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Spiritbox  Tsunami Sea

Building on a foundation of complex riffage, djent-fueled, whiplash-inducing breakdowns, and powerful lyrics rooted in personal struggle and societal discord, the assured 11-song set includes the streaming hits "Soft Spine" and "Perfect Soul" All Music

Spiritbox  Tsunami Sea

Within its destructive, voltaic, spectrum, and multi-range vocals, Tsunami Sea is more than just a swell of “unvarying” ornery sounds. It’s a potent piece of songwriting, its assertive nature engulfing one’s heartstrings until one has no choice but to feel the irritation, passion, and emotional purging that surrounds this record Spill Magazine

Baxter Dury  Allbarone

It's a potent start, but Allbarone gets better, deeper, more engaging and – crucially – stranger with each track, with Dury’s half-muttered speak-song voice mutating into more and more enticingly contorted shapes with each successive track The Line Of Best Fit

Baxter Dury  Allbarone

His most compelling album in almost a decade. Print edition only Record Collector

Baxter Dury  Allbarone

Same old boots, maybe, but significantly racier kecks. Print edition only Mojo

Baxter Dury  Allbarone

Things are really supercharged here by Epworth's electronic touch. It's a highly potent and undeniably successful combination. Print edition only Uncut

Baxter Dury  Allbarone

It’s not often you’ll hear of an artist making the best work of their career by their eighth album. However, with Baxter Dury's latest effort Allbarone, this couldn’t be truer The Skinny

Big Thief  Double Infinity

It’s quite possible this album will be trashed by critics as the least of their oeuvre, but then every person who proudly proclaims this to be their favourite of Big Thief’s discography will have some very interesting stories to tell Beats Per Minute

Suede  Antidepressants

Easily gliding into the tier of Suede’s best albums, Antidepressants is a collection of exciting, moving and sometimes anthemic post-punk flavored songs about loneliness and communication, age and vulnerability, featuring some of Brett Anderson’s best ever vocal performances Spectrum Culture

Saint Etienne  International

With International, these pop academics have left us with one final lesson: if you must fade away, do so gracefully. Saint Etienne most certainly have PopMatters

Jehnny Beth  You Heartbreaker, You

Awash in menacing, libidinous energy, the Savages singer’s new solo album asks: What if the psychosexual angst of post-punk and industrial music were harnessed for pleasure? Pitchfork

Justin Bieber  SWAG II

Part two of Bieber’s seventh album adds very little: it’s largely bland pop with glimpses of quality thanks to a buzzy supporting cast including Dijon and Bakar The Guardian

Justin Bieber  SWAG II

Bieber follows the surprisingly good Swag with the depressingly safe Swag II Rolling Stone

Justin Bieber  SWAG II

Bieber drops off another 23 tracks’ worth of SWAG, his Dijon- and Mk.gee-assisted foray into alt-R&B. Bland and underwritten, the sequel magnifies the weaknesses of the original Pitchfork

Justin Bieber  SWAG II

Consumed as a whole, the 23-track ‘SWAG II’ is a means to monopolise the streaming charts for the remainder of this year and beyond. What should have been a passion project distilled and edited into a leaner whole, now feels like a ploy to be omnipresent Clash