Fionn Regan
O AVALANCHE
It’s cinematic and magical and stands as some of Fionn’s most captivating and compelling work to date
Clash
Tyler, The Creator
Chromakopia
An uncompromising honesty lies within this snapshot of an artist willing to share his chaos
musicOMH
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with mortality and doubt as only they could
Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy
Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album is steeped in a loneliness darker than that of her youth, pairing raw reflections on grief with the most laid-back, pastoral music of her career
Pitchfork
Tyler, The Creator
Chromakopia
On his seventh album, Tyler is both mask-on and mask-off. It’s an electric, revealing, and perennially odd journey back into his aging psyche
Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy
Evergreen
Soccer Mommy wrestles with profound loss on her new record, which is more organic and grander than anything she has released before
PopMatters
Kylie Minogue
Tension II
On her 17th studio album, Kylie Minogue once again proves that few of her peers or followers understand the art of light dance-pop as well as she does
PopMatters
Being Dead
EELS
Austin’s Being Dead offer up a bizarre, disjointed realm that constantly shifts, sweeping you up and launching you into the most unexpected places
PopMatters
Tyler, The Creator
Chromakopia
The rapper’s ambitions are grand, but the album attempts to do a lot while saying little
Slant Magazine
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
The motif of the elusive girl is still here, but he desperately asks her to “promise you’ll be with me in the end”
The Arts Desk
Pom Pom Squad
Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Mia co-produced this time around which allowed for more experimentation, and the triumphant disco-punk of opener ‘Downhill’ was a result of this
Dork
Pom Pom Squad
Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Pom Pom Squad build upon the distinctive style and sound they have previously set out for themselves, creating an album that celebrates angst and anger as well as gradual acceptance
Far Out