3 September 2025
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Second full-length album from the Houston, Texas rapper with guest appearances from Key Glock, Latto, Pooh Shiesty, Rico Nasty, Jhené Aiko, Lucky Daye, Sauce Walka, Lil' Keke and Big Pokey
7.5
On her new album, the rap superstar comes up with just the right balance of slick bops and searing confessionals Read Review
The Texan rapper comes out swinging on her latest release – slinging a seemingly limitless supply of fantastic insults at the industry and countless nameless foes Read Review
‘Traumazine’ abounds in empowering affirmations but, beneath it all, this is a release that starts to unpack Megan the human Read Review
While standing atop the rap world, the pop culture juggernaut reveals a cocky yet reflective version of herself with the follow-up to 2020's 'Good News' Read Review
Solidifying her position amongst rap’s big stars of the 2020s, this second studio album shows an encouraging diversity alongside her good ear for beats Read Review
Her songs are riotously graphic but the Texas rapper radiates charm and southern hospitality in a joyous, sweltering show Read Review
On her second album, Meg dishes out disses, gets political, and grapples with her personal life. It’s an ambitious and uneven attempt to step into her most challenging role yet: herself Read Review
On her sophomore effort, the rapper goes completely mask-off, directing her anger at other rappers and former friends Read Review
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David Byrne Who Is The Sky
Byrne is one of pop’s great collaborators, and in his quest to make a record that goes around the world in 37 minutes, he arms himself with the sizeable Ghost Train Orchestra The Line Of Best Fit
Deftones Private Music
It sits firmly in the upper echelon of the band’s catalogue as one of their best Beats Per Minute
Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend
Pop's pithiest lyricist hones the fun and flirty persona that's made her a superstar NME
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
To return with a record so deeply personal and well-written that it feels like a complete reintroduction without any reinvention is an incredible feat, and in this instance, has made for one of the finest LPs to be released this year Exclaim
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Gush
Although GUSH’s start-stop-start cadence makes it hard for listeners to fully sink into a groove here, the album’s few standout tracks will fit nicely on any dance playlist Under The Radar
With GUSH, her artistic profundity continues to beam with ambition and warrants rhapsodic praise. The next philosophical journey she’ll take us on may be one even closer towards what feels like her The Line Of Best Fit
On her most social, libidinal collection of songs to date, the Los Angeles musician combines cerebral synthesis with beats inflected by two-step, dancehall, and ballroom Pitchfork
Gush is inventive and unpredictable. On the other hand, it’s more direct and less phantasmagorical than the predecessor The Quietus
The electronic composer’s latest album leans hard toward pop, but still favors ornamentation over direct jolts Spectrum Culture
It is not cohesive or intelligent enough to be so explicit, and is far too overt to be a fun pop album The Arts Desk
An adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results The Skinny
Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound Rolling Stone
Big Thief Double Infinity
The band sheds their usual ragged, rustic style in favor of a more polished approach Slant Magazine
Shame Cutthroat
More eclectic than before and outgrowing easy categorisation, this is the sound of a band performing at the peak of their powers musicOMH
Saint Etienne International
To the end, Saint Etienne have never faltered on their mission statement. Magic is here. Believe Record Collector
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