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Ride  This Is Not A Safe Place

Ride veer more towards a pop sound than ever on This Is Not a Safe Place, losing identity in the process The 405

Ride  This Is Not A Safe Place

Ride have made an album that sounds vibrant and an all-around joy, even if it isn’t perfect Spectrum Culture

Shura  forevher

Shura has made a perfectly good pop record, but in her unashamed, subtle and normalizing presentation of queer love in the form of mainstream music has, actually, produced something conceptually revolutionary. Not in the music itself, but that might just be the point! Under The Radar

Kate Tempest  The Book Of Traps And Lessons

It is a genuine surprise that this is Tempest's first record not to be Mercury Prize-nominated, given it could well go down as her best, but regardless, this is a highly satisfactory work Under The Radar

Ride  This Is Not A Safe Place

Those moments where the album soars instead of stalls, come too infrequently to leave any lasting impression The Line Of Best Fit

Blanck Mass  Animated Violence Mild

What better way to rebel than making the lushest, sweetest music of his career? The Quietus

Blanck Mass  Animated Violence Mild

Blanck Mass' Animated Violence Mild drops unrelenting electro-industrial melodies, practicing excess to explore personal grief and the global devastation of consumerism PopMatters

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard   Infest The Rats' Nest

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard go full metal to craft a brutal warning against ecological destruction on their 15th studio album, Infest the Rats' Nest PopMatters

Bon Iver  i, i

Justin Vernon's (Bon Iver) lyricism is as cryptic as ever, but the firmness with which he sings his abstractions robs his fourth album of much of its mystery PopMatters

Young Thug  So Much Fun

‘So Much Fun’ is a free-spirited record that comes with heavy doses of ridiculousness, but it’s lovably silly, and is a welcome dose of light relief NME

Young Thug  So Much Fun

Although it may not be the best project that Young Thug has released, certain tracks off So Much Fun are guaranteed to become classic party anthems played at max volume for years Exclaim

Young Thug  So Much Fun

Featuring several of his acolytes, So Much Fun remains a triumphant showcase for the iconoclastic Young Thug and one of his best albums to date Pitchfork

The Hold Steady  Thrashing Thru The Passion

The Brooklyn indie rock institution’s seventh album is as joyous and rousing as their best efforts Pitchfork

Sleater-Kinney  The Center Won't Hold

The Centre Won’t Hold sees them as vital, compelling and as searingly relevant as ever music OMH

Ride  This Is Not A Safe Place

Here Ride aren’t just treading water so much as striking out for the horizon music OMH