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Arca  XXXXX

The Venezuelan artist’s latest LP harks back to her experimental mixtapes &&&&& and @@@@@, trading the KiCK series’ pop and reggaeton impulses for confrontational, uncompromising electronic sounds Pitchfork

Arca  XXXXX

The album may be a tad amorphous, but it’s never dull Slant Magazine

Arca  XXXXX

The Venezuela-born, Barcelona-based polymath is at home in distortion on her most probing project in years NME

Arca  XXXXX

A return to form, on par with the brilliance of her early mixtapes Clash

Arca  XXXXX

In the follow-up to her Kick series, Arca jumbles the building blocks of electronic music to create a beautiful, disorienting sound world The Guardian

Ariana Grande  petal

Despite some minor sonic surprises, the pop superstar’s latest offering is strangely dull and muted, lacking the personality, sensuality, and energy of her previous work Paste Magazine

The Durutti Column  Renascent

Renascent offers newcomers to Vini Reilly’s work the chance to experience pretty much every aspect of what he does in one relatively short album. It’s beautiful, atmospheric and accomplished, but perhaps just a little too eclectic for its own good Spectrum Culture

The Durutti Column  Renascent

This return is graceful and emotionally resonant in very turbulent times The Line Of Best Fit

Shania Twain  Little Miss Twain

More than anything, Little Miss Twain is a love letter to Shania Twain’s late mother, who acted as something of a manager when she first began performing PopMatters

Ariana Grande  petal

Even the instrumentation is ghostly, soaked in reverb and with Grande’s vocals layered and echoing across each song. You desperately want something substantial to cling onto, but it’s always out of reach The Independent

Ariana Grande  petal

Grande reaches for darker, more experimental territory, but uneven writing and restrained vocals prevent it from fulfilling its promise Consequence Of Sound

Ariana Grande  petal

Grande withdraws inwards on uneasy, distant eighth studio album, amid intense tabloid and social media scrutiny NME

Ariana Grande  petal

Rage is all over the pop superstar’s eighth LP, Petal — and it suits her Rolling Stone

Ariana Grande  petal

The album shows flashes of incisiveness but can’t overcome its self-imposed limitations Slant Magazine

Ariana Grande  petal

Casting herself as a flower trampled underfoot, the superstar’s eighth album swaps the ?glitz of her Wicked years ?f?or dark blooms of haunted electronics The Guardian