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James Ellis Ford  Lost In Another World

Tender, vulnerable and brutally honest Far Out

James Ellis Ford  Lost In Another World

Whether made in a hospital bed, a million-dollar studio or an abandoned warehouse, ‘Lost In Another World’ is raw, rare and radiant — regardless of the world one is lost in Clash

James Ellis Ford  Lost In Another World

It never resorts to heavy-handedness in conveying just how serious the days that it was made felt to Ford, and somehow transforms a life-shaking brush with a potentially fatal illness into something uplifting. At times, Ford even miraculously pulls joy and understanding from the horrors that inspired these songs All Music

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 Record Collector

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 Uncut

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 Uncut

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 Uncut

Getdown Services  Massive Champion

It is daft, not 'zany'. There is enough substance here to go far beyond the gags. Print edition only Record Collector

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