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Playboi Carti  Music

The new-school rap leader remakes trap again in his own image on his breathlessly anticipated third studio album NME

Playboi Carti  Music

It’s brash, loud, psychedelic, and, crucially, it’s very, very dumb Sputnik Music (staff)

Playboi Carti  Music

Music is an argument for his status as an era-defining talent and a wholly unique pop star Rolling Stone

Playboi Carti  Music

The album is long and messy, but it demonstrates the rapper’s staggering range Slant Magazine

Playboi Carti  Music

Carti’s long-awaited third official album is a blockbuster event that synthesizes all of his impulses—good and bad—into a dizzying, inspired, vibes-driven, 30-track flood of everything Pitchfork

Playboi Carti  Music

The Atlanta rapper delivers a lot of music on his third album, with Travis Scott, Skepta, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd along for the ride musicOMH

Japanese Breakfast  For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Showcases the melancholic beauty of Zauner's songwriting, her storytelling skills honed across mediums. Print edition only Uncut

Lady Gaga  Mayhem

It’s a bold and fearless descent into deliciously chaotic party that is simultaneously heartfelt and hammed up Beats Per Minute

Circuit des Yeux  Halo On The Inside

Where Reaching for Indigo was inspired by a spiritual experience that left Fohr shaking and vomiting, then Halo on the Inside contains the entity that holds such powers over us. Its name might change, but with its horns and hooves, you will recognise it: let it inside of you! Beats Per Minute

clipping.  Dead Channel Sky

Subterranean, cinematic, and viscerally invasive, the tracks on the album undulate and modulate into a much larger and more complex whole: Listen closely, everything is important Northern Transmissions

SASAMI  Blood On the Silver Screen

This is her most accessible work yet, with shimmering moments of catharsis sprinkled throughout familiar-sounding (and sometimes forgettable) melodies Paste Magazine

Japanese Breakfast  For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Both a leap in musical maturity as well as a callback to vintage Japanese Breakfast DIY

The Horrors  Night Life

A record where The Horrors burn the midnight oil with a new intensity DIY

Japanese Breakfast  For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Michelle Zauner’s deliciously nuanced songwriting shines on the indie rockers’ bold, beautifully realised fourth album NME

Circuit des Yeux  Halo On The Inside

In the world of Circuit des Yeux, the body and the mind are always working together and always in conflict, each a vehicle and a prison for the other Spectrum Culture