Chat Pile
Cool World
On an album that paints a panoramic view of human suffering, the Oklahoma City group sometimes sacrifices ferocity as it expands its muscular sludge-metal sound
Pitchfork
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
No?Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
Gifted with a uniquely poetic emotion that combines deep mourning with strength and willpower
Beats Per Minute
Charli XCX
Brat and it’s completely different but still brat
She’s working through her feelings alongside the evolution of the album, which is as good a side project as any. Brat lives on in a shapeshifting form
Northern Transmissions
The Linda Lindas
No Obligation
Self-proclaimed “studio geeks,” the Linda Lindas’ experience and vision is already paying dividends, and No Obligation will one day serve as a touchstone in what seems to be an evolving and promising drive
Northern Transmissions
Charli XCX
Brat and it’s completely different but still brat
The sheer existence of this album is cause for celebration—it’s a re-interpretation with plenty of Party Girl bangers and dispatches from a raucous summer, taking its source material and widens its scope through maximalism and anti-celebrity reckoning
Paste Magazine
Charli XCX
Brat and it’s completely different but still brat
Four months after kickstarting a cultural phenomenon with her sixth album, the British pop icon invites friends and big-name acts to give it a new lease of life
NME
A Place to Bury Strangers
Synthesizer
The effects rig does a lot to carry Synthesizer, much as it has every other A Place to Bury Strangers album. For the first time in a while, though, the songs are starting to keep pace with the gear
Spectrum Culture
The Linda Lindas
No Obligation
The Linda Lindas certainly are not at the nastier end of Epitaph’s catalogue, but there’s something about this band rejecting the myth we all carry, of having to pretend we’ve got it all together, that remains incredibly powerful
Spectrum Culture
Goat
Goat
Refusing to be pinned down, this is a band that constantly dances along the edge of the void, inviting listeners to step just a little closer. Don’t just listen to Goat. Get yourself lost in it. Go on
God Is In The TV
Charli XCX
Brat and it’s completely different but still brat
Quick on the heels of her blockbuster album BRAT, the pop star offers a remix album that is anything but obligatory. Like its sister album, it is unexpected, unfiltered, uncomfortably messy, and dizzyingly fun
Pitchfork
Geordie Greep
The New Sound
‘The New Sound’ deftly extracts the unserious bombast of black midi and places it in a grotesque but engrossing atmosphere
Clash
Leon Bridges
Leon
The soul singer looks backward on his fourth album, a wistful nostalgia trip that wraps its ’70s-inspired sound in sumptuous, heavily stylized production
Pitchfork