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Raye  This Music May Contain Hope

Full of big ambition and packed with emotional intelligence, 'This Music May Contain Hope' is RAYE at her most fearless. Every risk feels justified, every wild idea fully formed. It's a bold, all-feelings-on-deck mission statement that confirms her as one of pop's most compelling voices Dork

Raye  This Music May Contain Hope

THIS MUSIC MAY HOPE. is a fascinating yet nebulous project, a pompous and lavish exploration that would have been better on the stage, with backup dancers, percussion, and RAYE as the star in the center of it all Northern Transmissions

Fcukers  Ö

On their debut, the New York duo’s brash charm reverberates through kinetic club energy and after-hours haze, even if the end result plays it a little safe Paste Magazine

Flea  Honora

To riff on a previously-alluded-to quote from Nick Cave: I'm forever near a stereo saying, "What is this beautiful ambient-jazz odyssey?" And the answer is always Flea Exclaim

Raye  This Music May Contain Hope

The British star delivers a 73-minute autobiography of romantic despair and nonstop emotional turmoil. It's a lot — and all the better for it Rolling Stone

Robyn  Sexistential

The Swedish pop phenom's latest effort is strange, vibrant, and plenty of fun Consequence Of Sound

The Twilight Sad  It's The Long Goodbye

After a long hiatus, the Twilight Sad return with a new lineup to deliver raw emotion centered on James Graham’s mental health struggles and his mother’s death PopMatters

Flea  Honora

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist reignited his childhood love of the trumpet to make his first solo album: a mature, sophisticated collection of songs featuring stars of the L.A. jazz scene Pitchfork

Raye  This Music May Contain Hope

A certain contender for end of the year lists, this is an album of rare scale and energy, one that’s been designed to come back to time and time again musicOMH

Robyn  Sexistential

The cherry on the cake on her first album in eight years is beats, riffs and production that don’t just usher you towards the dancefloor, they demand you meet them there musicOMH

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

A welcome return from AC Newman’s power-poppers, a band who deserve to be at the forefront of any Canadian indie music revival musicOMH

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

A gorgeous, meditative collection of songwriting about life in the 21st century Hot Press

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

Stirring indie pop that shows the Canadian collective still shine Far Out

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

The Vancouver band’s 10th album is all too aware of what most of us are feeling like these days, and rather than acting as a distraction or rebuttal to the state of the world, it invites us to look straight at it Paste Magazine

The New Pornographers  The Former Site Of

It's another subtle outing from a band whose energetic peaks once defined them, but in this later period opt for patience over power All Music