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Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

Even a couple of bafflingly misguided social commentary songs can’t detract from the joys of Flowers’ classically full-throated commitment to the Nashville bit The Guardian

Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

While his words and voice remain smart and wry, whether you enjoy it or not will depend entirely on your liking for, or tolerance of, that genre. Print edition only Record Collector

Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

He's always been a crooner in the tradition of Waylon Jennings, and he's always had Kris Krisfofferson's nose for a tale. Print edition only Mojo

Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

Flowers' take on country hews to the proto-Americana of Springsteen and Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell as he unleashes his chromium pipes and unfettered emotionality on image-rich tales like "Plans", "Tiger's Blood" and the climactic "An American Dream". Print edition only Uncut

Lambchop  Punching The Clown

Kurt Wagner continues his exploration of the human voice while navigating a fascinating journey through musical hinterlands musicOMH

Lambchop  Punching The Clown

Sees Lambchop back in focus, Wagner taking on the big questions and the small details, always aware of those truths that lie just out of reach. Print edition only Mojo

Lambchop  Punching The Clown

Stella is a modern gospel spiritual, White People is seething and stirring, and The New World Wave is a brilliant return to the narrative style of Lambchop's earliest records. Print edition only Record Collector

Lambchop  Punching The Clown

Lambchop's 17th album is a thing of spine-tingling hymnal beauty. Print edition only Uncut

Phoebe Bridgers  Lost Weekend

It's the duality of darkness and light that makes Lost Weekend so good Hot Press

Hovvdy  Big World

It's a mercurial group of songs indicative of the songwriters' strategy, but the album still finds through lines in its heartfelt songwriting and warm, dreamy textures All Music

Hovvdy  Big World

Small songs and a step backwards Far Out

Hovvdy  Big World

Big World may not be the pinnacle of what Hovvdy has to offer, but it delivers something unique the duo had to show for ten years into their career Northern Transmissions

Hovvdy  Big World

Pop songwriters Charlie Martin and Will Taylor reset the scope of their best-known project, Hovvdy, on an album whose thematic consistency ties together sometimes imaginative, always melodious musical exploration Spectrum Culture

Hovvdy  Big World

Created after a pivotal move from Austin to Nashville, the duo’s finesse for laid-back vocal melodies that burrow into your brain is clearer and more colorful than ever Paste Magazine

Jungle  Sunshine

The London trio’s fifth album is pleasant enough to leave on, but rarely compelling enough to listen to Paste Magazine