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Momma  Welcome To My Blue Sky

By the time we reach the mournful ‘Take Me With You’ and closer ‘My Old Street’, Momma have proven they’re more than just revivalists – they’re storytellers who happen to speak fluent grunge Dork

Momma  Welcome To My Blue Sky

Welcome To My Blue Sky is solid collection of songs that’s shot through with some truly majestic moments, but one that doesn’t quite reach its potential Kerrang!

Momma  Welcome To My Blue Sky

The once-scrappy band has traveled the world, opened for luminaries like Death Cab for Cutie and Weezer, and dealt with the consequences of their actions. It’s safe to say they’ve wisened up. They’re not afraid to shake the table and make a mess, but Welcome to My Blue Sky does so with a refined sense of precision and intention Northern Transmissions

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 Uncut

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 Uncut