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Maria Somerville  Luster

Luster is an accomplished, affecting work that finds strength and clarity through introspection and forgiveness All Music

Maria Somerville  Luster

The Irish artist’s folk-inflected sound is both unnerving and alluring on her luxuriant second album The Guardian

Maria Somerville  Luster

On her 4AD debut, Maria Somerville redefines dreampop, goth, shoegaze and more, stitching colour into a tapestry of blacks, whites and greys The Skinny

Maria Somerville  Luster

The Irish musician’s gossamer dream pop is both mythic and real, a wild and ancient landscape in which her own figure is just barely perceptible Pitchfork

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

SUMAC and Moor Mother have taken an unprecedented approach, reexamining Afrofuturism through a deliciously dissonant and catastrophic lens, resulting in one of the year’s most essential listens Beats Per Minute

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

The Film is at its most impactful when SUMAC and Moor Mother's most obvious musical building blocks are conjoined Exclaim

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

Where Moor Mother's usual free jazz band Irreversible Entanglements give warm instrumental life to poem which are ultimately hopeful for change, Sumac offer grinding feedback symphonies. Print edition only Uncut

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

Some of the most minimal yet complex, heavy but refined music going. Print edition only Mojo

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

A full-length collaborative work from the avant-metal group and poet/sound artist that plays as a tense, panic-stricken narrative All Music

SUMAC & Moor Mother  The Film

SUMAC and Moor Mother cinematically raise the stakes on their collaborative record, The Film The Skinny

Samia  Bloodless

A circular experience that makes you want to hit ‘play’ by the time finale ‘Pants’ closes out Clash

Viagra Boys  viagr aboys

Viagra Boys’ self-titled album is a gleefully unhinged feat of epic silliness—just as musically brilliant as it is absurd, as willfully brutal as it is carefully constructed PopMatters

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

Zach Condon’s (Beirut) commission to compose music for a Swedish circus works well as an album but serves better as an artistic statement PopMatters

Self Esteem  A Complicated Woman

Taylor is a fantastic vocalist, and A Complicated Woman plays to that strength The Line Of Best Fit

Self Esteem  A Complicated Woman

With A Complicated Woman, Self Esteem proves once again that nobody else is doing what she’s doing right now – and perhaps nobody ever has God Is In The TV