Heartworms - A Comforting Notion
A masterclass in making an entrance.
Alex Cabré
Arctic Monkeys - The Car
The Monkeys have never sounded more evocative.
Sports Team - GULP!
A heft of new ammo for pint-flinging, moshpitting chaos on the dancefloor.
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
As much a great musician as she is an illusionist who dazzles the listener with stylish tricks.
BODEGA - Broken Equipment
The outfit play mostly the same old tricks as last time, for mixed results.
Placebo: Catastrophe in Motion
More than 25 years into their career, Placebo are as vital as they've ever been. On the cult heroes' eighth album "Never Let Me Go', they're steeling themselves for the end of the world as we know it.
THYLA - THYLA
After a little too long spent in New Band Limbo, ‘THYLA’ isn’t the blockbuster it might have been.
Yard Act - The Overload
Brilliantly constructed to unfurl like some sordid soap opera of Brexit Britain.
Lorde - Solar Power
A heady trip that prances around greatness but settles for pretty good.
Clairo - Sling
Stoic and serene, ‘Sling’ is a brave new chapter that introduces a Clairo transformed.
The Neu Bulletin (CMAT, Lazarus Kane, Molly Payton and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms
If the goal of a debut album is to introduce yourself to the world with a sound and a style that’s purely your own, the Romeos have done a pretty stellar job.
Tracks: Bleachers, Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen, Japanese Breakfast and more
The pick of week’s new music also features newbies from Lucy Dacus, Holly Humberstone and Matt Maltese.
Chloe Moriondo - Blood Bunny
Someone who, like her heroes, deserves to be covered by teenagers in their sun-soaked bedrooms.
Lemondaze - Celestial Bodies
It's clear there's an artistic vision here, even if it's yet to be exercised in its fullest form.
girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
Ultimately, though, girl in red’s charm lies in her wide-eyed excitability.
Crumb - Ice Melt
‘Ice Melt’ struggles to reach the same bright heights as its predecessor. From the off, it’s simply boring.
Courting - Grand National
Heavy-handed with their influences but endearing enough to get away with it.
Sorry - Twixtustwain
Just another notch in the belt of this outfit who seldom put a foot wrong.
Pixey - Free To Live In Colour
A solid introduction to a sparky new pop personality, and a perfect antidote to those winter chills.
Do Nothing - Glueland
It doesn’t all make sense, but you sense that’s the point.
Pale Waves - Who Am I?
You get the sense they’re still not quite certain who or what they want to be. But they’re definitely headed in the right direction.
Black Country, New Road - For the first time
The outfit as a whole feel less than the sum of their parts.
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
Beefier, more confrontational, more dissonant than before.
