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Death In Vegas  Death Mask

Juddering drum tracks are surrounded by a fog-like haze of effects, smudging the canvas like a muddy weather system The Arts Desk

Death In Vegas  Death Mask

A surprisingly moving reflection of the big issues - family, death and companionship - as he processes his feelings through caustic noise and deep-flanged techno. Print edition only Uncut

Death In Vegas  Death Mask

Death Mask makes for a visceral, at time abrasive listen. Print edition only Mojo

Death In Vegas  Death Mask

Fearless has taken the Death in Vegas project in numerous seemingly unrelated directions over the years, and few who have been following him since the big beat era could have predicted him making noisy, uncompromising techno influenced by Terrence Dixon and Pan Sonic All Music

Death In Vegas  Death Mask

On Death Mask, Fearless lifts the lid on what lies beneath and exposes his true self in ways that he’s always been reluctant to entertain. Fearless honesty suits him. The Quietus

Death In Vegas  Death Mask

Richard Fearless returns with an intoxicating mix of an album where darker realisations and hedonistic beats compete for the same headspace musicOMH

Pulp  More

More is that rarest of reunion records: one that transcends nostalgia to actually enhance a band’s legacy. Print edition only Mojo

Pulp  More

They've matured- not like a fine wine, but maybe like a magnificently ripe Wensleydale. Print edition only Uncut

Little Simz  Lotus

It showcases Little Simz’s personal resilience as she takes on this vulnerable melodic journey to selflessly blossom in her introversion Clash

Miley Cyrus  Something Beautiful

A fascinating one-off, potentially; ‘Something Beautiful’ adds another layer to Miley Cyrus’ story Clash

Turnstile  Never Enough

Few bands at their level are innovating and shapeshifting in the way they are, and ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ covers a massive expanse whilst also maintaining the core of Turnstile we fell in love with on ‘Pressure To Succeed’. And succeed they have Clash

Pulp  More

Opener ‘Spike Island’ is already a fan favourite, a meta-musing on the Stone Roses’ gathering-of-the-tribes that has become the soundtrack to Pulp’s very own second coming Clash

Little Simz  Lotus

Expansive in scope yet intimate in tone, the sixth album by this year’s Meltdown curator doesn’t put a foot wrong musicOMH

Garbage  Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

The alt-rock veterans’ eighth album lacks the bite of their 2021 LP; despite typically expert production, the songwriting is noncommittal—though Shirley Manson remains a fierce, commanding presence Pitchfork

Sports Team  Boys These Days

Sports Team are smart band incorporating bits and pieces of past music they love into their own modern sound and dryly funny lyrical point of view PopMatters