Mandy, Indiana
I've Seen A Way
Mandy, Indiana are angry at the political structures that have failed various marginalized groups, and they’re going to use the energy generated by their rage by taking it to the dance floor
Spectrum Culture
Water From Your Eyes
Everyone's Crushed
Six albums in, the real potential of Water From Your Eyes is only just starting to crystallise. Everyone’s Crushed is their best collection of ideas to date, blending disparate elements into a harmonious cacophony you can lose yourself to
God Is In The TV
Water From Your Eyes
Everyone's Crushed
At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde. But when Water From Your Eyes find transcendence – especially on the record’s final two tracks, “14” and the extra winky “Buy My Product” – it can be quite stunning.
Rolling Stone
Arlo Parks
My Soft Machine
Parks has a skill for inviting listeners not only into her mind, but into her immediate environment, and the effects bring her racing emotions right to the forefront
Rolling Stone
Lana Del Rey
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
With Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey implores us not to forget her and has ensured that we can’t possibly
PopMatters
Graham Nash
Now
Now reminds of the treasure that Graham Nash has been and continues to be in the ongoing narrative of rock music and it’s a snapshot of the creative spark
PopMatters
Paul Simon
Seven Psalms
Seven Psalms is Paul Simon’s 15th solo album and in it, he confronts his mortality head-on and wonders about God, the reasons for existence, and death
PopMatters
Arlo Parks
My Soft Machine
The singer-songwriter’s second album is headier and more dynamic than her Mercury Prize-winning debut, but its sharp writing is often blunted by its temperate sound
Pitchfork
Water From Your Eyes
Everyone's Crushed
The Brooklyn duo's logic-defying new album threads anticapitalist critique, stoner humor, and a hazy undercurrent of fatalism into art-pop so mesmerizing it'll give you a contact high
Pitchfork
Sparks
The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
The Mael brothers are riding high. Their 26th album strikes the ideal Sparksian balance of madcap melody, labyrinthine arrangement, and stinging social satire
Pitchfork
Foo Fighters
But Here We Are
But Here We Are will come to be the most treasured Foo Fighters album of all
Gigwise
Foo Fighters
But Here We Are
While it’s been a long road for Foo Fighters to get to this point, and this album doesn’t quite match up to their most distant triumphs, these aging rockers have demonstrated here that some fire in the belly remains
Sputnik Music (staff)