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Arlo Parks  Ambiguous Desire

Compared to her previous work, Ambiguous Desire is quite the left turn for Arlo Parks. However, it’s a left turn that takes her back into what drew people into her music in the first place Spectrum Culture

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Slayyyter’s album is packed with exertions that are sure to leave you breathless Slant Magazine

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Chasing the highs of her Tumblr-addled youth, Slayyyter finds her sound in a new strain of brash, sleazy pop NME

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

An unstoppable pop moment, ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’ offers proof that SLAYYYTER is ready to be the best Clash

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Slayyyter certainly cribs from many of her dance influences on WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, she never fails to make them her own All Music

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Smelling like burnt rubber and mall body mist, the pop provocateur’s loud, wild new album swerves hard into club antagonism Pitchfork

Slayyyter  Wor$T Girl In America

Slayyyter’s third full-length, Wor$t Girl in America, is a diamond-hard jawbreaker of a pop record, a totally self-immolating blaze of glory, a final roar before extinction PopMatters

Thundercat  Distracted

Tapping celebrity guests like A$AP Rocky and Tame Impala for an album of silky cosmic funk, Thundercat channels the id of the geeky, emotionally maladjusted loner Pitchfork

deary  Birding

Textural delights that deserve more impactful songwriting Far Out

deary  Birding

For a collection of songs so preoccupied with vulnerability and honing in closely, Birding feels remarkably expansive which comes from how it makes small moments feel significant rather than sounding noisily grand in a cinematic sense The Line Of Best Fit

deary  Birding

A stepping stone to more original work to come? Could well be. Print edition only Uncut

deary  Birding

Birding takes wing with mellifluous delicacy and sturdy dynamism, held in fine balance. Print edition only Record Collector

deary  Birding

Birding doesn’t rewrite the rulebook of dream-pop or invent a new tonal language, and may not be as innovative or groundbreaking as Cocteau Twins or Slowdive records; however, it offers a wealth of familiar joys that captures the classic 4AD shimmer without the experimental opaque-ness, and is just as rewarding a listen as the classics that inspired it Under The Radar

deary  Birding

The dreampop trio's ornithologically minded debut sports a clear aesthetic and sense of control, with echoes of shoegaze's storied soft-focus progenitors musicOMH

deary  Birding

It makes for an exquisite and fitting debut for the Bella Union label, which is run by Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde All Music