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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

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

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

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

Magazine serves as a rallying call, a war cry to rouse the dumbed-down spirit Beats Per Minute

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

The result, somehow, is brilliant: uncontrolled chaos, presented in the most controlled of settings The Line Of Best Fit

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

An 11-minute distillation of what makes them such a force DIY

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

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

YHWH Nailgun  Magazine

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

Olivia Rodrigo  You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

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

Olivia Rodrigo  You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

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

horsegiirL  Nature Is Healing

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

horsegiirL  Nature Is Healing

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

horsegiirL  Nature Is Healing

The half-human, half-horse disc jockey drops a barnstorming debut album NME