2026. DIY

Daphni  Butterfly

Butterfly feels less like a fusion of Daphni and Caribou, and more like an uninhibited manifestation of Snaith's ever-changing tastes and proclivities Exclaim

Daphni  Butterfly

It may only be February, but this already feels like a defining electronic record of the year Clash

Mandy, Indiana  URGH

It’s also chaotic and messy, but also catchy. This is not an album, or band, to sleep on in 2026 Clash

Mandy, Indiana  URGH

The noise-rock band’s second album is a breakthrough: insidiously catchy, incomprehensibly groovy, and fueled by righteous fury Pitchfork

Ratboys  Singin' To An Empty Chair

Bringing their country-tinted indie rock to boundless new landscapes, the Chicago band returns with their most emotionally affecting and compositionally advanced songs to date Pitchfork

Ratboys  Singin' To An Empty Chair

A wonderful album that shows Ratboys revving their engine once again, ready to take another long, curious lap around the block PopMatters

Joyce Manor  I Used to Go to This Bar

The pop-punk institution Joyce Manor emphasize melody on another hooky collection of melancholy-tinged anthems PopMatters

Geologist  Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?

You might expect that pulling one part away from the whole would leave you with something solitary, but Weitz’s departure from his proverbial and literal ‘collective’ does not reduce him to a singularity. Instead, he emerges as a complex sum of parts all of his own The Quietus

Mandy, Indiana  URGH

A fresh glittering chromatic beast of shimmering synths and rhythms forged through industrial wreckage The Line Of Best Fit

Ratboys  Singin' To An Empty Chair

What would you say to someone who isn’t there? The band spends their latest album breaking through these barriers, liberated by the knowledge that they tried Under The Radar

Mandy, Indiana  URGH

Since the lyrics are in French, only those fluent will pick up specific references, but the sound throughout is scarred and wounded The Arts Desk

Mandy, Indiana  URGH

On the Mancunian-Parisian band’s second album, the noise rockers escalate the grit that defined their debut Paste Magazine