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Chanel Beads  Your Day Will Come

The record sits with damage, allowing longing to stay, knowing that repetition is its own kind of pain. If the first album waited for arrival, this one lives in the after and still somehow, in all of its diffusiveness and imprecision, sounds beautiful Beats Per Minute

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Reaffirming their position at the top of the UK’s post-punk and alternative music landscape – albeit with a sonic approach entirely different to their previous two albums – Yard Act have struck upon a truly great album in You’re Gonna Need A Little Music Far Out

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Leeds post-punk band hit their groove on third album Hot Press

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St. Vincent), the resulting 11-song set is a louder, more irritated, more confrontational one All Music

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

If it’s a record that grapples à la Pulp’s This Is Hardcore with the downside of success, You’re Gonna Need A Little Music is further testament to Smith’s lending library smarts and the band’s Happy Mondays-via-Franz Ferdinand knack for indie-disco bangers Mojo

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Yard Act prove themselves to be far more malleable than you might expect as they continue to push the sonic envelope, while grounding their songs in relatable kitchen sink wit The Skinny

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

This is the sound of a band in maximum flight, not afraid to change direction, still with the open and fun storytelling but immersed in a darker soundscape The Line Of Best Fit

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

It demonstrates the timelessness of the blues, especially when in the right hands. In the case of Richards and Jagger, this remains ever true as one of the greatest songwriting duos proves their worth once more Spill Magazine

Madonna  Confessions II

CONFESSIONS II does a poignant job of capturing the pop star’s life both past and present in a way that’s uncharacteristically unguarded and deeply introspective Albumism

Kelela  new avatar

Where Raven was interested in images of nature and vanishing boundaries, new avatar seems conscious of walls and windows, house fronts from which city life echoes. And again and again, the sound of a sole electric guitar in bedrooms. Indeed: everybody’s making rock music! Beats Per Minute

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

The former White Stripes man throws lightning bolts over his own '70s riff universe on his seventh solo outing – but it's nothing new NME

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

Foreign Tongues is good, even if it's overcrowded and occasionally over-eager; a feat most bands would kill for. They may lean into their strengths a little too hard at times, but the Rolling Stones are still coming out on top Exclaim

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom  ? of When

This is a gorgeous, sweeping, summery experimental record that in my humblest of opinions deserves to see Panda Bear and Sonic Boom recognized far more than they currently are as a brilliant psych-pop duo Sputnik Music (staff)

mary in the junkyard  Role Model Hermit

Most upstart bands do not reach, let alone commence with, such strong thematic unity and the uncanny ability to express it through every single instrument used Sputnik Music (staff)

Madonna  Confessions II

Though the sixteen-track LP plays it safe sonically, leaning into commercial dance tropes rather than experimentalism, this lack of risk will be forgiven by a fanbase yearning to explore her back catalogue The Quietus