Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
Momma sound like the same band here, as they tweak their sound in ways that seem to reflect emotional complexity while strengthening hooks and riffs, at least on the more memorable tunes
All Music
Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
A record of duality; here, yearning is part-and-parcel of purging and moving on
DIY
Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
The Brooklyn band’s third album isn’t doing anything innovative, but these “road songs” hit hard enough that originality becomes irrelevant
Paste Magazine
Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
Friedman and Weingarten’s friendship remains an ever-constant reference point in their most confessionally open offering yet, the core chemistry between the two leads pulling the disparate and shared pasts together in a unified voice
The Line Of Best Fit
Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
On Welcome to My Blue Sky, they make getting lost on the highway sound like an irresistible rock & roll romance
Rolling Stone
The Waterboys
Life, Death, & Dennis Hopper
In the end, it comes down to little moments of bliss, and those seven or eight words. "I don't know how I made it" Scott sings, as Taylor Goldsmith essays an angelic harmony. "but I made it". As a funeral march, it's a humdinger. Print edition only
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The Waterboys
Life, Death, & Dennis Hopper
The hit rate is high, and Mike Scott is clearly having fun cutting himself free from The Waterboys' past, and playing fast and loose - much like the mercurial subject of this album. Print edition only
Mojo
Craig Finn
Always Been
With The War On Drugs and Sam Fender along for the ride, The Hold Steady singer’s novel-like sixth is probably his finest solo album to date
musicOMH
Destroyer
Dan's Boogie
There’s plenty to explore and that’s without even mentioning Bejar’s beautifully crafted, sardonic lyrics, but don’t get too lost because Destroyer will be off somewhere else again soon
The Quietus
Black Country, New Road
Forever Howlong
The London sextet return with their long-awaited third studio album – and they’ve still got it
NME
Craig Finn
Always Been
What separates this album from the 14 he's made before is the involvement of Adam Granduciel, who produces luminously, plays guitar, synths and more, and enlists his bandmates for much of the remaining instrumentation. Print edition only
Mojo
Craig Finn
Always Been
Though still hyper-literate, the sound away from the semi-spoken ballads tends less frantic than The Hod Steady, from the Cars-like new wave of "postcards" to the distinctly Springstonian "Luke & Leanna". Print edition only
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