28 June 2017
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Debut album from the London electronic artist, protégé of fellow London producer Daniel Avery
7.8
Warm, emotive and well-produced, the work of a natural talent that will only get better with time Read Review
Her rise to success is owed to her own creative mind and assuring that taking time to create a solid product can be a virtue Read Review
There are clear parallels with Factory Floor, Mica Levi and early Grimes, but Owens has clearly found her calling. Print edition only
It’s standout track ‘Bird’ that really hooks you as it seamlessly switches from shadowy ambience to a delicious sub-bass beat that sounds as good in headphones as it will when cranked out at dangerously high decibels from some techno dungeon speakers Read Review
Dark synth-pop if the haunting, affecting kind. Print edition only
Welsh singer and producer leaves her indie rock past behind and mixes dream pop and ambient techno on her immensely varied and fully-formed debut Read Review
A debut that is full of depth and one that exposes the scope of electronic music beyond just the club Read Review
Both danceable and meditative music with genuine heart Read Review
Feels like the opening chapter of a thrilling career Read Review
She can create an environment so specific that, after listening, you may find yourself longing to immerse yourself in it again Read Review
Only once it’s over do you feel its spell release you. That is, until the next Kelly Lee Owens album Read Review
Give Owens time to figure out her strengths and weaknesses and she might make something truly formidable Read Review
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2 Chainz Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
If Pretty Girls Like Trap Music doesn't make the rapper an immediate king of the South, it undoubtedly puts him in line for the title Exclaim
Perfectly positioned to be a 2017 favourite catering to both fans of this generation’s trap music and those that were knee deep in trap during its late ‘90s/early ‘00s inception Clash
His talent has undeniably caught up to his hard work, and all we can hope now is that the latter doesn’t suffer because of the former PopMatters
The most fulfilling 2 Chainz album to date Pitchfork
There’s no galactic change to his style here, just a further refinement of it A.V. Club
Portugal. The Man. Woodstock
At just half the songs of Gorillaz’s recent album, Woodstock does political pop songs much better and doesn’t waste a bunch of collaborators in the process Earbuddy
Com Truise Iteration
We wait patiently for it to drive us somewhere, but it abandons us at the last moment and explains that it didn’t just feel up to it tonight Spectrum Culture
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe
You can’t put out 13 albums in 5 years without the occasional misstep and despite the distractions and interruptions there is still a killer garage rock album lurking somewhere in here God Is In The TV
Ride Weather Diaries
Something of a triumph and infinitely better than many a fan could have hoped for The Skinny
Beach Fossils Somersault
Laid-back summer record Under The Radar
Lorde Melodrama
Lorde is a perfect emotional teacher Tiny Mix Tapes
Jeff Tweedy Together At Last
As anyone who has seen him perform solo live knows, these arrangements feel like wonderful flipsides to the Wilco coin The Quietus
Algiers The Underside Of Power
Musically adventurous and spiritually redemptive: this is what the music of our time should sound like PopMatters
A celebration of peace, love, and musicality that shouldn’t be missed. PopMatters
Laurel Halo Dust
Laurel Halo continues to resist classification and deflect interpretation by treating the human voice like a synthetic material to be molded and shattered Pitchfork
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Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me