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Tate McRae  So Close To What

Confident, assured and revelling in her pop dreams Dork

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

Presenting with a breezy, lived-in warmth DIY

The Murder Capital  Blindness

An album that feels both urgent and timeless DIY

Youth Lagoon  Rarely Do I Dream

Trevor Powers wants you to get lost in the album, and he makes it impossibly easy to take the bait Spectrum Culture

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

There’s very little sinister about Sinister Grift, at least, not in the album’s warm and glimmering instrumentation. And that unsteady ground — of appearances versus what’s under the hood — only adds to the mystique and enjoyment of Panda Bear’s music Under The Radar

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

On his seventh album as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox delivers ten meticulously crafted songs, exploring a new thematic territory that's bittersweet but buoyant The Skinny

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

They're lean and immediate in nature, with melodic ease that belies lyrics awash with loss, uncertainty, regret, overwhelm and defeat, feelings that sit on the surface, undisguised. Print edition only Uncut

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

Perfectly sequenced, Sinister Grift's dubious uplift gradually falls away to reveal an exquisite melancholy introspection, the sound of optimism weighted by mooring hooks of sadness. Print edition only Mojo

Tate McRae  So Close To What

On her third album, the Canadian singer and dancer amps up the 2000s influence and dials up the sex. Though it’s her most mature release yet, the music still sounds tedious and reheated Pitchfork

Saya Gray  Saya

There are some self-consciously experimental moments, but the Toronto musician’s genre-mashing songs of heartbreak are often focused and fresh The Guardian

Saya Gray  Saya

On her second album, the Japanese-Canadian musician’s magpie art pop coheres into something like a traditional breakup record, but her perspective and production are far from conventional Pitchfork

Saya Gray  Saya

Canadian alt-pop artist's debut matches sonic surrealism with defiantly vulnerable lyrics Rolling Stone

Saya Gray  Saya

A vivid and vulnerable album, brimming with emotional depth DIY

Saya Gray  Saya

The Japanese-Canadian musician’s sophomore LP is a breakup exercise full of epic, idiosyncratic stories of farewell and mourning cut up into an all-encompassing and all-evading menagerie of trip-hop, psych-folk, prog-rock, glitch-tronica and dubby fusion Paste Magazine

Tate McRae  So Close To What

Tate and her team clearly have an ear for sticky melodies and the lack of necessary lore is appreciated, but there still is a very pervasive sense of figuring things out here Sputnik Music (staff)