14 November 2026
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Fourth album of lo-fi indie from the former Vivian Girl Katy Goodman working with husband, guitarist and co-writer Todd Wisenbaker and producer Ryan Adams
6.9
Dreamy, with a faraway quality, often indecipherable, but so arresting your attention never wavers Read Review
These tunes, for their soft, subtle execution, are beautiful and poignant and rely on nothing but Goodman’s voice and Wisenbaker’s masterful guitar-work Read Review
Music for Listening to Music to isn’t just a background pleasantry; instead, it may very well be the one that could move Goodman into the foreground of her career Read Review
It is a more understated and pensive effort than Hour of the Dawn Read Review
A gorgeous collection of timeless songs Read Review
In every sense, this is a smart, confident step forward for La Sera Read Review
This may not be their defining album, but you get the sense that in moving away from their punkier roots, La Sera’s best work may be just around the corner Read Review
Comes across as more like a short stop on the way to something more solid and definitive Read Review
It hits the thresholds of likeability and then runs away from the conceptual bar in favor of speeding faster than light Read Review
Another noticeable change is the producer, alt-country star Ryan Adams. He convinced Goodman to record live off the floor for the first time, which gives the record a warm tone lacking on 2014’s Hour Of The Dawn Read Review
La Sera’s fourth album is a shrine to the Smiths – or rather the Smiths with less scathing contempt, more amplified whimsy and driven by an urgent, rattled-out rock’n’roll rather than a melancholy groove Read Review
Where La Sera goes, whether it’s back to the fuzz-pop of yore or deeper into the dusty annals of alt-country, Goodman’s voice is one to follow Read Review
Even after a half dozen spins, it's hard to recall a single hook Read Review
This is not the La Sera you remember. This is not the La Sera you loved Read Review
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U2 Carnaval de Luz
This is not a radical reinvention of Rattle And Hum-to-Achtung Baby magnitude, or even a wilful evolution akin to that from How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to No Line On Th Horizon. The ghosts of U2's past are summoned in numbers, though they are frequently mischievously partnered to interestingly incongruous effect. Print edition only Uncut
The Irish legends' best work in 25 years homages their eras, brings Brian Eno to bear on keys and even wheels out the late Dolly Parton musicOMH
Royal Blood Dead Company
It’s a record that sounds exactly like you would hope a new Royal Blood album would sound like, it’s little wonder that they are as big as they are, a consistently fine listen God Is In The TV
Kings Of Leon O My Beloved
With Carnaval De Luz they are not reinventing themselves or trying to be the current flavour of the month. What they do with this album is revisit their older glories and create new music and sound Spill Magazine
U2 return with a defiant and celebratory record that captures them still at the height of their powers Hot Press
This is Lorelei The Singer In My Band
Nate Amos fills his latest album with other people’s stories: some linger, others get lost in the scenery Still Listening
Out for blood! Brighton bruisers Royal Blood blast back-to-basics on fifth album Kerrang!
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher floor the accelerator and embark on another collision course of energised and uncompromising riff-rock for album number five NME
Dead Company is arguably the best album they’ve released since their debut, but doesn’t exactly come close to topping it Sputnik Music (staff)
Royal Blood's latest album is competently made and frequently enjoyable, but almost entirely foreseeable The Skinny
There are no frills on this fifth set, once again self-produced by Kerr and Thatcher; instead, it provides a brisk hard rock assault that should please the faithful and entice newcomers to dig into their back catalog All Music
Bono and co. return to full strength with a celebration of hope over despair Mojo
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
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