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Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

‘CHROMAKOPIA’ has depth, it has worldbuilding, but just as importantly, it has some absolute bangers, too Dork

Halsey  The Great Impersonator

Halsey deftly wields the enticements of pop, all the while exploring ageless issues regarding self, suffering, and the pursuit of wholeness Beats Per Minute

Laura Marling  Patterns in Repeat Signed

Another short album that feels like a glimpse into Marling’s household, a slice of her own domesticity to track her first years of motherhood. It’s another gift, for her child and her listeners, but more assuredly for herself Beats Per Minute

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

Where Tyler does come up a short on Chromakopia is a piece of his repertoire he hasn’t particularly seemed to struggle with until now, and that he may not even be aware of or taking into account: his lyrical technique as a rapper, as well as his all-around rapping abilities Northern Transmissions

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

The album’s intros are remarkable in their patience and tension, holding the listener’s attention until the total weight of each song arrives. This method, which The Cure perfected on Disintegration, feels even more refined here, enhancing the album’s cathartic power XS Noize

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

Through imperfections and rigidity, the Los Angeles rapper’s seventh album gives us a clear, damning portrait of his humanity—set aglow by contradiction, wrestling with the loneliness that comes with industry praise, and ending without resolution Paste Magazine

Halsey  The Great Impersonator

On an album where the pop artist insists they can be anything, they refuse to languish as a hit-making commodity Paste Magazine

Amyl And The Sniffers  Cartoon Darkness

The four-piece Aussie rock band show off their versatile songwriting on the highly-anticipated third album Paste Magazine

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

The LA rapper's seventh album is packed with sonic invention and beautiful storytelling, but its messaging is confused NME

Underworld  Strawberry Hotel

The album is another successful entry in Underworld’s catalogue, one that seems to be a grower this time around. Like they mentioned, please don’t shuffle Sputnik Music (staff)

Soccer Mommy  Evergreen

With her fourth album Evergreen, Sophie Allison’s Soccer Mommy grapples with loss, bringing in deeper concepts of memory even as she looks for hope that will get her through to the next phase Spectrum Culture

Kelly Lee Owens  Dreamstate

Kelly Lee Owens’ fourth record is a techno-escapist fantasy, a hypnagogic balloon popping above the dancefloor Spectrum Culture

Pixies  The Night the Zombies Came

Pixies’ 10th album, The Night the Zombies Came, is a good album that fans of latter-day Pixies will have no trouble embracing and even skeptical older fans should grudgingly admire Spectrum Culture

Pixies  The Night the Zombies Came

The album has a purposeful eeriness that makes it interesting The Arts Desk

Halsey  The Great Impersonator

Halsey compares her medical use of needles to long-dead junkies she once knew The Arts Desk