Teleman - Brilliant Sanity

4 Stars

Loaded with more jingles than a sleigh at Christmas, ​‘Brilliant Sanity’ is synth pop at its most intentionally addictive.

8th April 2016

Future of the Left - the peace & truce of future of the left

4 Stars

This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on.

8th April 2016

Deftones - Gore

4 Stars

Balancing their sound on a knife edge, this is an album that sees their own heaviness redefined.

5th April 2016

Parquet Courts - Human Performance

4 Stars

A tightrope walk between impulse and laser-point precision.

4th April 2016

Mogwai - Atomic

4 Stars

The biggest achievement of ​‘Atomic’ is that it can stand on its own musical merit.

1st April 2016

Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling

4 Stars

‘Silent Earthling’ is far from an reinvention: it’s simply Three Trapped Tigers adapting and tinkering.

1st April 2016

Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing

4 Stars

Laying everything on the line, Frankie Cosmos scrutinise every ounce of who they are and what they know.

1st April 2016

Pet Shop Boys - Super

4 Stars

Frequent, frantic builds and drops, whooshes and exultant crescendos abound throughout.

1st April 2016

Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye

4 Stars

A brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird.

31st March 2016

Weezer - Weezer (The White Album)

4 Stars

This is no pastiche of so-called ​‘classic’ Weezer.

29th March 2016

The Thermals - We Disappear

4 Stars

The Thermals can do empathy as well as they do energy — on all fronts, this is a stirring return to form.

25th March 2016

The Joy Formidable - Hitch

4 Stars

If the songwriting on ​‘Hitch’ is, to coin an old music hack turn-of-phrase, ​‘mature’, it’s also concise — in a good way.

25th March 2016

Primal Scream - Chaosmosis

4 Stars

More than anything it proves that having fun and doing exactly what you feel like is never going out of style.

18th March 2016

The Range - Potential

4 Stars

There’s a deft and distinctive rawness to what The Range does.

11th March 2016

Alessia Cara - Know It All

4 Stars

‘Know It All’ isn’t perfect, but it’d be a challenge not to fall for even just some its charms.

11th March 2016

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

4 Stars

There’s much treasure to be found in Lamar’s trash.

8th March 2016

Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize

4 Stars

While Muncie Girls might tread relatively familiar musical territory on, it’s Hekt’s acerbic, no-frills lyricism that shines brightest.

4th March 2016

Anna Meredith - Varmints

4 Stars

Vibrant and kaleidoscopic in a way few musicians could ever muster.

4th March 2016

Poliça - United Crushers

4 Stars

Poliça have finally drawn straws and found something to stick with.

3rd March 2016

Låpsley - Long Way Home

4 Stars

She’s always had the potential to pen giant numbers with no strings attached.

3rd March 2016

Holy Esque – At Hope’s Ravine

4 Stars

An album not just ambitious in its composition but thematically as well, ​‘At Hope’s Ravine’ is both opulent and sparse.

26th February 2016

Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine

4 Stars

At face value, this is joyously immediate pop music. Dig a little deeper, and there’s endless facets.

26th February 2016

Quilt - Plaza

4 Stars

An album that encompasses their intriguing convictions for different genres.

26th February 2016

Santigold - 99 cents

4 Stars

Though the price tag here may be ​‘99¢,’ she’s never sounded freer.

26th February 2016