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Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening, but hesitant to experiment The Skinny

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

Thoughtful sixth album, which sees the songwriter wrestle with the growing challenges of life as she enters her early thirties. Print edition only Uncut

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

Singing with a sweet weariness, Kline can seem bemused by her melancholia, her resigned acceptance given an appealing warmth by a band whose gentle sway lends her pop miniatures depth. Print edition only Mojo

Lorde  Virgin

New Zealand artist channels her signature bluntness into songs about rebirth and reconnection The Independent

Lorde  Virgin

It’s a treat to hear Lorde attack some of these ideas with maturity and nuance, and many of the songs bring restrained-but-engaging sonics to match. But the final product, unfortunately, leaves the listener a bit wanting Consequence Of Sound

Lorde  Virgin

Between it’s successful sonic reinvention, which sees Lorde return to her signature synth-pop sound with songwriting untangling a multiplicity of traumas, ‘Virgin‘ cements itself as existing beyond being the ultimate reclamation record, but the soundtrack of Lorde’s rebirth Clash

Lorde  Virgin

The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet Rolling Stone

Lorde  Virgin

There’s an odd lack of ambition that has brought the mood of Virgin down The Arts Desk

U.S. Girls  Scratch It

girlsOn her ninth album as U.S. Girls, Meghan Remy grapples with and ultimately endorses a philosophy of self-preservation and space as power against the battles she’s been waging for over a decade Spectrum Culture

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard   Phantom Island

Phantom Island is King Gizz at their best producing yet another album that can not only be heralded for its precision and progression, but for once again showing how to take a bundle of diverse ingredients and transform them into a cohesive, intriguing, and overall fun experience, while remaining introspective and exploratory Sputnik Music (staff)

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

Greta Kline’s sixth record as Frankie Cosmos is another solid if slightly monotonous showcase of her brisk, pleasant brand of indie-pop, only occasionally doling out flashes of wit and unexpected stylistic flourishes Paste Magazine

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans but especially by millennials (and elder zoomers) aging alongside the beloved songwriter All Music

Lorde  Virgin

After her last album embraced switching off, the musician returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst with a strikingly unsettled sound The Guardian

Haim  I quit

The three sisters from the Valley reclaim quitting as an empowered act – and that includes shedding past sounds, not just exes The Independent

Haim  I quit

Danielle Haim’s had her heart broken, and you’re going to hear all about in the sisters’ wonderfully vituperative songs The Irish Times