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Dexy Midnight Runners  LOVE

It’s easy to be charmed by LOVE, which transcends place and generation to immerse us once again in the Dexys Midnight Runners world: a place shaped by the many forms of love a life can encounter, with Rowland as riveting a protagonist as ever The Line Of Best Fit

Jim James  Wowed Out

Once again, Wowed Out proves James’ incredible range, leaving the listener in a sense of awe Under The Radar

Dexy Midnight Runners  LOVE

Lyrically, it’s a very personal record – but musically it’s very much a band record God Is In The TV

Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

On his country-fried solo album, the Killers frontman doesn’t seem to have the attention span to work out the songs, offering half-hearted choruses and chiming bridges while he searches for an idea Spectrum Culture

Interpol  This Mirror Weighs a Ton

Interpol are not chasing past ghosts anymore. They are simply refining the darkness XS Noize

Weezer  Weezer [Gold Album]

While it may not quite eclipse the mythic heights of their early-’90s masterpieces, The Gold Album is easily Weezer’s best album in over a decade XS Noize

Dexy Midnight Runners  LOVE

With almost a countless number of releases since the opening salvo on Searching Four Young Soul Rebels (1980) it seems that Rowland has gone full circle, and in quite a great manner at that. Hopefully, this is not the last one Spill Magazine

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

A year after his mother died of an overdose, the boundary-breaking bluegrass guitarist returns with an idiosyncratic and personal new record Pitchfork

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

Despite the backstory, this is rich, often uplifting music from an artist who still barely seems to have broken sweat Mojo

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

So Much For goodbyes is starkly confessional, and openly anguished - but redeemed well short of the actually funereal by a warmth and wit that permeates proceedings even at their bleakest Uncut

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

He's got a lot on his mind: loss, grief, growing up, and becoming a parent himself. Matching the prodigious musical ability that has been apparent all along is one of his best collections of songs to date All Music

Billy Strings  So Much For Goodbyes

The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning The Guardian

Jim James  Wowed Out

James’ latest record offers a collage of modern-day musings to soundtrack the overstimulated mind, lifting you away from the intensity of everyday life and onto a journey towards some much-needed relaxation Far Out

Jim James  Wowed Out

At this phase of his career, James sounds increasingly like a guide to relaxation, to being aware of rhythms and to paying attention to how cast-off sounds might become diamonds over time Spectrum Culture

Jim James  Wowed Out

The My Morning Jacket frontman sounds graceful and unburdened on his latest solo album. It’s his strongest work in a decade Pitchfork