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Sam Fender
People Watching
This album is a quintessential Sam Fender experience – a heartfelt, homegrown immersion of the mundane and extraordinary people and places this dweller was lucky enough to know
Clash
Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream
Incorporates elements of all prior iterations of Powers, restoring a lusher, full-band palette bedded in synthesizers and fuzz, but also incorporating svelter moments and plenty of tape audio from those home movies
All Music
Sam Fender
People Watching
Where his previous album revealed Fender to be a songwriter of depth, People Watching explores life’s ugliness and finds excellence
The Observer
Mandrake Handshake
Earth-Sized Worlds
This is a debut that is hard to describe and that works in its favour, it is a fascinating listen that defies categorisation but never derails
Clash
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
An album that across its 12 tracks serves as an ambitious and complete evolution of what The Wombats are. Direct and electric, that status isn’t just secure – it’s getting bigger
Dork
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
Oh! The Ocean is one of the best albums of the year so far
God Is In The TV
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
The Wombats’ Oh! The Ocean struggles with authenticity, balancing earnestness and self-critique, yet hints at untapped artistic potential
PopMatters
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
What may be The Wombats' most plain fun album to date. Print edition only
Uncut
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
The Liverpool trio prove there’s (some) life after indie obscurity
musicOMH
The Wombats
Oh! The Ocean
Their sound is coated in a new varnish which leaves the listener feeling as rejuvenated as the band
Clash
Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream
Rarely Do I Dream is vital and exciting, and shows its audience, maybe for the first time, a Trevor Powers with a solid foundation and lots of gas in the tank
Under The Radar
Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream
Trevor Powers’ new album under his beloved moniker is a collection of music filled with kind self-reflection and hopeful imagination where the Boise singer-songwriter approaches the totality of life’s small, digitized and grainy moments by showcasing and scattering them across irresistible melodies and buttery piano leads
Paste Magazine
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