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Bloc Party  Anatomy Of A Brief Romance

Bloc Party’s new album is catchy in the worst possible way: strange, irritating and hard to shake for all the wrong reasons Still Listening

Teenage Fanclub  Do Not Dare To Dream

The key term here is immediate, as Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley who keep holding the Teenage Fanclub ship have gone for a more layered concept here, instinctively or intentionally, as the listeners have to keep peeling the layers to get to the essence here, and that peeling is quite worth every listener’s time Spill Magazine

Cameron Winter  Live at Carnegie Hall

Live at Carnegie Hall inevitably calls back to the great artists who have graced that stage before him, though the pensiveness of the recording is equally impactful, capturing Cameron Winter staying true to his nature Northern Transmissions

Troye Sivan  She's The Best

The Australian singer broadens the sexy, sultry queer pop formula he cultivated on his last record, but loses some of its novelty and edge as he strains to go bigger and outdo himself Paste Magazine

Fontaines D.C.  Dopamine Chamber

As Dublin’s finest reach stadium level, album five dives deeper into the extremes of ‘Romance’ for a dark but exhilarating reflection of end times NME

Remi Wolf  Mud

Wolf shines through Mud thanks to the album's ambiguities and complexities. Much like a mud bath, it's messy — but ultimately healing Exclaim

Johnny Marr  The Age of Everything

The Age of Everything isn’t the first of Johnny Marr’s solo albums to be able to stand on its own merits, but it’s the one that does it most confidently, a polished, consistent record on which he becomes a singer and guitarist rather than a singing guitarist Spectrum Culture

Pet Shop Boys  A Man from the Future

There couldn’t be a more perfect band to realise this tragic story in music The Arts Desk

Pet Shop Boys  A Man from the Future

Only Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe could have made this concept album exploring the life of codebreaking genius Alan Turing, which updates their 2014 prom with spoken words and revised music musicOMH

Pet Shop Boys  A Man from the Future

What took Pet Shop Boys so long to release this wonderful album? The Irish Times

Pet Shop Boys  A Man from the Future

It is a piece of faultless art and a perfectly pitched tribute to one man and his achievements, whose crushingly sad story of how the world can treat a man who changed the world, could have been delivered by no other act God Is In The TV

Fontaines D.C.  Dopamine Chamber

After the surreal technicolour dreams of 'Romance', Fontaines D.C. have landed back on Earth to dissect our fractured reality. The result is something truly special Rolling Stone UK

Troye Sivan  She's The Best

There are certainly pleasures to be found on the album, but the singer himself seems to get lost Slant Magazine

Teenage Fanclub  Do Not Dare To Dream

The latest album from the Scottish band settles into pleasant but predictable folk-rock doldrums Pitchfork

Johnny Marr  The Age of Everything

It is an unpretentious record from one of the UK’s most influential guitar players, and all the more effective for it No Ripcord