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Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Elverum took his time with this album. Night Palace is startling, brave, and utterly brilliant Spill Magazine

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

There is a finality to Smith’s thematic choice of words, but it is in the delivery that the urgency and desperation can really be felt as he wrestles with regret, grief, ageing, and humanity’s futile nature Northern Transmissions

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

The West Sussex legends' first album of new material since 4:13 Dream maps out the hours, minutes, seconds of our 16 years apart, playing back the sound of surviving the death of a planet, hoping that Robert Smith’s voice is there with us as the ground goes cold Paste Magazine

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

Who knows if it’s their last album, or whether there’s more to come? Let us be thankful that it’s here and just as wonderful as we dared to hope it might be God Is In The TV

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

A momentous and welcome return from a band who’ve become national treasures over their nearly 50 years in existence. Whatever the future holds, this is up there with The Cure’s finest works to date. Long may that continue Under The Radar

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

The album doesn’t feel overworked, and largely sounds like a band playing live in a room Slant Magazine

Halsey  The Great Impersonator

While there are moments of genuine honesty and emotional clarity, these are overshadowed by Halsey’s refusal to let the music breathe The Line Of Best Fit

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

Taken on its own terms it’s as urgent and compelling as ever The Quietus

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

Ultimately, Chromakopia not only showcases Tyler’s growth as an artist but also serves as a reminder that there is beauty in chaos The Quietus

Underworld  Strawberry Hotel

They’ve not exactly gone back to their roots, but they can at least turn and face themselves in a way that would have been unthinkable in the mid-1990s The Quietus

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Phil Elverum’s first Mount Eerie album in five years feels like a culmination of his work over the past 25 years, making room for all his earlier selves and sounds Pitchfork

Pom Pom Squad  Mirror Starts Moving Without Me

On her second album, Mia Berrin continues to write sugary anthems detailing early adulthood’s growing pains, but this time she trades punk for punchy, sharp-edged pop Pitchfork

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

The first new album from Robert Smith and co in 16 years offers beautiful bleakness, the sort of sorrow that you just want to bathe in musicOMH

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

‘Songs of a Lost World’ takes on ageing and death, but the band’s music stands unaffected by time The FT

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

The Grammy-winning US rapper pits soul-searching against some killer tunes, many featuring his mother, Bonita Smith The Observer