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The Last Dinner Party  From The Pyre

A solid step forward for one of the UK’s most theatrical rising acts – sonically mature, thematically precise, and with many more dinner parties to be had Hot Press

Brandi Carlile  Returning To Myself

With 11 Grammys already to her name, who would bet against Carlile hoovering up more golden trophies with this supremely confident collection? Hot Press

The Lemonheads  Love Chant

Recorded in his adopted home of Brazil, it’s produced by Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Apollo Nove, and the production is unusual, some of the arrangements sounding decidedly unfinished Hot Press

The Charlatans  We Are Love

The nostalgic ‘Glad You Grabbed Me’ sees Burgess looking back on his wild days (“Do you remember taking acid in Cambridge?”), while the epic sway of album closer, ‘Now Everything’, weighs in at just under seven minutes of gospel-tinged brilliance, which recalls Blur’s magnificent ‘Tender’ – and is worthy of such exalted company Hot Press

Daniel Avery  Tremor

Overall, a terrifically adventurous collection Hot Press

Lily Allen  West End Girl

West End Girl may at times have all the romance of a car crash, but it is, nonetheless, Lily Allen – in all her blazing glory. And damn, it really is glorious stuff, reconfirming Allen’s unique and brilliant talent. An essential listen Hot Press

Rosalía  Lux

This is the work of a woman born to create. Lux is the kind of album that might, and should, go down in history Hot Press

Cate Le Bon   Michelangelo Dying

This latest effort confirms Le Bon as one of contemporary music's most compelling songwriters, someone who understands that repetition can become transcendence when executed with sufficient conviction and artistry Earmilk

Geese  Getting Killed

Geese has shed their earlier skins completely, emerging as a band capable of anything Earmilk

Sudan Archives  The BPM

Parks has composed a dance floor bible that demands and handsomely repays body and mind labor, demonstrating they don't have to be at odds Earmilk

Rosalía  Lux

LUX confirms Rosalía as one of contemporary music's most fearless innovators Earmilk

Rosalía  Lux

Nothing short of magnificent DIY

Oneohtrix Point Never  Tranquilizer

Lopatin doesn’t just wring moments of grin-inducing audacity from the archive, though, but a startling degree of emotional range too The Quietus

Oneohtrix Point Never  Tranquilizer

Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overload The Guardian

Whitney  Small Talk

Rather than a retreat, Small Talk finds Whitney soldiering on in their quest to retool their overall sound, only in more subtle ways Spectrum Culture