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Wolf Alice  The Clearing

The band’s fourth album finds them entering cleaner, classic-rock terrain — with uneven results The FT

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

Earl is having more fun with spinning bars out of his complex experiences, be they traumatic or joyful. Even his simplistic flexes ring out louder than the hardest lyrics from mainstream rappers Consequence Of Sound

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

The album is laidback, vibe-y, and sample-heavy, with cryptic, free-associative lyrics Slant Magazine

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

As ever with Earl Sweatshirt, nothing is truly as it seems, yet he gives you more than enough information to paint in the picture. ‘Live Laugh Live’ is a rap Escher diagram, a Greek maze with MC as Minotaur; it extends Earl’s world, and invites you forward with every step Clash

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

With a sunlit disposition and paeans to his daughter, the mood turns lighter on the US MC’s sixth album – but the glitching, crashing beats are as esoteric as ever The Guardian

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

A soulful snapshot of Earl Sweatshirt’s newfound happiness as he celebrates his hard-earned peace. His subject matter is not bleak this time around, and that’s okay. Let the man be happy for once Northern Transmissions

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Stands out as a powerful sophomore record and an important step in Brown’s journey with the Nourished By Time project, pushing rock and post-punk genres to new places Northern Transmissions

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

It’s an album that confronts life’s fragility and complexity, uncovering moments of beauty even during the wreckage Northern Transmissions

Wolf Alice  The Clearing

The Clearing is Wolf Alice at their most assured: fearless, emotionally raw, and intent on carving songs that will outlast fleeting trends. A near-masterpiece XS Noize

Wolf Alice  The Clearing

The London band funnel the confusion of their early thirties into a pastiche of styles Paste Magazine

Mac DeMarco  Guitar

Guitar is a great, albeit strange, record – one that’s rewarding to follow from start to end in one sitting Spectrum Culture

Adrian Sherwood  The Collapse Of Everything

Adrian Sherwood is more than capable of bringing plenty to the party without having to rely on the big names The Arts Desk

Wolf Alice  The Clearing

Lyrically knowing and sonically eclectic, the fourth album from London four-piece Wolf Alice pushes indie-rock forward The Skinny

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

Blue Reminder’s many charms will in the end leave you helpless indeed Under The Radar

Wolf Alice  The Clearing

Wolf Alice look set to step out of the cult-status margins, not by reinventing themselves, but by turning up the volume on the brilliance that’s always been there Under The Radar