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Andy Bell  Pinball Wanderer

At just eight tracks and a 30 minute running time, it does feel a bit slight at times. Yet that’s a minor quibble: much of Pinball Wanderer shows just what Bell can produce when he’s given a rare spotlight musicOMH

Andy Bell  Pinball Wanderer

With tracks that demonstrate Bell’s versatility by encompassing spirit-of-Madchester-infused workouts, lush electronica and krautrock. Impressively, the album does this while maintaining coherence, never seeming less than the sum of its parts The Quietus

Andy Bell  Pinball Wanderer

The album's experimental second half verges perilously on sketchy, but serene motorik closer Space Station Mantra offers a finely modulated sow of its maker's tastes and instincts. Print edition only Record Collector

Andy Bell  Pinball Wanderer

Vocal melodies take a back seat to the overall 'vibe', but it's a groovy corner of the musical universe to spend time in. Print edition only Mojo

Andy Bell  Pinball Wanderer

A bewitching album. Print edition only Uncut

Mdou Moctar  Tears Of Injustice

This primarily acoustic reimagining brings the artistry of the Niger-based quartet to the fore with aplomb. Print edition only Mojo

Mdou Moctar  Tears Of Injustice

Just as the absence of the usual guitar fireworks allows the group vocals and rhythmic elements to come strongly to the fore, the shift away from the original's angry spirit opens up a richer well of feeling in Moctar's pleas for a more just world. Print edition only Uncut

Mdou Moctar  Tears Of Injustice

Mdou Moctar’s Tears of Injustice is cause for mourning and melancholy. It makes time for lamentation, knowing there is more to sustaining resistance than fighting with fire PopMatters

Mdou Moctar  Tears Of Injustice

The band laid down acoustic versions of the Funeral material, often in one take, feeling out arrangements, reworking the songs in ways no less powerful than the originals Rolling Stone

Ichiko Aoba  Luminescent Creatures

With this latest album, Ichiko Aoba has created yet another subsuming listen, an oceanic and blissful record that is a masterclass in escapism Clash

Ichiko Aoba  Luminescent Creatures

Its watery, dreamlike soundscapes are totally immersive on one of those records that - temporarily at least - can make the cares of the world seem to melt away. Print edition only Uncut

Ichiko Aoba  Luminescent Creatures

Confirms Aoba as one of folk music's most consistently beguiling artists. Print edition only Record Collector

Ichiko Aoba  Luminescent Creatures

On her latest album, Luminescent Creatures, Ichiko Aoba's compositions move incrementally, like the limbs of coral on the seabed, flourishing with cultivation and care The Skinny

Ichiko Aoba  Luminescent Creatures

On her ninth album, the Japanese folk artist works in the granular, aurally ornamenting her melodies in ways made striking from the silence that surrounds them Paste Magazine

Panda Bear  Sinister Grift

Noah Lennox’s powerful and adventurous album has plenty of playlistable psych-pop, but then turns introspective: it’s a striking emotional arc The Guardian