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These New Puritans  Crooked Wing

All in all, it underlines that These New Puritans remains a band apart. Print edition only Mojo

These New Puritans  Crooked Wing

Five albums in, These New Puritans are still finding new ways to startle and surprise. Print edition only Record Collector

These New Puritans  Crooked Wing

Contains some of their most objectively beautiful songs. Print edition only Uncut

Stereolab  Instant Holograms On Metal Film

While the lyrics are typically sharp, reflecting righteously on "Systemic Extortion", the parlous state of truth and more, the music unspools along almost cosily familiar tracks. Print edition only Record Collector

Stereolab  Instant Holograms On Metal Film

This is a record that more frequently speaks and embodies the language of connection, of entwining and union, the clash between hard-edged politics and the beautiful fractals of their music less stringently juxtaposed than in earlier work. Print edition only Mojo

Stereolab  Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Offers a kind of manual on how to resist the negativity and reconnect with society. Alternatively, it's another super-fun Stereolab album full of obscure synth blurps, nifty lounge-pop tunes and gnarly motorik wig-outs. Print edition only Uncut

Sports Team  Boys These Days

This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best Dork

Sports Team  Boys These Days

Skewering the absurdities of modern British life atop a backdrop of good old-fashioned guitar music DIY

Tune-Yards  Better Dreaming

Better Dreaming is Tune-Yards at fighting weight, the chaos and clatter of their early years pared down until the noise fits the songs, rather than the other way around Spectrum Culture

Sports Team  Boys These Days

Their songs are often ironic observations of the world they’re perceived to inhabit The Arts Desk

Stereolab  Instant Holograms On Metal Film

There’s still some 'motorik' Krautrock relentlessness but the overwhelming mood here is of retro-pop sweetness and light The Arts Desk

Sparks  MAD!

Another fantastic addition to the bands back catalogue and builds the excitement for their live UK show in June and July even further God Is In The TV

These New Puritans  Crooked Wing

Southend-on-Sea brothers These New Puritans return after six years, and they're still the rulers of their own murky hinterland The Skinny

Sports Team  Boys These Days

Their kaleidoscopic songwriting and shotgun use of styles mirror the confusion of just how weird the world has become, and somehow their surrealism makes sense of it all Under The Radar

Sparks  MAD!

In an act of revisiting origins and relacquering their sound with each new release, MAD! conforms to what’s expected in its own off-kilter idiom, insomuch as any Sparks album can be reasonably defined The Line Of Best Fit