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Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

All pleasant enough, but much like its predecessor, Flux suffers from too much frictionless filler and too few actual dancefloor bangers. Print edition only Uncut

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

Flux lacks a little of the old uncanny razzle dazzle, but there's no doubting the elegance of its execution or the expertise of its creator. Print edition only Mojo

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

It sounds immaculately like now and yesterday all at once. Print edition only Record Collector

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

She sings about heightened senses, about eroticising sound, about sublime glitterball moments The Arts Desk

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

On Flux, Alison Goldfrapp proves that the 'difficult second album' strikes even veteran industry icons, as solo outing number two floats in an elegant yet directionless orbit The Skinny

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface The Line Of Best Fit

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

Incredibly safe pop music in an already oversaturated market Far Out

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

Like an artist buying more paint, brushes, and canvasses, Levy goes on creating. It’s the process that’s important, and as spacious and enjoyable as the album is at its best moments, it primarily feels like a necessary step to reevaluate inspiration and impetus Beats Per Minute

Osees  Abomination Revealed At Last

The album is not a defining entry in Osees’ vast discography, but a fierce reminder of their talent Northern Transmissions

Babymetal  Metal Forth

METAL FORTH is a statement about metal as an aesthetic rife with individualism; “metal” is not a monolith, and what it is to be “metal” varies from country to country, language to language, band to band Paste Magazine

Ethel Cain  Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You returns Cain to the epic storytelling trilogy she began to weave with Preacher’s Daughter, its narrative giving us a glimpse into the life of another tragic woman from the (fictional) Cain family Spectrum Culture

Osees  Abomination Revealed At Last

Like the preceding Osees records, Abomination Revealed at Last shows off a much leaner, grittier band than the one that spent the Obama era making psychedelic freak-out jams Spectrum Culture

Amaarae  Black Star

Boundary-busting singer's latest is a masterclass in controlled hedonism Rolling Stone

Osees  Abomination Revealed At Last

The prolific garage-rock icon and his bandmates channel their exhaustion with the state of the world into trippy psych-rock and furious punk Pitchfork

Osees  Abomination Revealed At Last

Making mischief of one kind and another in a world gone wrong is what Osees do, and Abomination Revealed at Last is a solid rumpus The Line Of Best Fit