James Ellis Ford
Lost In Another World
The producer known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, Geese, and more recorded his second solo album while undergoing chemotherapy. It is surreal, tender, and achingly poignant
Pitchfork
James Ellis Ford
Lost In Another World
Creatively sure-footed while emotionally delicate, it's a powerful document of human vulnerability. Print edition only
Mojo
James Ellis Ford
Lost In Another World
The vocals are close and intimate, the music surprisingly fleshed out and poppy. The album captures the ennui of chronic illness, and while it stares into the void, it still elicits hope. Print edition only
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James Ellis Ford
Lost In Another World
"Silver Lining" offers calm positivity, and "The Ever After" even guides us cautiously towards the dancefloor, before he touchingly concedes to sentimentality on closing ballad "This Will All Be A Memory Soon". Print edition only
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James Ellis Ford
Lost In Another World
Lost In Another World, then, is an impressively put together DIY electronic album that takes us under the covers of the hospital bed, lying around endlessly with just your thoughts to entertain you, punctuated by sundry temperature readings, injections that you barely notice, as well as the semidiurnal arrival of trays of inedible food
The Quietus
Laura Veirs
Temple Songs
On "No Masters", romantic contentment mixes with the 19th-century feminist-inspired disavowal of internal male subjugation in favour of a manifesto of self-sufficiency, emphasised by electric guita. Print edition only
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Laura Veirs
Temple Songs
There might be deliberate ambient intrusions and undeleted imperfections, but there is something very intentional going on here, the sense they ae made by somebody carving out space in the jostle of everyday life, consciously taking the time to step away and check in with yourself. Print edition only
Mojo
Getdown Services
Massive Champion
An album that remains delightfully impossible to predict from beginning to end. Print edition only
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Getdown Services
Massive Champion
It is daft, not 'zany'. There is enough substance here to go far beyond the gags. Print edition only
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Getdown Services
Massive Champion
Some of the more niche references might fly over the heads of non-UK listeners, but regardless of whether you know the Cha Cha Slide dance or who Baby Oleg is, the pair's personality and sense of humour make Massive Champion a winner. Print edition only
Mojo
Phoebe Bridgers
Lost Weekend
A dense, introspective opus as complex and unpredictable as its author
DIY
Ravyn Lenae
Blue Island
Even if it's hard to imagine anything on Blue Island blowing up as much as "Love Me Not" did, the album continues Lenae's run of strong, adventurous records
All Music