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Kylie Minogue  Tension II

Tension II surpasses its predecessor, making the thematic connection between the two albums almost seem unnecessary. This collection of new songs stands alone, offering a tighter, bolder, and more emotionally complex experience Albumism

Kylie Minogue  Tension II

It is not wholly without flaws as stated above but still manages to solidify that Kylie will always be someone we just can’t get out of our heads Beats Per Minute

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

While much of it is in Elverum’s favoured strolling alt-rock gait with layers of distortion, the canvas is wide enough to encompass stripped-back acoustic songs and full-bore black metal passages Beats Per Minute

Tyler, The Creator  Chromakopia

Solidifies Tyler's place in a rare echelon of artists — where every new album feels like a Big Event, complete with its own thematic concerns, production style, visual aesthetic and even fictional aliases Exclaim

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

After nearly 50 years, the Cure have finally delivered an album filled with exactly what their detractors have always claimed; unremitting angst and misery. The punchline is that it’s great; indeed, “their best since Disintegration” Spectrum Culture

The Smile  Cutouts

Cutouts is an exciting milestone for The Smile, showcasing a new ability to create a unified and emotionally rich album, while still drawing on the creative fertility and spontaneity fans have come to expect from this most productive of Yorke’s projects Under The Radar

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Phil Elverum's latest is a thorny, beautiful 80-plus minute journey Rolling Stone

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

t would take a hell of a reinvention to pull back Primal Scream from this stinking brink. Come Ahead is a record that fails, fatally, to recognise that Bobby Gillespie was always Primal Scream’s least compelling element The Quietus

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

A triumph in thematic/aural juxtaposition, Come Ahead is up there with Primal Scream’s best. Print edition only Mojo

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

Gillespie's words can sound like platitudes when they're written down, but his sincerity and the music's sonic freshness and influence-exposing urgency elevate the material, evoking the Primal Scream of 30 years ago. Print edition only Record Collector

Primal Scream  Come Ahead

As righteously indignant and vital as ever, ‘Come Ahead’ is another high in a career full of them Clash

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Elverum took his time with this album. Night Palace is startling, brave, and utterly brilliant Spill Magazine

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

There is a finality to Smith’s thematic choice of words, but it is in the delivery that the urgency and desperation can really be felt as he wrestles with regret, grief, ageing, and humanity’s futile nature Northern Transmissions

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

The West Sussex legends' first album of new material since 4:13 Dream maps out the hours, minutes, seconds of our 16 years apart, playing back the sound of surviving the death of a planet, hoping that Robert Smith’s voice is there with us as the ground goes cold Paste Magazine

The Cure  Songs Of A Lost World

Who knows if it’s their last album, or whether there’s more to come? Let us be thankful that it’s here and just as wonderful as we dared to hope it might be God Is In The TV