16 June 2026
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Debut full-length album from the Berlin-based electronic producer featuring production by A.G. Cook, Casey MQ, Elof Loelv, FREE Jimi, Luvhuhter, Margo XS, Nomak and Suena
7.2
NEW The album is a deliriously silly, sneakily sturdy blast of Euro-rave pop Read Review
NEW The half-human, half-horse disc jockey drops a barnstorming debut album Read Review
NEW A debut that delivers dance music with wit, warmth, and a refreshingly original vision. ‘NATURE IS HEALING’ is a playlist essential for a hot summer’s day Read Review
NEW horsegiirL’s debut could feel fragmented, with disparate sonic aesthetics jammed into a single tracklist. Yet, this stylistic whiplash forms the core of the album's distinct charm and conceptual brilliance Read Review
NEW Frolicking through 1980s new age, ’90s pop, and 2010s EDM with the promise of universal wellbeing, the masked horse-DJ’s debut LP is equally silly and sincere Read Review
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Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
In the end, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love snarls with tension, vulnerability and biting honesty. Holding your gaze and forcing you to watch is Olivia Rodrigo at her most raw, unfiltered and unaffected Hot Press
YHWH Nailgun Magazine
YHWH Nailgun’s sound has always felt like a rollercoaster; they have a penchant for getting your heart rate up suddenly and bringing it down just as quickly, with a sharp turn of a corner Northern Transmissions
Without sounding like a broken record, it’s tough to sit with the overwhelming sensations of these tracks when they are gone before even arriving. The longest track of the record however, at one minute and 36 seconds, feels the perfect length to live with The Quietus
Magazine serves as a rallying call, a war cry to rouse the dumbed-down spirit Beats Per Minute
The result, somehow, is brilliant: uncontrolled chaos, presented in the most controlled of settings The Line Of Best Fit
An 11-minute distillation of what makes them such a force DIY
Though only half the length of their 2025 breakthrough debut, the New York quartet’s second album is dense with ideas and enlivened by purpose Pitchfork
The NYC experimentalists’ second album isn't nearly as calamitous or fanged as its predecessor, but it’s still a counteragent to the modern indie-rock formula Paste Magazine
The pop ingenue’s songwriting has never been sharper or more devastating as she combines new wave and post-punk sensibilities with her near compulsive knack for hooks Paste Magazine
American Football American Football (LP4)
LP4 has a bit more pizazz, basking in the glow of its simplicity, and riding a morose wave that really leaves the listener sad someone had to suffer for this art to be designed. I mean, just look at that brutally, excruciatingly painstaking album cover Punk News
If it sometimes feels overly managed and anxious to belong to the moment, the best of it proves Rodrigo can still reach the heights of her first two records when she swings for them Exclaim
horsegiirL Nature Is Healing
horsegiirL’s debut could feel fragmented, with disparate sonic aesthetics jammed into a single tracklist. Yet, this stylistic whiplash forms the core of the album's distinct charm and conceptual brilliance Spectrum Culture
Frolicking through 1980s new age, ’90s pop, and 2010s EDM with the promise of universal wellbeing, the masked horse-DJ’s debut LP is equally silly and sincere Pitchfork
A debut that delivers dance music with wit, warmth, and a refreshingly original vision. ‘NATURE IS HEALING’ is a playlist essential for a hot summer’s day Clash
The half-human, half-horse disc jockey drops a barnstorming debut album NME
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