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Los Bitchos  Talkie Talkie

Los Bitchos’ Talkie Talkie builds an immersive experience with a larger narrative. They challenge the conventions of rock through sound and representation PopMatters

Enumclaw  Home Is Another Life

Enumclaw’s sophomore LP, Home in Another Life, again delivers 1990s alternative sounds but is confessional in nature and speaks to what ails us PopMatters

Floating Points  Cascade

Three years after exploring new dimensions in ambient jazz alongside Pharoah Sanders, Sam Shepherd refocuses his efforts on the dancefloor, with dazzling results Pitchfork

Fat Dog  WOOF.

The UK’s latest post-punk export has built its rep on antic live shows and costumed hijinks. But on record, Fat Dog’s arch dance-punk fusion feels more calculated than provocatively chaotic Pitchfork

Snow Patrol  The Forest Is The Path

Lovelorn melancholy is rendered a weepy soup of actorly tears The Arts Desk

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