DIIV
ZIRP!
A gorgeous and at times haunting shoegaze evolution
Clash
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
These jams meander into stoned whimsey at times but the journey is never boring. Print edition only
Uncut
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
Ishmael Butler delivers a mixture of swampy arrangements, surreal vocal production and vintage braggadocio feels distinctive, coherent, and fun
musicOMH
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
Ishmael Butler explores the cosmos within on a shadowy and uncharacteristically introspective new album
Pitchfork
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
Ishmael Butler’s Shabazz Palaces project moves through time, space and genre on It’s a Style Sport, extending his relevance for another generation of listeners
Spectrum Culture
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
Ishmael Butler’s latest transforms a lifetime of flyness into a moral code, then puts it on trial
Slant Magazine
Shabazz Palaces
It’s A Style Sport
Ishmael Butler is a cosmically liberated and confident virtuoso on one of this year’s rap achievements
Paste Magazine
PISS
You Made Me / Skin on Linen
This cathartic scream of unflinching feminist rage might be the most thrilling, challenging and important album to be released this year
musicOMH
DIIV
ZIRP!
The shoegaze band teams with producer A. G. Cook for its most pop-leaning record yet. Despite some welcome shifts in tone, the best moments sound like no one but DIIV
Pitchfork
Johnny Marr
The Age of Everything
The melodies here are sharper than on any of his previous solo outings
The Quietus
Queens Of The Stone Age
Perfecth
Josh Homme turns personal struggles into a cinematic, psychedelic, and unexpectedly hopeful return to form
Consequence Of Sound
Queens Of The Stone Age
Perfecth
Taking a more introspective tone, the band's latest LP offers a toned down, introspective version of their modern hard-rock
Rolling Stone