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Paul McCartney  The Boys of Dungeon Lane

In looking back at his storied past, Paul McCartney offers a record which proves he's never been more alive Rolling Stone UK

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

For its high-powered front and seeming emotional charge, Everyone for Ten Minutes sees Bleachers dwell in a thin score that never strays anywhere intrepid, and is nagged by a hollow, barren lack of guts that never soars into the soaring valleys for which frontman Jack Antonoff’s flapping his arms toward Far Out

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

Ultimately, Everyone For Ten Minutes doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself from the band’s previous outings. Despite some lovely, refreshing variations sprinkled throughout – like the atmospheric slow burn of opener “Sideways” – this is largely the sound of Antonoff planted firmly in his comfort zone The Line Of Best Fit

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

Jack Antonoff produces his most ambitious and unrestrained record to date, but the eclectic bells and whistles still can’t quite shake off his Springsteen-lite affectations Paste Magazine

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

Covering everything from devotion and marriage to grief and death, with instruments ranging from electric guitars to glockenspiels, ‘everyone for ten minutes’ is a bold creation – equal parts solemn and uplifting Clash

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

The ever-present -- and ever-changing -- blend of grief and joy within Bleachers' music is always heartfelt, but it's rarely sounded as rousingly real as it does on Everyone for Ten Minutes All Music

Paul McCartney  The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Music is a drug, so they say. The Beatle/living legend is in his ninth decade, but on his 20th solo album he shows no sign of giving it up musicOMH

Ed O’Brien  Blue Morpho

The Radiohead guitarist has made an uplifting album whose colours are as bright and striking as the butterfly after which it is named musicOMH

Ed O’Brien  Blue Morpho

‘Blue Morpho’ offers a reminder that, as he and his other bandmates have repeatedly proved, O’Brien boasts a wholly-uninhibited approach to how rock and pop music is arranged, resulting in works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself Clash

Kevin Morby  Little Wide Open

Represents a musical homecoming for Morby to the Americana that is central to much of his work No Ripcord

Lykke Li  The Afterparty

On a purportedly final album, the Swedish electro-pop singer’s disenchantment takes shape around sparkling synth and light-touch disco beats Pitchfork

Paul McCartney  The Boys of Dungeon Lane

A richly nostalgic trip that proves this legend is still as creative as ever Rolling Stone

Tori Amos  In Times Of Dragons

Her vocals have rarely sounded better. A husky tone has slowly emerged, giving her a Patti Smith croon to her words of scorn. Anyone who has followed Amos’ career to date will relish this addition to her cannon. It might, hopefully, attract new fans too Under The Radar

Ed O’Brien  Blue Morpho

Full of wonder, full of creativity, and possibility, fully realized and here for our delight. Like the album as a whole this is a truly excellent piece. It features lyrics full of thankfulness as we “feel the grace in all of life, thank you for this time.” What a great note to end a special album on Under The Radar

The Coral  388

By the time the rocksteady sway of “Spirit Catcher” and the effortless pop beauty of “Crossing The Sands” close the album, The Coral seem firmly back in the swing of creating music again. Hiatus done and dusted XS Noize