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Arcade Fire  Pink Elephant

Arcade Fire’s seventh album is a too-careful, too-canny exercise in restraint. It lacks the soul and spirit the band is known for Pitchfork

Mclusky  The World Is Still Here and So Are We

The Welsh punks’ first new album in 20 years channels their abrasive sound and dirtbag attitude into a critique of the ugliness of modern life Pitchfork

PinkPantheress  Fancy That

The British singer-producer’s new album is a portal into an alternate universe where UK garage blew up in America and fashion froze in 2006 Pitchfork

Sleep Token  Even In Arcadia

The masked, anonymous UK quartet might be the biggest metal band in a generation—yet their laborious, watered-down fusion of pop, rap, and djent amounts to very little Pitchfork

PUP  Who Will Look After The Dogs?

Embraces self-improvement with dialed-back hooks and urgent introspection—offering a rare example of a pop-punk band learning to age with grace Pitchfork

Kali Uchis  Sincerely

An ambitious pop artist offers a rich retro-pop exploration of family and tradition Rolling Stone

Kali Uchis  Sincerely

The singer embraces, albeit wistfully, the pleasures of stability throughout the album Slant Magazine

Kali Uchis  Sincerely

Another crowning achievement, it’s long past time we honoured Kali Uchis as a transformative R&B talent Clash

Kali Uchis  Sincerely

The Colombian-American star’s first all-English album builds its own dreamy sanctuary full of deep affection and safe from the chaos of the wider world NME

Kali Uchis  Sincerely

Uchis’ latest expresses sentiments that, if not strictly ecclesiastical, certainly come off as spiritual. Love isn’t simply something people feel. It’s something that happens to them, that shapes them, gives them definition, and maybe even has the power to redeem them or the world around them Paste Magazine

PinkPantheress  Fancy That

The fizzy Gen Z producer has big pop ambitions, but her over-reliance on samples results in a record that struggles to be more than the sum of its parts Paste Magazine

billy woods  GOLLIWOG

Full of horror and self-described Afro-pessimism, GOLLIWOG is frequently grim. And yet, it's not a difficult listen, since woods is simply too clever of a writer for him not to tickle my sense of humour Exclaim

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke  Tall Tales

A pandemic collaboration between an eclectic producer and an avant-rock singer lacks punch Spectrum Culture

billy woods  GOLLIWOG

The Brooklyn rapper’s new solo album is a twisty horrorcore masterpiece where history and nightmares are indistinguishable. The spooky backdrop is a perfect showcase for his craft Pitchfork

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke  Tall Tales

In an ever more synthetically intertwined world, Tall Tales sees Pritchard and Yorke plug into the fragility of social structures built on sand The Line Of Best Fit