Pearl Jam
Dark Matter
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All Music
Lucy Rose
This Ain't The Way You Go Out
Nothing here is a misfire, as Rose deftly navigates these new approaches
All Music
Pearl Jam
Dark Matter
Musically, this album is some of the band’s catchiest and punchiest material in years
The Independent
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
Arriving at the peak of her imperial phase, Swift’s 11th studio album is surprisingly flat and, at times, cringeworthy
NME
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
Taylor Swift finds new ways to open up on the sophisticated pop of The Tortured Poets Department
The Line Of Best Fit
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms
The Guardian
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
The whole album is a terrific reminder of the intense, personal connection Swift can conjure in song
The Independent
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
The Tortured Poets Department combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that's wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic
Rolling Stone
A Certain Ratio
It All Comes Down To This
This set would have been released six months ago if Jez Kerr hadn’t broken his pelvis and fractured a hip
The Arts Desk
A Certain Ratio
It All Comes Down To This
Peering out from the shadow cast by their Band on the Wall contemporaries Joy Division and The Fall, their thirteenth album It All Comes Down To This is their strongest since 1982’s Sextet
The Quietus
A Certain Ratio
It All Comes Down To This
For all their recent productivity and renaissance, A Certain Ratio are no closer to their zeitgeist moment. But with output as strong as this sitting alongside their back catalogue, they are all the stronger for it
Clash
A Certain Ratio
It All Comes Down To This
The band's first full-length project with prolific writer-producer dan Carey mostly stays within familiar punk-funk parameters, but is generally an infectiously kinetic, richly detailed, timeless affair. Print edition only
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