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Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

Each creative filament feels fully charged, dancing across tides of mercurial water. Lattimore’s harp echoes and elevates a time that harks back to a more distant past and Barwick’s synths and siren-calls keeps us in the glass-edged moment The Quietus

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

The combination of ambient luminary Julianna Barwick and celestial harpist Mary Lattimore makes for gorgeous listening The Skinny

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

Lattimore's harp is beautifully clean, and Barwick's vocals less affected than usual. Print edition only Uncut

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore  Tragic Magic

By turns numinous and spectral. Print edition only Mojo

Courtney Marie Andrews  Valentine

The beauty of ‘Valentine’ lies in Courtney Marie Andrews’ unique ability to shift between multiple vocal textures. Her aching pain is felt in her vocals and unguarded lyricism, a looseness that gives the album its emotional weight Clash

Courtney Marie Andrews  Valentine

An explicitly confessional record attempting to make sense of, and give vent to, a degree of personal turbulence. Print edition only Uncut

Courtney Marie Andrews  Valentine

An ornate folk album that brims with rich orchestration and incisive lyrics. Print edition only Record Collector

Courtney Marie Andrews  Valentine

Music that's moving, beautiful and uplifting. Print edition only Mojo

The Sha La Das  Your Picture

It makes for a great story as well as great music, and if you're looking for the perfect soundtrack for quiet storm night in your home, Your Picture is worthy of your consideration All Music

The Sha La Das  Your Picture

If you like your teen dreams served a la Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, you'll find plenty to swoon along to here. And no nonsense. Print edition only Mojo

The Sha La Das  Your Picture

Your Picture is full of love, radiating Beach Boys bliss with that killer thread of melancholy, and evoking Pastor TL Barrett's choral devotionals. Print edition only Uncut

Jenny on Holiday  Quicksand Heart

Brilliantly bittersweet walk on pop’s melancholy side The Irish Times

Dry Cleaning  Secret Love

Dry Cleaning sound more expansive and present than ever on Secret Love, transcending their role as sprechgesang post-punk standard-bearers to become innovators whose surreal, poetic expressions of emotion reveal hearts as open as their eyes All Music

The Cribs  Selling A Vibe

There is a lyrical and performative change in the record that evidently sees The Cribs turning a corner in their career and driving off into something of a sunset, buoyed by an acceptance of their poppier tropes Far Out

Dry Cleaning  Secret Love

For a band that started out as snarky bohemians, even doomsday romanticists, collapsarians who nevertheless believed in the redemptive properties of art, that’s a pretty defeatist position Beats Per Minute