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Aimee Mann  Queens Of The Summer Hotel

It ranks with the best albums of Mann’s nearly 40-year career. Expressive and emotive, it’s a work that finds delicacy and diligence operating on equal footing American Songwriter

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

Dawson is able to soar gloriously over Circle’s layers of sound, while the group are stronger with his mighty voice and melodies elevating their tumult. Print edition only Uncut

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

The best folk/metal concept album about seven special plants you'll hear all year. Print edition only Mojo

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

On new album Henki, Richard Dawson and Circle bring prog rock bombast down to a human scale, still utterly triumphant The Quietus

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

The Newcastle upon Tyne singer-songwriter and the Finnish band are a well-made match The FT

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

The eccentric English songwriter and the prolific Finnish rock group collaborate for an album that routes ancient plant life into deeply human stories of toil, tragedy, and the afterlife Pitchfork

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

The absurd and serious wheeze that is being alive is so brilliantly explored here; how the life of a seed (as on Silene) can mirror our own lived experiences. It takes special artists to draw out emotional resonance from something that can seem so abstract The Irish Times

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

A bizarrely entertaining new sound world Evening Standard

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

Folk hero Richard Dawson linking up with Finnish post-rockers Circle brings out their mutual best The Line Of Best Fit

ABBA  Voyage

Voyage really does sound like an ABBA album that could have been made in the early 1980s; it is as if the book was closed in 1982 and has been finally reopened, a little dusty but picking up exactly where it left off, remarkably unimpeded by the intervening years Beats Per Minute

Richard Dawson & Circle  Henki

These are wild, protean hard rock songs rooted in psychedelic folk and delivered with Green Man-worthy gusto. What's not to love? All Music

Adele  30

Although the potency of 30 diminishes with “Oh My God” and “Can I Get It,” the final three songs are so raw, moving, and perfectly executed that the two lesser tracks become mere blips in the grandeur of the rest of the album A.V. Club

Elbow  Flying Dream 1

The northern romanticists’ lockdown album opens out into gentle, restrained songs of warmth and empathy The Observer

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit  Georgia Blue

The underlying concept is that all the artists covered have a connection with Georgia The Arts Desk

Sons of Kemet  Black To The Future

While it may not take over the world, it is a perfect record for this moment in time as an expression of collective weariness in the midst of an almost two-year and counting pandemic worldwide, the spectre of Brexit in the UK, and amidst the struggles of the civil rights movement in the U.S. to stop police brutality and mass incarceration Under The Radar