24 March 2026
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Fourth album and second since changing their name from Reading Rainbow from the Philadelphia-based noise pop quartet
6.3
With Interrupt, Bleeding Rainbow come closer to melding their own voice to the influences of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr., and the entire canon of '90s rock icons that continue to fuel their creative fires Read Review
From start to finish the album is unrelenting, rapid and barbarous – a fine example of well constructed pop-punk, which leans lopsided on the side of punk Read Review
It's clear that Bleeding Rainbow wear their influences on their sleeves, and the only problem with Interrupt is that sometimes it feels like its tracks can too easily be categorised between '90s alt-rock and shoegaze Read Review
These guys may not be the most graceful outfit out there, but they are surprisingly scrappy, and they've picked themselves up from a couple of minor faceplants with aplomb Read Review
It’s a fun album but its only real moments of brilliance are when it gets grungier and dirtier than a flannel shirt caked in mud, and that’s just not often enough Read Review
If it seems like every band I compare Bleeding Rainbow to comes from the ’90s, well, that’s not a coincidence. Bleeding Rainbow are carrying the torch for the punchy, guitar-based bands of that era Read Review
A little less navel-gazing, and 'Interrupt' could be perfect. And in any case, there's still a brilliant EP in there, hidden among the fuzz Read Review
Most of the time, the choruses ring out strong enough, but a couple (like the overpowered “Out of Line”) get a bit lost Read Review
Precious little of the album is substantial Read Review
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Bleeding Rainbow: Interrupt
Ladytron Paradises
Ladytron have produced an album that, from its inception, sought to invoke the same spirit that the band had 25 years ago Far Out
Gorillaz The Mountain
The strongest case in years that Gorillaz can still make records that matter as records Dork
Kim Gordon Play Me
'Play me' doesn’t try to comfort. It tries to provoke, energise and outlast the scroll Dork
The Orielles Only You Left
These songs come from months of demo-hoarding and forensic listening, the band archiving every practice-room spark before lovingly picking through the results Dork
James Blake Trying Times
Blake sounds energised by the room he has carved out for himself Dork
Harry Styles Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
This isn’t an album built like a straight line from hook to hook. It moves in waves, often favouring texture and atmosphere over immediate release Dork
Underscores U
It’s technical excellence as a musical product cannot be overstated. For a pop album to be this busy yet possess a pocket as deep and rich as underscores displays here is simply amazing Sputnik Music (staff)
Indie rock icon Kim Gordon acerbically wrestles with the state of the world over hip-hop and industrial beats on Play Me PopMatters
The former electro-pop enfant terrible swings big on her latest album, compressing all her split personalities and eclectic tastes into a high-gloss, high-stakes gamble to remake pop on her own terms Pitchfork
On U, she finds a clearly-defined, rounded-out identity in her music for the first time, and she delivers the most immediate and the most robust work of her career The Line Of Best Fit
Performing, writing and producing everything herself, April Grey pares back her hyperpop electronics for an LP in thrall to 90s pop-R&B, with songs that big stars would die for The Guardian
April Harper Grey’s latest hits all the beats of a classic pop record — a choreo-primed single, a power ballad, a post-breakup closure anthem — without overstaying its welcome Paste Magazine
A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre NME
Alexis Taylor Paris In The Spring
Paris in the Spring is a gem of a record which, while never over-reaching its ambition, sparkles with electronic ingenuity as it takes in all seasons of human experience Spectrum Culture
It's a beautiful collection of genre-hopping songs. Print edition only Uncut
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