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Ethel Cain  Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

There’s so much pain and sadness that spans Hayden Anhedonia’s story, but there’s also poetry in the way it is written, and beauty in the way it’s all pieced together like one elaborate puzzle Sputnik Music (staff)

The Black Keys  No Rain, No Flowers

The Black Keys deliver infectious optimism across their thirteenth studio album The Skinny

Ethel Cain  Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

There are very few — if any other — artists creating work this obscenely profound in their mid-20s. And if she writes the score for the next Wim Wenders movie, the world will be a better place Under The Radar

Loyle Carner  hopefully!

Loyle Carner brings his trademark earnestness and affable rapping style to the forefront in a stirring record using jazz chords, breakbeat drums, and live guitars PopMatters

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

Rather than laboured, this album is patient. Rather than repetitive, it’s coherent and rather than unsure, it feels resolutely confident Far Out

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

She takes memories and splashes them around in them, a style she's made her own. Hokey, lo-fi acoustics and a fluid off-key croon add a surreal edge. Print edition only Mojo

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

If there's a knock on when i paint my masterpiece's 200-to-16 approach, it's that the album's recording style is its most cohesive trait, with the track list sometimes seeming like a Bob Dylan exercise, followed by a Frankie Cosmos op, a quasi-tango study ("dogs playing in the backyard"), etc. - xeven if that playful, adventurous spirit is also part of its charm All Music

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

With an unforced approach and humble wit, musician and visual artist Alexandra Levy reflects on creativity, community, and writing a song even Bob Dylan can’t Pitchfork

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

An intimate record full of poetic and melodic turns, giving you the impression that sometimes Levy herself is surprised by where it takes her The Line Of Best Fit

Amaarae  Black Star

Amaarae’s third album has moments of truly sublime pop magic, but only once you get past its early bloodlessness The Skinny

Amaarae  Black Star

This isn’t a pristine album. It mutates, glitches, repeats itself The Quietus

Amaarae  Black Star

It completes Amaarae’s transition from a fringe Alté artist to a future-pop icon in the making Clash

Amaarae  Black Star

Amaarae dives into love, lust and digital excess – and it’s a wild, hypnotic ride NME

Amaarae  Black Star

With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all love The Guardian

Amaarae  Black Star

The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victory lap for a star at the peak of her powers Pitchfork