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Gilla Band  Pugnello

This earhole-scouring noise isn't for everyone. But if you possess the itch Pugnello satisfies, you'll scratch 'til you bleed. Print edition only Mojo

Gilla Band  Pugnello

As always, frontman Dara Kiely's brio and wit somehow prevent it from devolving into chaos. Print edition only Uncut

Gilla Band  Pugnello

Pugnello finds the band focused and reinvigorated. Print edition only Rolling Stone

Ezra Collective  Here Because of Hope

There are fewer showpiece guest moments than last time. But the world the album covers is wider, and the playing is the best argument in it. Joe Armon-Jones and the Koleoso brothers have been locked together since their Tomorrow’s Warriors days, and it shows in how little any of this strains The Quietus

Gilla Band  Pugnello

Placed alongside their contemporaries in the last decade’s post-punk boom, what they’re doing is far harder to define, and a great deal more interestin The Line Of Best Fit

Julia Jacklin  The Gem

If The Gem is frequently beguiling, it’s for this tamped volatility or simmering despondence, a not-so-quiet desperation bubbling in the depths The Line Of Best Fit

Julia Jacklin  The Gem

The album asks what independence is worth when it starts to look like crushing loneliness Slant Magazine

Julia Jacklin  The Gem

The Gem’s highlights will easily stand alongside Jacklin’s multi-faceted works to date Under The Radar

Ezra Collective  Here Because of Hope

This is a fun record, perhaps lacking the surprise factor of a major hit like “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing,” but still clearly cementing them as a key act who are growing, as well as spreading joy wherever they go Under The Radar

Echo And The Bunnymen  Apples For Isaac

For the most part, Apples For Isaac holds up extremely well God Is In The TV

Beabadoobee  Pylon

On her fourth album, beabadoobee has taken some of the alternative influences that have always been present in her music and pushed them further Spectrum Culture

Bonobo  Distance in Static

The eighth album from the electronic veteran has its moments but runs out of gas Spectrum Culture

Gilla Band  Pugnello

Their fiercest, most ruminative release to date DIY

Bloc Party  Anatomy Of A Brief Romance

The story of the UK band’s seventh studio album is bound to conjure more eye-rolls than sympathy Paste Magazine

Gilla Band  Pugnello

The Irish post-punkers’ abrasive fourth album is a masterwork in wrenching the beautiful from the ugly Paste Magazine