Grimes - Art Angels

5 Stars

With her fourth album, Claire Boucher opens up a whole new realm of possibilities, and gives the middle finger to expectation in the process.

12th November 2015

Wavves - V

5 Stars

Wavves have offered up an album that proves themselves as leaders in the punk pack.

2nd October 2015

Swim Deep - Mothers

5 Stars

Dangerous gambles that all pay out.

2nd October 2015

Chvrches - Every Open Eye

5 Stars

‘Every Open Eye’ is a second album even better than the first.

25th September 2015

FIDLAR - Too

5 Stars

A big, dumb-smart, happy-sad, universally-specific beast of a record.

4th September 2015

Foals - What Went Down

5 Stars

If Foals didn’t already have enough songs in their arsenal to top festival bills, they’ve just added ten more.

28th August 2015

Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

5 Stars

The flag waving spearhead for a whole bunch of young British bands.

19th June 2015

Everything Everything - Get to Heaven

5 Stars

Pop explorers Everything Everything have finally discovered their utopia.

14th June 2015

Gengahr - A Dream Outside

5 Stars

‘A Dream Outside’ dwarfs expectations.

13th June 2015

Metz - II

5 Stars

A direct, gut-punching affair.

3rd May 2015

Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer

5 Stars

A snarling, twisted, mischievous creation, ​‘Foil Deer’ is a leaping, high-spirited joy of a record.

18th April 2015

Drenge - Undertow

5 Stars

A band finding their feet before taking to the skies.

2nd April 2015

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

5 Stars

Make no mistake — this is a debut like few others.

22nd March 2015

Menace Beach - Ratworld

5 Stars

If Menace Beach were from Brooklyn or Seattle the hype would be deafening.

14th January 2015

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

5 Stars

Ten years away has made them more essential than ever.

12th January 2015

Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

5 Stars

A riot of compulsive, flawlessly-produced, and beautifully impassioned music.

23rd May 2014

The Horrors - Luminous

5 Stars

The album The Horrors have been destined to make.

4th May 2014

Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time

5 Stars

In short, ​‘Night Time, My Time’ is stunning.

13th March 2014

Wild Beasts - Present Tense

5 Stars

Their most complete record by a serious stretch.

21st February 2014

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

5 Stars

‘St. Vincent’ takes a wider perspective, and it works phenomenally.

19th February 2014

Joy Division - The Best Of

5 Stars

This is a great introduction to Joy Division before tackling the studio albums.

24th March 2008

Johnny Foreigner - Arcs Across The City

5 Stars

Hyperactive clap happy discordant pop flows through JoFo’s debut seven track mini-album like a stick of especially angular rock.

26th November 2007

The Lodger - Grown-Ups

5 Stars

Full of glittering gems, ​‘Grown Ups’ is proof that the best things come in small packages. You won’t hear a better album this year, we promise you that.

11th June 2007

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

5 Stars

From the man who made guitar-fused dance music cool again in the 2000s comes a record that not only builds on 2005’s superb debut but blows it out of the water.

12th March 2007