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Tori Amos  Ocean To Ocean

On her 16th album, begun early this year as the UK entered its third lockdown, the Cornwall-based singer-songwriter grapples with personal loss, the cruelty of the world, and the will to keep going Pitchfork

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

With the KICK universe now complete, there’s no telling where Arca will go next. She’ll probably head where we don’t expect her. But before bets are hedged, let’s stay within the confines of the five-part anthology for a while and explore its every nook and cranny The Line Of Best Fit

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

They all work together to support the vision of Arca, whose voice cracks, malfunctions, and explores the flux of its existence in tandem with the music Under The Radar

Taylor Swift  Red (Taylor's Version)

It proves you can take a masterpiece and make it sound even better Under The Radar

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

The transgressive icon wraps up her Kick quintet in typically enigmatic style with some highly collaborative and enormously creative new sounds The Skinny

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

It can be pretty disquieting, and not just because of the relentlessly shrill and penetrating high frequencies deployed throughout The Arts Desk

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

A data dump of this size could be read as a declaration of musical mastery, but Kick’s power only grows in its occasional crudeness. It’s an unpolished outpouring of feeling that resists cohesion at every step Loud And Quiet

Adele  30

Warm and mature, fun and relatable, and just as masterfully produced and performed as ever before, it’s just very Adele Spectrum Culture

Elbow  Flying Dream 1

On their ninth album, Mancunian mainstays Elbow ditch their traditional largesse in favor of something more restrained and lush, and, in turn, give us something truly special to carry us through winter Spectrum Culture

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

As a fully-formed whole, KICK is vibrant if not somewhat scattered. As a jumping-off point for more fractal-like expansions, though, it is explosive, with potential only really conceivable to Arca herself Exclaim

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

The Venezuelan producer explores her upbringing and spiritual worldview with this boundary-busting new collection NME

Elbow  Flying Dream 1

It’s a stunningly beautiful album, with Garvey’s signature vocals at the forefront and the band’s talented instrumentation on display Northern Transmissions

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

The fourth volume of the producer's Kick series concentrates on her music's hyperreal sensuality and vulnerability All Music

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

With four new works, the Venezuelan producer delivers a pentalogy that can mesmerise and terrify Evening Standard

Arca  Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

Four new albums of extravagantly warped electronics offer listeners a lot to take in – and her most pop-focused music to date The Guardian