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PUP  Who Will Look After The Dogs?

Pup does a great job of dressing up radio friendly alternative rock as chaotic on Who Will Look After The Dogs? Spill Magazine

Emma-Jean Thackray  Weirdo

It is pretty clear that this album represents a sink/swim moment of monumental scale for Emma-Jean Thackray Albumism

Model/Actriz  Pirouette

Model/Actriz have the apocalypse on their side, as these songs of embodiment and frightening tenderness are thrown into ever cooler societies Beats Per Minute

PUP  Who Will Look After The Dogs?

This is an album that really hurts – but it’s also a defiant declaration that pain doesn’t last forever, even if it sometimes feels like it might Kerrang!

Lucius  Lucius

A darn good album of wonderfully constructed and deeply confessional songs Northern Transmissions

Lucius  Lucius

Anchored by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, the music on the band’s latest effort recaptures the tightly focused, intensely collaborative energy of four people who are locked into each other’s creative capabilities Paste Magazine

William Tyler  Time Indefinite

The newest album from the Nashville guitarist forgoes the restless psychedelia of his previous effort, collaging the purposeless play of Cage and finger-picking of Fahey into a flavor unbound to just one page of the American folk songbook Paste Magazine

Blondshell  If You Asked for a Picture

The album is full of sonically gentle but emotionally cutting indie rock à la Phoebe Bridgers, Samia and Indigo De Souza, while also referencing the classic alternative rock of the '90s and early 2000s Exclaim

Arcade Fire  Pink Elephant

Arcade Fire used to burn bright, but a fire can’t survive when all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room Sputnik Music (staff)

PUP  Who Will Look After The Dogs?

Who Will Look After the Dogs? is a long way from a perfect record, but this is no obstacle to respecting it on its own terms Sputnik Music (staff)

Blondshell  If You Asked for a Picture

If You Asked for a Picture is the type of second album that doubles down on what makes an artist work, rather than attempt reinvention Spectrum Culture

PUP  Who Will Look After The Dogs?

On their fifth album, the grandeur, pseudo-concept and meta elements of Toronto-punks PUP’s last album are mostly gone—however, self-excoriation, a big sound and a willingness to change things up have always been part of the PUP experience Spectrum Culture

Car Seat Headrest  The Scholars

If The Scholars falls short of greatness, it does so swinging for the fences Spectrum Culture

Arcade Fire  Pink Elephant

It balances huge arena heft, synth throb and an ear-pleasingly smeary murk The Arts Desk

Djo  The Crux

For the most part, the album is a well pruned garden of musical history centered around Djo’s charming storytelling and personality Under The Radar