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Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

It’s an album that demands to be heard, experienced, and celebrated – a towering achievement from a once-in-a-generation talent who is only just getting started Dork

Kings Of Leon  Can We Please Have Fun

As long as they’re now able to enjoy themselves and remember why they started playing music together in the first place, that’s all you can ask for Dork

Les Savy Fav  OUI, LSF

14 songs chock-full of purpose, attitude, and humour Dork

A.G. Cook  Britpop

Less sprawling and all-encompassing than his previous seven-disc opus ‘7G’ and its curious partner ‘Apple’ released in 2020, ‘Britpop’ feels like the perfect encapsulation of A. G. Cook, the artist Dork

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

A bold, well-crafted pop record Sputnik Music (staff)

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

It’s an ambitious, focused, condensed and intimate and knowing piece of work The Arts Desk

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

This is a brave album from a woman who doesn’t shrink from darkness The Arts Desk

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

More than thirty years on from her game changing musical debut, Beth Gibbons’ first solo effort plates up a hearty blend of poetry and psychedelia, stirred in amongst a helping of folk, and finished off beautifully with her stunning voice. It’s hard to resist coming back for seconds God Is In The TV

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

Much like its climactic track, Death Jokes is enigmatic, overwhelming, and even indulgent, but it is also a singular and stirring effort, one which rewards those who choose to untangle its knots Under The Radar

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

Lives Outgrown is a collection that will make you feel small, such is its world view and acknowledgement of the natural world’s — and time’s — brutal indifference to human suffering Under The Radar

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

Hit Me Hard and Soft makes you marvel at how far she’s traveled as a pop artiste Rolling Stone

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

The album is a world unto itself and the most fully realized version of the singer’s sound Slant Magazine

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

Nonconformist at heart, Hit Me Hard and Soft’s sonic realm she constructs alongside Finneas adds even more bizarre quirks to the definitive palette The Line Of Best Fit

Arab Strap  I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

There's a playfulness to their genre-hopping tact, with Moffat fitting his often-loose prose to warped club beats (Bliss), folk twang (Molehills), and 80s-inspired soft-rock (You're Not There) No Ripcord

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

Tender, weird, emotional, surreal, and completely unique – this might be the very best pop album of 2024 musicOMH