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Our Girl  The Good Kind

It’s a record that reveals new layers with each listen, inviting us to curl up and lose ourselves in its comforting embrace. ‘The Good Kind’ proves that sometimes, the long wait is worth it Dork

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

The strength of the album isn’t in the casual listening or in the individual songs – these are all weaknesses for the songs by themselves do not work as well as when they are listened to alongside the others Northern Transmissions

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Night Palace is an atmospheric, ambitious album by one of modern music's most open songwriters Exclaim

Our Girl  The Good Kind

There are some moments that fall flat, but as a general rule, Our Girl has made something wonderful Far Out

Our Girl  The Good Kind

Unlike their debut, this album is more grown-up. Less staring at the feet, sitting on large sofas, with cold cups of tea God Is In The TV

Our Girl  The Good Kind

Community and self-realisation win out on Our Girl's sublime second album. Print edition only Record Collector

Our Girl  The Good Kind

While The Good Kind opens with an affirmation and proceeds to calmly reflect on gratitude and struggle, it never quite leaves uncertainty behind, including ending on the intimate "Absences," a song about seizures and secrets All Music

Our Girl  The Good Kind

This is an incredibly exciting LP that fans of the group’s debut will lap up and will hopefully win over new fans Clash

Our Girl  The Good Kind

Fronted by The Big Moon’s Soph Nathan, the London trio’s second album is nuanced, melodic and comfortable in its own skin NME

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

Bobby Gillespie and co’s first album in eight years offsets brittle plastic funk and syrupy ballads with meaty riffs and disco beats musicOMH

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul The Observer

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

Bobby Gillespie is good at posturing, as rock frontmen ought to be, but emotional depth isn’t his thing The FT

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

As usual with Smith at his saddest, you don’t leave his orbit feeling worse about the world. You feel comforted by the fact that someone shares this universal pain so deeply A.V. Club

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

After 15 years of being in the industry, Tyler, the Creator has reached the apex of his life and career. He’s ready to reap the accompanying benefits, and express himself fully, without the ever-present chip on his shoulder A.V. Club

Haley Heynderickx  Seed of a Seed

It is a wonderfully meta title for a record – Seed of a Seed — and it’s a poetic look at nurturing the things in our inner lives that will ultimately lead to our fruitfulness Northern Transmissions