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Shame  Cutthroat

Cutthroat offers some exhilarating moments, including the title track, but is also a problematic release Beats Per Minute

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

An album pulling in opposite directions musically and thematically could easily have proven misguided, trying and obtuse, yet under Smith’s guidance, it proves an intriguing, tantalizing, and surprising natural fit Beats Per Minute

David Byrne  Who Is The Sky

Byrne is bold with his new album, breaking away from the ordinary and presenting the strange as something beautiful and intriguing. It is this boldness that makes him who he is and that’s no secret Northern Transmissions

Shame  Cutthroat

Cutthroat may lack the emotional vulnerability of its predecessor, but none of its songs are devoid of thrills. The album is bold and brash, making a great argument for shame to reach the global level of stardom they've been flirting with for the past decade Paste Magazine

Big Thief  Double Infinity

It's their most gentle collection of music so far, and yet, that heaviness the band initially longed for permeates the album Exclaim

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

The Hives’ seventh studio album doesn't reinvent the band’s sound, but it does emphasize a penchant for rage and profanity that's more often lurked on the fringes of their music Spectrum Culture

David Byrne  Who Is The Sky

David Byrne’s purple patch continues. Who is the Sky? is a more than worthy follow-up to American Utopia – less expansive, more personal but perhaps even more involving and just as life-affirming Spectrum Culture

Shame  Cutthroat

You can tell a Shame record from a hundred paces but that apple has rolled down the orchard, out the gate, down the road, through several 80’s nightclubs, into a record shop and the listening booths, through a pub and out into the micro brewery to be squashed and turned into cider. Industrial strength cider God Is In The TV

The Beths  Straight Line Was A Lie

Straight Line Was a Lie is a remarkable record that epitomises why the band is so special. They hit the ground running almost a decade ago and haven’t faltered one bit God Is In The TV

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Nourished By Time is not only on time—he’s ahead, he’s behind, he’s exactly what we need in the present moment: a voice for the ones that never had a chance to develop theirs Under The Radar

Suede  Antidepressants

On balance, Antidepressants seems to be a record Suede have been aching to make for years, maybe even decades. However, with all the turbulence and uncertainty that surrounds us right now this feels like the perfect supplement to soothe the pain and anxieties of the real world Under The Radar

Saint Etienne  International

The sophisticated U.K. pop trio say goodbye at their height of their power with International Rolling Stone

Suede  Antidepressants

If Autofiction was the first entry in a new triptych, considering the same themes at a more mature stage of life, then Antidepressants is a fine middle panel: a warp of the formula that is considered and progressive, if not as immediately thrilling The Quietus

Suede  Antidepressants

Suede turn the memento mori into a carpe diem. Yes, Suede are middle-aged, but they are refusing to lament, stagnate, or be nostalgic PopMatters

Saint Etienne  International

With its 13th and final album, the trio is determined to go out with a bang, once more mapping dance music’s energies onto tender feelings of longing, optimism, and nostalgia Pitchfork