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Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
Sable, Fable is an album that is felt as much as heard: the contraction of its opening tracks, the release of its love songs, the resolve of its closing numbers. Print edition only
Uncut
Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
In a world of uncertainty and chaos in 2025, there is absolutely nothing wrong with just being nice
Dork
Black Country, New Road
Forever Howlong
The Cambridge band’s third album rotates among three distinct lead vocalists: Tyler Hyde, May Kershaw, and Georgia Ellery. Each musician brings a separate aesthetic, vocabulary, and emotional compass to the material, allowing every track to fully inhabit its writer’s idiosyncrasies
Paste Magazine
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Death Hilarious
On the Newcastle band’s fifth album, taking the “scenic route” to Hell sounds downright pleasant compared to the route we’re on right now in the US, and perhaps in the UK, too
Paste Magazine
Scowl
We Are All Angels
It feels like an attack on the senses where you don’t actually stop to take anything in for even a single second
Far Out
Scowl
We Are All Angels
‘Are We All Angels’ stands as both a thrilling evolution and a provocative statement from a band determined to define themselves on their own terms, delivering one of the best heavy albums in years in the process – no wings required
Dork
Scowl
We Are All Angels
Love it or hate it, one thing’s clear here: this band’s ambitions are soaring skyward
DIY
Scowl
We Are All Angels
Despite some undeniably massive moments, it seems like the bite has been taken out of Californian hardcore lot Scowl on their new album
The Skinny
Scowl
We Are All Angels
If they keep developing their songwriting chops and branch out a little further, they could have a truly great album in them. In the meantime, Are We All Angels is a solid prototype
Sputnik Music (staff)
Scowl
We Are All Angels
Scowl’s vibrant and endearing second album soars like the blinding beings of its title
Clash
Scowl
We Are All Angels
Where things used to often be a smash-and-grab affair, here it all breathes, allowing moments like the enormous chorus of Special, or the way Tonight (I’m Afraid) grows from its staccato opening into a gigantic bit of alt.rock that’s truly stunning in its sheer scope
Kerrang!
Florist
Jellywish
The record prompts leaning in, not least of all for the gentle, cantering insistence of "Have Heaven" and "Our Hearts In A Room", with its soft piano and brush work. Print edition only
Uncut
Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
Soulful, almost spiritual in its delivery
DIY
Sleigh Bells
Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
A joyfully nostalgic thread runs through it
DIY
Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
Fans feared this could be Justin Vernon's big farewell, but instead his embrace of sunnier climes feels like a new chapter
NME
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