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Dry Cleaning  Secret Love

Secret Love contains some of Dry Cleaning’s prettiest moments, even as the lyrics are at their most dire The Line Of Best Fit

Dry Cleaning  Secret Love

Florence Shaw's low-spoken abstract vignettes and dryly comedic, poetic flights of fancy are the key ingredient The Arts Desk

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

What Tragic Magic understands early on is that limitation can be a compositional force rather than an obstacle Spectrum Culture

The Cribs  Selling A Vibe

By polishing their sound and developing their melodies, the Cribs have expanded what they do without resorting to anything radical Spectrum Culture

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

Though it may be categorized as experimental or avant-garde, Tragic Magic is an accessible and rewarding listen. It's music you can get lost in, or get lost to Exclaim

Sleaford Mods  The Demise of Planet X

Getting screamed at with a finger in the face can be off-putting, especially if it goes on too long. That said, we live in an off-putting world and it’s a great thing to have Sleaford Mods here to call us out on our ills Northern Transmissions

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

While sonically ethereal, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore’s collaborative full-length Tragic Magic starts to feel greatly repetitive as it progresses Northern Transmissions

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

In the end, Tragic Magic feels like a response to the wildfires they’d suffered through. Rather than capture the tragedy and strife of it all, they sought – and created – refuge Beats Per Minute

Jenny on Holiday  Quicksand Heart

‘Quicksand Heart’ works because it lets the highs be huge and the low moments be honest, without ever losing its pop grip Dork

Dry Cleaning  Secret Love

It’s a record from a band allowing their sound to widen without ever losing sight of who they are Dork

The Cribs  Selling A Vibe

The Cribs sound not revitalised, but re-centred, and that distinction makes all the difference Dork

Sleaford Mods  The Demise of Planet X

Modern life may be rubbish - but Sleaford Mods have turned the detritus into gold Hot Press

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

The composers’ first collaborative album ebbs from epic, cinematic heights to delicate and dreamy lullabies The Guardian

Sleaford Mods  The Demise of Planet X

The duo’s 13th album finds Jason Williamson as baffled and infuriated as ever at the state of the world, with help from some unexpected collaborators The Guardian

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

Each creative filament feels fully charged, dancing across tides of mercurial water. Lattimore’s harp echoes and elevates a time that harks back to a more distant past and Barwick’s synths and siren-calls keeps us in the glass-edged moment The Quietus