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David Byrne  Who Is The Sky

Byrne is one of pop’s great collaborators, and in his quest to make a record that goes around the world in 37 minutes, he arms himself with the sizeable Ghost Train Orchestra The Line Of Best Fit

Deftones  Private Music

It sits firmly in the upper echelon of the band’s catalogue as one of their best Beats Per Minute

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

Pop's pithiest lyricist hones the fun and flirty persona that's made her a superstar NME

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

To return with a record so deeply personal and well-written that it feels like a complete reintroduction without any reinvention is an incredible feat, and in this instance, has made for one of the finest LPs to be released this year Exclaim

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

Although GUSH’s start-stop-start cadence makes it hard for listeners to fully sink into a groove here, the album’s few standout tracks will fit nicely on any dance playlist Under The Radar

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

With GUSH, her artistic profundity continues to beam with ambition and warrants rhapsodic praise. The next philosophical journey she’ll take us on may be one even closer towards what feels like her The Line Of Best Fit

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

On her most social, libidinal collection of songs to date, the Los Angeles musician combines cerebral synthesis with beats inflected by two-step, dancehall, and ballroom Pitchfork

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

Gush is inventive and unpredictable. On the other hand, it’s more direct and less phantasmagorical than the predecessor The Quietus

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  Gush

The electronic composer’s latest album leans hard toward pop, but still favors ornamentation over direct jolts Spectrum Culture

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

It is not cohesive or intelligent enough to be so explicit, and is far too overt to be a fun pop album The Arts Desk

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

An adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results The Skinny

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound Rolling Stone

Big Thief  Double Infinity

The band sheds their usual ragged, rustic style in favor of a more polished approach Slant Magazine

Shame  Cutthroat

More eclectic than before and outgrowing easy categorisation, this is the sound of a band performing at the peak of their powers musicOMH

Saint Etienne  International

To the end, Saint Etienne have never faltered on their mission statement. Magic is here. Believe Record Collector