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Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

Arriving at the peak of her imperial phase, Swift’s 11th studio album is surprisingly flat and, at times, cringeworthy NME

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

Taylor Swift finds new ways to open up on the sophisticated pop of The Tortured Poets Department The Line Of Best Fit

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms The Guardian

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

The whole album is a terrific reminder of the intense, personal connection Swift can conjure in song The Independent

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

The Tortured Poets Department combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that's wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic Rolling Stone

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

This set would have been released six months ago if Jez Kerr hadn’t broken his pelvis and fractured a hip The Arts Desk

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

Peering out from the shadow cast by their Band on the Wall contemporaries Joy Division and The Fall, their thirteenth album It All Comes Down To This is their strongest since 1982’s Sextet The Quietus

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

For all their recent productivity and renaissance, A Certain Ratio are no closer to their zeitgeist moment. But with output as strong as this sitting alongside their back catalogue, they are all the stronger for it Clash

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

The band's first full-length project with prolific writer-producer dan Carey mostly stays within familiar punk-funk parameters, but is generally an infectiously kinetic, richly detailed, timeless affair. Print edition only Uncut

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

Here they're presented as a crisp, razor-edged groove unit, with not a milligram of flab aboard. either instrumentally or melodically. Print edition only Mojo

Melvins  Tarantula Heart

Tarantula Heart's five tracks contain more than an album's worth of weirdness and power. It's a wild ride, even for the Melvins, and further solidifies their status as seemingly invincible practitioners of heavy, messed-up music All Music

Melvins  Tarantula Heart

A squealing noise-rock juggernaut that balances gruff anthemicism with a certain improvisatory elan. Print edition only Uncut

Melvins  Tarantula Heart

The result is a series of songs that have the expansiveness of improvisational music, disciplined into the taut power of rock PopMatters

Mark Knopfler  One Deep River

Anyone who’s missed the sound of the sometime Dire Straits man expertly working the fretboard will find much to love on his first new album in six years musicOMH

Mark Knopfler  One Deep River

Feels like a highly personal statement, a real labour of love. Rooted in classic American songwriting, it feels humble, and often moving – when Mark Knopfler permits himself to cut loose, there’s a lot here to be swept away by Clash