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CMAT  EURO-COUNTRY

Smartly juxtaposes the traditional and the modern: pedal steel and breakbeats, or folk fiddles with a doof – as she details life as it is actually lived, thoughts as they are actually thought Record Collector

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

It’d take a cold, cold heart not to be energised by this DIY

Water From Your Eyes  It’s A Beautiful Place

If there’s any musical justice in the world, It’s a Beautiful Place will finally be the gust that pushes Water From Your Eyes into the adoration musicians this talented so richly deserve Spectrum Culture

Maroon 5  Love Is Like

Recent Maroon 5 offerings have come across as solo Adam Levine records with a rag-tag collective of ensemble musicians, but Love Is Like is a band album in the truest sense of the word Spectrum Culture

Alice Cooper  The Revenge Of Alice Cooper

An excellent original band comeback. It sounds as if 50 years have disappeared in the blink of an eye Under The Radar

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

There's barely a track above three-minutes as it charges along with spiky intent, bursting with energy. Print edition only Uncut

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

Give or take a couple diversions (Bad Call, Legalize Living) into stomping 70s glam, the Swedes deliver the usual hi-jinks with the remorselessness of an overwound clockwork toy. Print edition only Record Collector

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

The title track, inspired by the band's current motto, is a powerful evocation of The Strokes going electro, while Path Of Most Resistance taps a kooky, Devo-ish guitar hook. If Your gym playlist needs refreshing, look no further. Print edition only Mojo

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

The Hives have been around a quarter of a century. So while they’re nobody’s new favourite band now, good luck in finding an old one that’s this much fun Kerrang!

Earl Sweatshirt  Live Laugh Love

Songs shift between playful and heroic, introspective and outright transcendent The Quietus

Deftones  Private Music

There’s something vampiric about Private Music. It’s the sound of something irreparably lost and grieved The Quietus

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Marcus Brown’s remarkable new album beefs up his airy, omnivorous R&B, searching for a sound tough enough to sustain the daily grind and big enough to keep the dream alive Pitchfork

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

Reuniting with co-producer Richard X, Alison Goldfrapp taps into airbrushed textures, shivery synth grooves, and sensual cosmic awakenings Pitchfork

The Hives  The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

With humour, imagination, and an impeccable musicianship that few can rival, the Swedes remain riotously irrepressible musicOMH

Wolf Alice  The Clearing

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