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S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

Stylistically, no big changes, after all, there was no need for those, but the level of the songwriting has gone up a few notches, both lyrically and musically Spill Magazine

Hotline TNT  Raspberry Moon

Overall, Hotline TNT continues their hot streak with Raspberry Moon. You will probably not come across a better shoegaze power pop record this year Spill Magazine

S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

The singer-songwriter depicts her Kentucky home with tactile clarity, populating her roots-rock songs with wry observations of small-town life Pitchfork

S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

If the Kentuckian’s third album is constitutionally about wrangling one’s grief, it’s likewise about accepting its circumstances, agonizingly beyond our control as they are Paste Magazine

S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

Her finest work yet. Print edition only Record Collector

S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

Has an unhurried Southern swing that pulls like an undertow against the emotional freight of confessional songs like Solitaire and Nature's Child. Print edition only Mojo

S.G. Goodman  Planting By The Signs

Every bit as special as promised. Print edition only Uncut

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

Lyrics flow from self-interrogation to political pride to intimacy to outright joy The Arts Desk

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

Doesn't sound quite as home-made and fingerprint-smudged as Bey's lo-fi previous recordings, there's still no-one who sounds like her, no-one chronicling the agony and ecstasy with her unguarded and resonant vision. Print edition only Mojo

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

On her latest album, the Brooklyn rapper, singer, and producer chronicles the labor of finding and holding onto joy in relaxed, loosely structured songs that evoke backyards and block parties Pitchfork

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

Only someone familiar with the maze of despair could sing this achingly of paradise The Line Of Best Fit

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

By linking up wuth the most expansive list of collaborators she’s tapped to date (BADBADNOTGOOD, Exaktly and Butcher Brown are among the producers), it also finds her weaving through arguably the most layered, fine musical backdrops she’s yet presented Beats Per Minute

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

On her sixth album, the Queens native moves through tangled emotions and shifting selves, finding power in vulnerability Paste Magazine

Yaya Bey  Do It Afraid

Another impelling triumph from a thriving musical dynamo All Music

Patrick Wolf  Crying The Neck

It doesn’t just command you to listen, it inhabits your whole being. I don’t think I could ever just listen to one song here and there from Crying The Neck. It’s absolutely one of those you simply have to play from start to finish every time God Is In The TV