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Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

Embracing simple yet infectious lyricism, impressive guitars and folksy harmonies, Starkey has created another unadulterated Americana album in ‘Long Long Road’, carving his name deeper into the hall of fame Clash

Foo Fighters  Your Favorite Toy

A band with a renewed sense of purpose, ready to use the pain of the last few years as an inspiration musicOMH

Friko  Something Worth Waiting For

Something Worth Waiting For is an album of good songs with some sequencing and balance issues. Its problems have nothing to do with quality in the traditional sense, but Friko will need to temper some of their maximalist tendencies if they want to seize the indie rock throne No Ripcord

Friko  Something Worth Waiting For

Chicago’s Friko has traded much of the symphonics of their incendiary debut for insistently straining, freewheeling indie rock riffs The Line Of Best Fit

Foo Fighters  Your Favorite Toy

Enjoyable and familiar, but Grohl's emotional crisis sets it apart Consequence Of Sound

Friko  Something Worth Waiting For

It’s hard to replicate the joy of discovery that was had with Friko’s debut, but rounding out the band and taking things up a notch make perfect sense. Not leaving their heart behind in the process, makes Something Worth Waiting For exactly that Under The Radar

Friko  Something Worth Waiting For

A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land The Skinny

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

You'd have to go back to the 1970s to find a Ringo Starr solo album that was as well-crafted with his particular skills in mind as Look Up, and Long Long Road shows Burnett and Starr continue to work together beautifully All Music

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

It’s rooted squarely in country music, with a nod to Americana Hot Press

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

It has indeed been a “long, long road,” and the thing worth celebrating is that an 85-year-old man with all the money in the world still enjoys that old-timey Americana music enough to make more of it. This album is a nice window into that joy Far Out

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

It is also, for all the Americana, an incredibly Merseyside record The Arts Desk

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young Mojo

Ringo Starr  Long Long Road

The title track ends proceedings on a high, with Sheryl Crow on backing vocals, a smattering of mandolin and a semi-surreal spoken interlude in which Starr sounds ever so zen. It ends, as it surely should, with a single snare shot, delivered like the most emphatic of full stops. Print edition only Uncut

Foo Fighters  Your Favorite Toy

The carefree attitude is a welcoming change, but there is a sense something has been left on the table The Arts Desk

Jessie Ware  Superbloom

Superbloom — the next installment in Jessie Ware’s exploration of disco — is certainly a good time, though perhaps not as transformative as its predecessors Spectrum Culture