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Beabadoobee  Pylon

It celebrates Midwest emo's fiery, brooding, and ultimately empowering spirit so faithfully that it's well worth shouting along to All Music

Carly Rae Jepsen  Day & Night

Day and Night's blissfully eclectic pop will convince devoted fans - and maybe even a few cynics - that happy endings still exist All Music

Echo And The Bunnymen  Apples For Isaac

It has all the passion and imagination of their early work which, when paired with the melodic gifts and flair for performing that has never flagged, makes Apples for Isaac proof that the band is still capable of making vital music, maybe even some of the best of their career All Music

Beabadoobee  Pylon

Beatrice Laus – alongside a sprawling collection of collaborators – delivers a musical reflection on loneliness and uncertainty Hot Press

Echo And The Bunnymen  Apples For Isaac

No fear of the Bunnymen trading on past glories; they’ve still got plenty in the tan Hot Press

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts  Second Song

A glorious record reflecting on life’s roads travelled Far Out

Carly Rae Jepsen  Day & Night

Jepsen’s double album finds fresh excitement in the friction between a steady voice and restless arrangements, even when its generosity outruns its editing Dork

Beck  Ride Lonesome

Beck’s orchestral return makes heartache inviting without smoothing it away, though the songs sometimes settle for a beauty the arrangements work harder to achieve Dork

Beabadoobee  Pylon

By the closing 'Satellite', she has an anthem to go with the arena dates Dork

Slow Pulp  Melodie

It's angsty, but Emily Massey's vocal floats through guitars that fuzz and swell, giving 'Melodie' the easy appeal of Alvvays or Soccer Mommy Dork

Beck  Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome puts Beck firmly into the saddle – let’s hope he’s defying expectations next time Beats Per Minute

Slow Pulp  Melodie

It’s only been 3 years since Yard but hearing Slow Pulp now feels different, like they have traded their thrifted clothes for a trendier fashion. In “Red Car” Massey sings “I need a new start,” and that’s what Melodie feels like, a new beginning, a reintroduction Northern Transmissions

Weezer  Weezer [Gold Album]

The band’s 20th studio album is the most like themselves they’ve sounded in years — for better and for worse Paste Magazine

Slow Pulp  Melodie

With Sleeping in the Aviary’s Elliott Kozel producing, the Chicago band’s third album uses solid shoegaze and alt-pop to explore how our greatest fears, wants, and needs often stay the same, even as we change Paste Magazine

Beabadoobee  Pylon

On her fourth album, Bea Laus attempts to juggle the multitudes of her mid-twenties in all their paralyzing glory and emerges with the best effort of her career thus far Paste Magazine