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Yard Act  The Overload

The Overload is both moderately entertaining and maddeningly bloated, depending on the moment Beats Per Minute

Cat Power  Covers

The fact that we can hear a whole world in her voice even when it’s someone else’s song is further proof that she is a true artist, a spirit worth following through the wind Beats Per Minute

Years & Years  Night Call

A glowing set of earworms with the odd flicker every now and then that encourages you to embrace all the heartbreak and happiness that life inevitably throws at you Beats Per Minute

Aurora  The Gods We Can Touch

An oversized but not overcrowded album, made by a pop star who will never stop never stopping Northern Transmissions

Earl Sweatshirt  SICK!

It sounds crass to refer to Sick! as “returning to business as usual,” given the progress Earl has made in the past few years, but that return comes with a newfound maturity Spectrum Culture

Aurora  The Gods We Can Touch

With her fourth album, AURORA captures all the essence of the cold and folkloric Scandinavian atmosphere and fuses it with electronic, synthetic textures and very intimate orchestrations Spectrum Culture

Boris  W

The ideal reaction to stressors: patient, considerate, and moral, from a band whose principles are less tied to a particular sound and more to divergence Spectrum Culture

Miles Kane  Change the Show

A showcase of what Kane is capable of creating Gigwise

Miles Kane  Change the Show

All in all, the blanketing lime-lit production, the in-your-face ’60s nostalgia, the five-sugars-in-the-tea gooiness of it all may be too cloying for some DIY

Miles Kane  Change the Show

After a fraught few years, the Wirral singer-songwriter searches for comfort in new beginnings on his fourth album NME

Miles Kane  Change the Show

Kane has now made what he has called a "grand, souly album". And at times his bold move pays off. Print edition only Uncut

Miles Kane  Change the Show

Much of the magic in Change the Show, as with most of Kane's work, is in the way he turns being a kid of the '90s with an obsession for all things mod into something of his own oeuvre All Music

Miles Kane  Change the Show

If you are looking for ‘all the feels’ on a cold winter’s morning, ‘Change The Show’ will warm the cockles of your heart and make you yearn for the carefree and hazy festival days of summer Clash

Years & Years  Night Call

For all its pleasure-seeking impulses, the chemistry is missing in the star’s third album The FT

Yard Act  The Overload

Leeds newcomers bear the weight of their despondent musical tradition with pride The FT