18 January 2019
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James Blake Assume Form
Uplifting treatise on love and its fragility. Print edition only Mojo
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
A work of fractured excellence. Print edition only Mojo
Maggie Rogers Heard It In A Past Life
It sticks in the mind for a good while after and just keeps bringing you back in with fantastic production, brilliant pop songwriting and a central personality as easy to like and support as any on the current music scene Clash
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow
Remind Me Tomorrow isn’t as consistently captivating as Tramp or Are We There, but it’s nonetheless a delightful return, one that gives us a new (pleasingly less traumatic) window into Van Etten’s world Drowned In Sound
It is the peak of her songwriting and her most atmospheric, emotionally piercing album to date Pitchfork
Steve Mason About The Light
These are songs that suggest that this is how Steve Mason has always wanted Steve Mason to sound PopMatters
His most direct, sincere LP yet The Line Of Best Fit
The singer-songwriter balances darkness and dreams on a fantastic new album Rolling Stone
Her most confident effort to date, elevating her palette through something that can best be described as a confessional purge Consequence Of Sound
Steve Gunn The Unseen Inbetween
It is a record that demands attention and close listening God Is In The TV
The Twilight Sad It Won't Be Like This
The Twilight Sad continue to plough the same furrow as on their previous albums, yet with a little more urgency, consistency and richness that some of their earlier work lacked The 405
A record in constant forward motion, its music mimicking the rollercoaster ride that's been Rogers' career since she brought Pharrell Williams to tears in a viral video in the spring of 2016 Exclaim
Expanding on the folk-pop songs that eased her in, Maggie Rogers' debut is an excellent collage on the importance of a singular vision Gig Soup
It's an album that steps out of the cloistered space of his past music into the world around it. A little pop music seeps into his usual electronic soul and gospel style Resident Advisor
A swirling, effortlessly artsy album with an almost surreal atmosphere you won’t soon forget American Songwriter
"This is how you turn pop into art" - NME's take on album number eight from Bradford Cox's indie rock band while Uncut reckon it includes "some of Deerhunter's prettiest songs to date"
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past eight years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
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