Pillow Queens
Name Your Sorrow
Grounding like the first sting of cold air on a fresh spring morning, ‘Name Your Sorrow’ is for the tired, tender hearts who, despite it all, keep on hoping. Pillow Queens have produced yet another triumph
Dork
St. Vincent
All Born Screaming
Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight
The Independent
Waxahatchee
Tigers Blood
While Waxahatchee has never sounded more suited for sprawling crowds and mass approval, Crutchfield has never seemed truer to herself
Uncut
St. Vincent
All Born Screaming
The singer-songwriter’s latest record focuses less on role playing and more on exploring extreme states of mind
The FT
Fat White Family
Forgiveness Is Yours
Even when they don’t quite hit the mark, they remain a curiously compelling act who play by their own rules – chaos remains their lifeblood, for good and for bad
musicOMH
Fat White Family
Forgiveness Is Yours
A certain rock'n'roll energy is lacking. Print edition only
Mojo
Fat White Family
Forgiveness Is Yours
Forgiveness Is Yours sometimes becomes too diffuse, hampered by a surplus of bold ideas that do not get all the necessary follow-through. But it Abounds with queasy pleasures all the same. Print edition only
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Fat White Family
Forgiveness Is Yours
There is certainly the sense of Forgiveness Is Yours as a feet finding record, an undeniable result of losing one of the essential reasons Fat White Family are what they are
The Line Of Best Fit
Fat White Family
Forgiveness Is Yours
The band creates an undercurrent of anxiety with mismatched rhythms, drum fills, and subtle dissonance
Slant Magazine
Iron & Wine
Light Verse
Finds Beam doing what he does best, refining those songwriting touches and instrumental backdrops that are present in his most captivating work
Under The Radar
Iron & Wine
Light Verse
You might assume, given the title, that beam's seventh full-length album as iron & Wine is lightweight and whimsical. Actually it's pretty magnificent. Print edition only
Mojo
Iron & Wine
Light Verse
Light Verse rejoices in its playful details. Print edition only
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