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Mdou Moctar
Funeral For Justice
Moctar has refashioned a piece of my own musical history, now shiny and chrome. The grandeur is all-enveloping here; a minor epic built from a surfeit of dissident spirit and Van Halen fanaticism
Exclaim
Mdou Moctar
Funeral For Justice
Funeral for Justice is the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals
Rolling Stone
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
The singing is as smooth as the top of a kitten's head
The Arts Desk
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
The brotherly duo’s ambitious fifth studio album sees them perfect their rock’n’roll pastiche, with a hint at an even brighter future
NME
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
Flows seamlessly, with no snags disrupting its mellow mood-tapestry, right up until final track Rock On (Over And Over) throws us a curveball by actually glamming out, Bolan-style, as if to say, “Here’s what you thought we were about”. Superb
Record Collector
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
Mixes up its subjects of study but chooses obsessively detailed replication over the hints of originality and vulnerable emotions that start emerging when the Lemon Twigs let their guard down
All Music
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
As with 2023's downbeat Everything Harmony, what might be a Beatles-beach-Boys-Big-Star data-scrape is elevated through high-calibre songwriting. Print edition only
Mojo
The Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
The LP opens with “My Golden Years”, a delectable mélange of Harrisonian 12-string riffs, Wilsonian harmonies and layer-cake hooks, and reaches its apex with the glorious Beach Boys homage “In The Eyes Of The Girl”, with Sean Ono Lennon co-producing and playing bass. Print edition only
Uncut
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
Jazz remains the root of his sound, with Washington’s saxophone as bold and vibrant as ever. But the grand orchestral sweep of albums past is pared back, replaced by adeeper engagement with hip-hop, funk and soul. Print edition only
Uncut
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
On these dozen tracks, Washington creates a playground and invites friends in to be themselves. Print edition only
Mojo
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
With a tenor saxophone and an endless ambition, musician and bandleader Kamasi Washington returns with what he has called his “dance album”
The Skinny
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
Fearless Movement bolsters Washington’s prowess as a jazz bandleader engaged in cultural and musical curation
Spin
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