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Snow Patrol  The Forest Is The Path

Their first album since 2018’s Wildness is also their first as a trio, but upheavals have not obviously changed their sound musicOMH

Snow Patrol  The Forest Is The Path

Sometimes, as on Hold Me In The Fire, they unashamedly chase Chasing Cars’ modern-day-standard template. At others, like restive prisoners looking to try new ideas on the outside, they break out, hence the electro-percussive, choral title track. Print edition only Mojo

Snow Patrol  The Forest Is The Path

Big feelings and even bigger yearning continue to be the orders of the day making The Forest Is the Path yet another late-era treasure trove that highlights all the facets of Snow Patrol's pure emotional catharsis and introspection All Music

The Jesus Lizard  Rack

The band Steve Albini claimed to be the greatest band of the ’90s are back with a bang, after 26 years musicOMH

Floating Points  Cascade

A set of bangers rich in colour and content, full to bursting with incident and energy, Sam Shepherd has made something rather special musicOMH

Nilüfer Yanya  My Method Actor

An album of constant surprises in which to immerse, it confirms its creator as an exciting talent musicOMH

Tindersticks  Soft Tissue

They are a band with a catalog worth getting lost in, and Soft Tissue stands as one of their finest moments All Music

Nilüfer Yanya  My Method Actor

A soft-spoken, probing outing for Yanya, one whose dreamy web of acoustic instruments and electronic accents persistently allures while scrutinizing All Music

The Jesus Lizard  Rack

The Nirvana peers’ first album in 26 years is a masterclass in tightly controlled chaos The Observer

Nilüfer Yanya  My Method Actor

The Londoner sings with murmured vocals about opaque scenarios in a thoughtful, interestingly cryptic new record The FT

Floating Points  Cascade

Build-ups, peaks and drops are used with unerring skill on the producer’s latest record A man with round brown glasses stares The FT

Nilüfer Yanya  My Method Actor

An understated meditation on performance and emotional excavation, somehow manifest like the grandiose approach of cinema Northern Transmissions

Floating Points  Cascade

In Cascade, Floating Points reclaims the dancefloor while elevating the genre beyond its traditional boundaries Northern Transmissions

Porches  Shirt

A departure from the easy listening that fans love, and challenges listeners in a more confrontational urgency and intensity Northern Transmissions

Porches  Shirt

There’s a grand achievement in assembling a record so abstract but universal Far Out