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Chat Pile  Who Loves The Sun

Chat Pile’s sludgy take on metal and post-hardcore is full of clang and roil, and it suits the themes exactly, making Who Loves the Sun the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse as it approaches in that classic Hemingway fashion: slowly, and then all at once Spectrum Culture

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

So Much for Goodbyes can feel overstuffed at times, but no individual track runs overlong. Strings has plenty to say, and he says it. Often, he does so by blending where he came from with other places he's visited, and it makes for a truly distinct sound Spectrum Culture

Arab Strap  Half-Told Tales

You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll be sad, you'll reflect on your life. It's Arab Strap alright! Sputnik Music (staff)

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

While it might be missing the high stakes and dramatic flourishes of nomadic drug-fuelled hysteria, this album is most certainly a tapestry of earthy tones, lush melodies, and the feeling that, in the words of Jack Kerouac, “dreaming ties all mankind together” Far Out

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Amos hasn’t stopped being restless. For once, he’s just found a reason to stay in one place for a while Northern Transmissions

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Acclaim for 2024's Box For Buddy, Box For Star raised the stakes, not that you'd know it from the breezy assurance of these songs. Print edition only Uncut

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Amos's most overt experiment with genre to date Exclaim

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Nate Amos trades the magpie charm of his past solo work for a warm, twangy, and tightly constructed approach. It’s the sound of a songwriter sketching out his own gospel. Pitchfork

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

The genre-hopping songwriter trades leftfield twists for bright alt-country, delivering his warmest, most assured record yet NME

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Nate Amos’ second proper record upholds an enduring songwriting tradition, emphasizing narrative and studied cohesion over the extemporaneity of his earlier releases Paste Magazine

This is Lorelei  The Singer In My Band

Nate Amos’ latest album as This Is Lorelai is a spellbinding AOTY contender No Ripcord

Dinosaur Jr  There Near

The trio’s latest is no reinvention, but a reminder that J Mascis and co. have little reason to abandon their tried-and-true formula Paste Magazine

Chat Pile  Who Loves The Sun

The vocals are more inhuman, the rhythms more enforced, the guitar riffs more complex and alien. Yet within all this darkness, beauty still resides: you want to sing along to every track of this journey towards eternal human autumn Beats Per Minute

Ravyn Lenae  Blue Island

Ravyn Lenae has plenty of directions available to her and, rather pleasingly, appears interested in trying all of them Dork

The Linda Lindas  Gotta Get Out

Catches the four-piece actively broadening what their band can be Dork