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FLO
Access All Areas
FLO’s long-heralded debut record entertains while writing a single song 16 ways
The Skinny
Father John Misty
Mahashmashana
Mahasmashana is a triumph and return to form for Tillman, who navigates themes of impermanence, rebirth, duality of mind and body, and the passage of time, without cynicism but much needed grace—for a world that his child will inherit
Under The Radar
Chat Pile
Cool World
Retaining the band’s dark edge, it’s a vital, sweeping achievement from start to finish
Under The Radar
Kelly Lee Owens
Dreamstate
It captures dance music’s sheer kinetic high, but also the emotive undercurrents that make it so affecting. The album is a tribute to bringing dreams to life, pushing the listener to share in their heightened rush and imagine better times ahead
Under The Radar
Snoop Dogg
Missionary
While the music is big and hulking, the smaller details seem to have been glossed over
Slant Magazine
Saint Etienne
The Night
On the beloved indie-pop trio’s 11th album, world-weary acceptance and the unending march of time take shape as cloudy ambient tones and creepy nocturnal resonance
Pitchfork
Billie Eilish
Hit Me Hard And Soft
It's an ideal synthesis of the ever-developing style that Billie and Finneas have been crafting since the late 2010s on their continuing campaign to rule the music world
All Music
Vampire Weekend
Only God Was Above Us
Indian raga, hip-hop and scuzzy, Strokes-like rock replace the west African guitar sounds of old on Ezra Koenig and co’s dazzling fifth album
The Observer
Kendrick Lamar
GNX
The emcee’s sixth studio album sees him embrace and expand on his vision of fatherhood
A.V. Club
Kendrick Lamar
GNX
Able to reach an intensity that’s not been as often touched upon since 2012’s ‘Good Kid M.A.A.D City’
DIY
Cindy Lee
Diamond Jubilee
Overall, Diamond Jubilee is a compelling diamond in a year of classics that, while hurt by some issues, strives to a level of uniqueness and brilliance that makes it one of the most needed albums to listen to this year
Spill Magazine
Cindy Lee
Diamond Jubilee
The record – just like the medium of music – is doomed (or blessed) to exist in this in-between state of ghost-like liminality. Some things exist only through their non-existence, in a brief flash of time, defined through the myths we attribute to them, the outlines we long to perceive within, to imagine another, to feel ourselves
Beats Per Minute
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