The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy

5 Stars

Sky-high, grandiose ambition that ties together lofty literary sentiment, cinematic sweeping theatricality and killer melodic indie hooks with an equal affinity for each.

31st January 2024

Green Day - Saviors

5 Stars

A soundtrack while the world’s going to shit — catharsis has never sounded this good.

19th January 2024

Sprints - Letter To Self

5 Stars

Musical exorcism at its very best.

3rd January 2024

PinkPantheress - Heaven knows

5 Stars

As if a Y2K Shakespeare were musing on sticky sweet star-crossed love amid metaphors for abandonment on a bedazzled Motorola Razr.

10th November 2023

Jelani Blackman - The Heart Of It

5 Stars

One of the great British debuts of 2023.

8th November 2023

The Kills - God Games

5 Stars

‘God Games’, like its predecessors, has proved worth the wait.

25th October 2023

Sampha - LAHAI

5 Stars

His patience and craft make ​‘LAHAI’ a stunning experience.

20th October 2023

CMAT - Crazymad, For Me

5 Stars

Her brand of country-indebted pop feels even richer this time around.

11th October 2023

Dorian Electra - Fanfare

5 Stars

A brilliantly coherent, hilariously parodic, starkly intellectual, yet undeniably ridiculous record.

4th October 2023

Kylie Minogue - Tension

5 Stars

There’s no pretension to its greatness — just our Kylie.

19th September 2023

Ashnikko - WEEDKILLER

5 Stars

A triumphant debut.

23rd August 2023

Christine and the Queens - PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE

5 Stars

Like no other exploration of grief — a new magnum opus.

7th June 2023

Bully - Lucky For You

5 Stars

A near-perfect album if there ever was one.

31st May 2023

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are

5 Stars

An album that will follow you for hours, if not days.

31st May 2023

Yaeji - With A Hammer

5 Stars

Innovative yet familiar, lackadaisically cool yet brave, a brilliant and sparkling window into the future.

7th April 2023

boygenius - the record

5 Stars

A story of unbreakable friendship and mutual respect.

31st March 2023

JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes

5 Stars

For a project that could have held unreasonable expectations, it overdelivers time and time again.

24th March 2023

slowthai - UGLY

5 Stars

A beautiful thing to behold.

3rd March 2023

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

5 Stars

A record that deliberately reaches a little to the left of perfect.

14th February 2023

Paramore - This is Why

5 Stars

Their most ambitious album yet.

10th February 2023

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

5 Stars

Unique, raw and totally joyous.

3rd February 2023

SZA – SOS

5 Stars

The drought may be over, but SZA left no crumbs.

9th December 2022

404 Guild - False Dawn

5 Stars

At once bleak, beautiful, emotionally charged and completely heartbreaking.

9th December 2022

Crawlers - Loud Without Noise

5 Stars

Wildly ambitious, it works to showcase perfectly why the Merseysiders have garnered such a fervent fanbase to date – and just how far they could go.

4th November 2022