Garbage
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
Another fantastic 2020s offering from this masterful quartet, further solidifying their place as alt-rock royalty
All Music
yeule
Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
Cyberpunk landscapes have many heroes and heroines. In the shadowed alleyways, their broken potential awaits
Beats Per Minute
These New Puritans
Crooked Wing
Ambitious and heartfelt, Crooked Wing might have needed more time – or anger – to fully reveal qualities we manage to briefly glimpse only
Beats Per Minute
Garbage
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
While not quite the box of delights Garbage shook at us last time, there’s persistent allure in the mating of cavernous soundscapes with Shirley’s penetratingly icy vocals. It’s more than enough to keep this most distinctive of outfits in the alt.rock fast lane
Kerrang!
Miley Cyrus
Something Beautiful
Cyrus mistakes experimentation for enlightenment, resulting in a hollow, self-congratulatory record
Northern Transmissions
Matt Berninger
Get Sunk
Get Sunk never feels overwrought. It’s a fine balance, and therein lies the album’s beauty
Northern Transmissions
Alan Sparhawk
With Trampled by Turtles
With Trampled by Turtles along for the ride, there’s a sense — rare, and difficult to fake — that everyone involved is not just playing with Sparhawk, but for him. Not as a backing band, not as a feature, but as co-authors of something sacred and fragile and alive
Paste Magazine
caroline
Caroline 2
A grand experience from the off
DIY
Matt Berninger
Get Sunk
The sound of him really beginning to stretch his legs as a solo artist
DIY
yeule
Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
A flex of pop ingenuity
DIY
caroline
Caroline 2
Ditching the pastoral slowcore of their debut, the south London octet go beyond the analogue playbook to produce their most dazzling record to date
NME
Alan Sparhawk
With Trampled by Turtles
While Trampled By Turtles provide a rustic backdrop which not only fits the material like a glove, but adds a world-weary sense of depth
Sputnik Music (staff)