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Alabama Shakes  I Must Be Dreaming

Even at their most wide-ranging, the Shakes make it all sound effortlessly cool No Ripcord

Julia Holter  Materia

Materia is best appreciated as a document of process rather than a completed thought No Ripcord

Getdown Services  Massive Champion

Unmistakably English, but way funnier and much more interesting musically than Sleaford Mods No Ripcord

Arab Strap  Half-Told Tales

Much like its name, Half-Told Tales, these deeply felt, descriptive and lived-in songs are amongst the formidable Scottish duo’s finest and most immediate work The Quietus

Mastodon  Marrow Deep

Cerebral and caustic, the structures built within the body of Marrow Deep are worth exploring The Quietus

Dexy Midnight Runners  LOVE

With its strings, slowies and lush M.O.R production, the music sometimes achieves the emotional impact it aims for The Arts Desk

Sleep  Hempispheres

The stoner-doom institution returns, minus founding guitarist Matt Pike, for a monotonous album of timid riffs and bad weed puns Pitchfork

Sleep  Hempispheres

The departure of guitarist Matt Pike doesn’t leave the stoner metal band marooned Paste Magazine

Sleep  Hempispheres

The quality of Hempispheres stands well enough to rate as a solid crossover work, leaving the depth-charged ruins of Dopesmoker and the following orbit of The Sciences behind, finding new planetary matter to dig into No Ripcord

Sleep  Hempispheres

It’s unlikely I’ll pick Hempispheres over their classics, as it’s the least overwhelming and that’s mainly what I want to experience when I listen to Sleep. However, that doesn’t mean it is not a legitimate, well-thought work by committed musicians who evidently navigate a new era Sputnik Music (staff)

Sleep  Hempispheres

The firepower Matt Pike brought to Sleep's seminal recordings is noticeably absent, but rather than replace it, Cisneros and company chose to embrace a more celestial, perhaps age-appropriate approach to getting ripped All Music

Chat Pile  Who Loves The Sun

With more of what existing devotees demand, plus a few degrees of increasing accessibility, Who Loves The Sun suggests that as the climate around them heats up, so do Chat Pile. At least the latter is a very good thing Kerrang!

Arab Strap  Half-Told Tales

Packed with caustic drama and moments of real heart, Half-Told Tales makes clear that Arab Strap are still well connected to their alt-pop alchemy that fuelled former glories, that likewise has dreamed up a fine record cementing their always unique presence in the indie world Far Out

Chat Pile  Who Loves The Sun

We’re watching the world fall apart in real time. Ever wondered what that sounded like? On Who Loves the Sun, Chat Pile expose the contradictions and controversies at the heart of the compendium of chaos with searing lyricism and exciting instrumentation Far Out

Dexy Midnight Runners  LOVE

It's a true delight that Dexys Midnight Runners are back to reclaim their place in the pop music firmament and LOVE is nothing less than a late career highlight that pales not at all when held up to their early work All Music