14 November 2026
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Dance producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm teams up with fellow Norwegian singer Christabelle in his latest beat-heavy project
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Their unrestrained approach works with track after track, going higher and further than what has just gone before. Prepare for takeoff Read Review
The long-form disco don has made an instant-hit, Saturday night album that anyone could love. In fact, Real Life Is No Cool offers no other option Read Review
If the thought of 28-minute-long disco jams doesn’t appeal, it’s also a great place for the uninitiated to encounter this masterful producer Read Review
Real Life Is No Cool isn't just the achingly stylish and neatly accessible dance record ... it also constitutes a fresh new take on the strand of retro-futurism that Lindstrøm helped create Read Review
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We have been blessed with an embraceable record from a contemporary dance music auteur and a partner who proves a skilful wingwoman Read Review
... his take on 1980s funk-pop is exhilaratingly woozy, psychedelic and strange, never sliding into retro pastiche. An object lesson in less being more Read Review
Real Life Is No Cool has a thoroughly modern spirit while still managing to coalesce decades of dance music into one fluid statement Read Review
A little more consistency in their focus and less pointlessly meandering distraction could see them produce something truly classic Read Review
...obviously in debt to mainstream legends such as Prince (on Keep It Up) and Michael Jackson (on Baby Can’t Stop, an unashamed pastiche of the Off the Wall sound) Read Review
...her voice is smooth, versatile and - listen up X-Factor contestants! - never needlessly showy
Moroder had the divine presence of Donna Summer, whereas Lindstrøm has Christabelle Isabelle Sandoo Read Review
An album that wildly oscillates between discordance and boredom Read Review
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Lindstrom & Christabelle : Real Life Is No Cool
U2 Carnaval de Luz
This is not a radical reinvention of Rattle And Hum-to-Achtung Baby magnitude, or even a wilful evolution akin to that from How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to No Line On Th Horizon. The ghosts of U2's past are summoned in numbers, though they are frequently mischievously partnered to interestingly incongruous effect. Print edition only Uncut
The Irish legends' best work in 25 years homages their eras, brings Brian Eno to bear on keys and even wheels out the late Dolly Parton musicOMH
Royal Blood Dead Company
It’s a record that sounds exactly like you would hope a new Royal Blood album would sound like, it’s little wonder that they are as big as they are, a consistently fine listen God Is In The TV
Kings Of Leon O My Beloved
With Carnaval De Luz they are not reinventing themselves or trying to be the current flavour of the month. What they do with this album is revisit their older glories and create new music and sound Spill Magazine
U2 return with a defiant and celebratory record that captures them still at the height of their powers Hot Press
This is Lorelei The Singer In My Band
Nate Amos fills his latest album with other people’s stories: some linger, others get lost in the scenery Still Listening
Out for blood! Brighton bruisers Royal Blood blast back-to-basics on fifth album Kerrang!
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher floor the accelerator and embark on another collision course of energised and uncompromising riff-rock for album number five NME
Dead Company is arguably the best album they’ve released since their debut, but doesn’t exactly come close to topping it Sputnik Music (staff)
Royal Blood's latest album is competently made and frequently enjoyable, but almost entirely foreseeable The Skinny
There are no frills on this fifth set, once again self-produced by Kerr and Thatcher; instead, it provides a brisk hard rock assault that should please the faithful and entice newcomers to dig into their back catalog All Music
Bono and co. return to full strength with a celebration of hope over despair Mojo
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
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Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways