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Bar Italia  Tracey Denim

Tracey Denim lives and thrives in the shadows of past greats, but is unable to escape them Beats Per Minute

Bar Italia  Tracey Denim

There are plenty of signs that Bar Italia are poised to reach the emotional heights of Blonde Redhead or Interpol, and for all their love of the past, they are clearly prepared for the future Spectrum Culture

Paul Simon  Seven Psalms

Surveying the scene, looking back on the past, not worried about the legacy but focused on the final notes Kerrang!

Mandy, Indiana  I've Seen A Way

Mandy, Indiana are angry at the political structures that have failed various marginalized groups, and they’re going to use the energy generated by their rage by taking it to the dance floor Spectrum Culture

Water From Your Eyes  Everyone's Crushed

Six albums in, the real potential of Water From Your Eyes is only just starting to crystallise. Everyone’s Crushed is their best collection of ideas to date, blending disparate elements into a harmonious cacophony you can lose yourself to God Is In The TV

Water From Your Eyes  Everyone's Crushed

At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde. But when Water From Your Eyes find transcendence – especially on the record’s final two tracks, “14” and the extra winky “Buy My Product” – it can be quite stunning. Rolling Stone

Arlo Parks  My Soft Machine

Parks has a skill for inviting listeners not only into her mind, but into her immediate environment, and the effects bring her racing emotions right to the forefront Rolling Stone

Lana Del Rey  Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

With Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey implores us not to forget her and has ensured that we can’t possibly PopMatters

Graham Nash  Now

Now reminds of the treasure that Graham Nash has been and continues to be in the ongoing narrative of rock music and it’s a snapshot of the creative spark PopMatters

Paul Simon  Seven Psalms

Seven Psalms is Paul Simon’s 15th solo album and in it, he confronts his mortality head-on and wonders about God, the reasons for existence, and death PopMatters

Arlo Parks  My Soft Machine

The singer-songwriter’s second album is headier and more dynamic than her Mercury Prize-winning debut, but its sharp writing is often blunted by its temperate sound Pitchfork

Water From Your Eyes  Everyone's Crushed

The Brooklyn duo's logic-defying new album threads anticapitalist critique, stoner humor, and a hazy undercurrent of fatalism into art-pop so mesmerizing it'll give you a contact high Pitchfork

Sparks  The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

The Mael brothers are riding high. Their 26th album strikes the ideal Sparksian balance of madcap melody, labyrinthine arrangement, and stinging social satire Pitchfork

Foo Fighters  But Here We Are

But Here We Are will come to be the most treasured Foo Fighters album of all Gigwise

Foo Fighters  But Here We Are

While it’s been a long road for Foo Fighters to get to this point, and this album doesn’t quite match up to their most distant triumphs, these aging rockers have demonstrated here that some fire in the belly remains Sputnik Music (staff)