Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

5 Stars

It turns out Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2.0 is exactly what 2022 needs.

30th September 2022

Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl

5 Stars

An eclectic palette of bombastic, heart-on-sleeve euphoric pop and angsty dancefloor fillers.

16th September 2022

Oliver Sim - Hideous Bastard

5 Stars

Oliver takes on both past and present realities with a candour that surprises even him.

9th September 2022

Jamie T - The Theory of Whatever

5 Stars

Proof that you can grow up gracefully with every inch of your vibrancy still intact.

22nd July 2022

Nova Twins - Supernova

5 Stars

The duo are at the centre of a brightly burning, ever-expanding sonic explosion, all of their own making.

17th June 2022

Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter

5 Stars

Change, escape and identity are not easy things to navigate, and ​‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is the dark, unsettling, sprawling beauty that comes out of it.

13th May 2022

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

5 Stars

It’s heavy, but never heavy-going.

22nd April 2022

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

5 Stars

Packed with righteous middle fingers and playful bon mots.

8th April 2022

Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez, See Your Future

5 Stars

An album not caught in time.

25th March 2022

Shamir - Heterosexuality

5 Stars

The record bounds between unfaltering self-belief and fundamental pain.

11th February 2022

Yard Act - The Overload

5 Stars

Brilliantly constructed to unfurl like some sordid soap opera of Brexit Britain.

21st January 2022

Snail Mail - Valentine

5 Stars

A record as hopeful as it is bittersweet.

3rd November 2021

Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

5 Stars

Powerful to the last drop.

20th October 2021

Joy Crookes - Skin

5 Stars

Joy Crookes, by rights, should be riding ​‘Skin’ into the big leagues.

11th October 2021

Poppy - Flux

5 Stars

To put it simply, it’s a great rock album.

24th September 2021

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

5 Stars

If ​‘GREY Area’ saw Simz come-of-age as a rapper, ​‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ is Simz making her first long-lasting artistic stamp on the zeitgeist.

2nd September 2021

Chvrches - Screen Violence

5 Stars

Their most euphoric rallying cry to date.

26th August 2021

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

5 Stars

Not just a triumph in progressing a signature sound into new territories, but a lesson in how to own your reality with confidence and class.

2nd August 2021

Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

5 Stars

A career-defining return that most artists can only dream of; pure synth-pop ecstasy.

1st July 2021

Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

5 Stars

From here on out, Japanese Breakfast can go anywhere and we’ll follow.

3rd June 2021

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

5 Stars

A history book-cementing document of a band at the peak of their powers.

2nd June 2021

St Vincent - Daddy’s Home

5 Stars

On all fronts, with ​‘Daddy’s Home’, St Vincent has delivered spectacularly.

13th May 2021

Goat Girl - On All Fours

5 Stars

A triumph.

28th January 2021

The White Stripes - Greatest Hits

5 Stars

It’s almost as if we’re primed to rediscover the band all over again.

3rd December 2020