Jess Williamson
A Mile South Of Heaven
Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country music, rebuilding it as something familiar yet different
The Guardian
Jess Williamson
A Mile South Of Heaven
A more confident, self-assured songwriter is torn between two very different worlds, where her truest home might actually be that stretch of highway that shuttles her back and forth
Paste Magazine
Jess Williamson
A Mile South Of Heaven
Like good whiskey, Williamson doesn't need fancy production
The Line Of Best Fit
Jess Williamson
A Mile South Of Heaven
Torn between Texas and Topanga but fully herself, the songwriter sounds at home in the outlaw country idiom on an intimate, searching new record produced by Shooter Jennings
Pitchfork
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
As dark chroniclers of their age, Fontaines D.C. are here to illuminate the gloom
Mojo
Troye Sivan
She's The Best
Troye Sivan’s fourth album pushes his pop further out while staying rooted in love, memory and the women who shaped him
Still Listening
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
Dopamine Chamber finds Fontaines moving even further away from the live guitar emphasis of their earlier work – embracing new styles in ways that are, by turns, liberating and devastating
Hot Press
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
When a band reaches a certain size, a lot of people start claiming they were better before they got big. We defy anyone to listen to 'Dopamine Chamber' and make that claim in good faith - this is a band firing on all cylinders and staking their claim to be the best band of their generation
Dork
Cameron Winter
Live at Carnegie Hall
As effective as Winter may be when it comes to playing frontman – for Geese or some other ensemble – he’s equally effective, if not more so, by himself, alone under the proverbial spotlight, his songs brimming with mystery, grief, and flashes of humor
Beats Per Minute
Remi Wolf
Mud
The LA-based indie-pop singer streamlines the silly-sweet cleverness and adventurous flourishes of her previous efforts into a more melancholic and cohesive work
Paste Magazine
Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare To Dream
Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album offers wisdom, warmth, comfort and hope, wrapped in beguilingly gentle and sensitive folk-inflected songs; it's a beautiful and perfectly realized record, if slightly lacking the fire of the band’s earlier work
Spectrum Culture
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
On Dopamine Chamber, the Irish band reaches further into electronic moodiness while delivering hard-hitting reflections on how to stay sane — and maybe even hopeful — these days
Rolling Stone