Halsey
The Great Impersonator
It's depressive power also gives it a a spirit of commiseration
Rolling Stone
Halsey
The Great Impersonator
Its concept, eloquence and even just its sheer emotional weight all serve to make this record special nonetheless, both for its quality and as a document of Halsey’s survival
Kerrang!
Halsey
The Great Impersonator
An eclectic, intimate new album
Clash
Halsey
The Great Impersonator
On the surface, the ever-evolving artist’s fifth album is an homage to the musicians who have helped shape them. Dig deeper, though, and you’ll find a her grappling with her own mortality, singing from “the space between life and death”
NME
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
On Songs of a Lost World Robert Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart; it's the best Cure album since Disintegration
Rolling Stone
Laura Marling
Patterns in Repeat Signed
Despite the uncertainty of what is to come, Patterns in Repeat is so assured in its sound. Marling is the captain of her own ship, off on another adventure with one more crew member on board
The Line Of Best Fit
Amyl And The Sniffers
Cartoon Darkness
The Australian punks' hardened third LP is a muscular dose of righteous anger in the face of a harsh reality
Albumism
Pixies
The Night the Zombies Came
The band's first album with bassist Emma Richardson upholds their brash, eccentric, oddly moving legacy with some flashes of brilliance
All Music
Soccer Mommy
Evergreen
Although the songs here are solid enough and likely to sate fans, the overall effect is a soundscape that's somewhere in the in-between, suiting the limbo of Evergreen's ruminations but not warranting superlatives within Soccer Mommy's growing catalog
All Music
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop banger
The Observer
Amyl And The Sniffers
Cartoon Darkness
Australian modern punk outfit’s third album features delightfully asinine lyrics, hair-raising guitar solos and spiky, choppy riffs
musicOMH
Ezra Collective
Dance, No One's Watching
The 2023 Mercury Prize winners’ third album is an ode to the ability of music to unite, and make us dance like we just don’t care
musicOMH