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Mitski
Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Her eighth album is one that only she could make: strange, otherworldly and yet immediately accessible and addictive
musicOMH
Iron & Wine
Hen's Teeth
The delicate, technicolour tracks on Sam Beam’s eighth album see him consolidate his reputation as a songwriter of distinction
musicOMH
Mitski
Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Mitski’s homebound eighth album is both theatrical and restrained, responding to her newfound visibility with sober reflections on loneliness and delusion
Pitchfork
Peaches
No Lube So Rude
Pearl clutchers beware: The electro-punk icon’s first album in a decade revels in raunch — as good dirty fun, but also as a celebration of human desires, human needs, and human rights
Pitchfork
Peaches
No Lube So Rude
Peaches returns with an album full of bangers and more than a few profanities – but does it all get a bit one note sometimes?
The Quietus
Mitski
Nothing's About to Happen to Me
When you’re consistently serving up brilliantly written songs that sound great and are performed with panache, that’s not a formula, that’s just being very good at your job
The Line Of Best Fit
Gorillaz
The Mountain
The Mountain feels deeper and more emotionally resonant than any of its predecessors: for all the project’s other merits, it’s rarely been appropriate to describe Gorillaz as beautiful, profound or moving
The Line Of Best Fit
Bill Callahan
My Days of 58
Though still working with the materials of human life – relationships, states of mind, creative impulses – he recognizes the transience and/or emptiness at the heart of everything. The search for wisdom has become Callahan’s raison d’etre
The Line Of Best Fit
Mitski
Nothing's About to Happen to Me
It’s a terrific work, thematically rich and containing some of the most precise and emotionally devastating songwriting of her career
Consequence Of Sound
Iron & Wine
Hen's Teeth
The album’s highest points may justify a certain excitement, as the artist is clearly still experimenting and expanding stylistically, always a welcome sign from someone as historically daring and luminous as Mr. Beam
Under The Radar
Iron & Wine
Hen's Teeth
The whole album is fantastic and slots right in with Iron and Wine’s extensive discography of instant classics, well worth a listen for any discerning fan of modern folk
God Is In The TV
Gorillaz
The Mountain
Even in its most contemplative moments, the album avoids becoming heavy or distant
The Arts Desk
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