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Madonna  Confessions II

On her most vital album in over two decades, pop music’s grande dame proves she still knows how to make us move NME

Madonna  Confessions II

After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back? nicely into? old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York The Guardian

Madonna  Confessions II

A celebration of the dance floor that incorporates tributes to her earliest days on New York’s club scene, the queen of pop’s new music is engineered to make you move, or indeed, sweat The Independent

Beth Orton  The Ground Above

As fatigued as the space created by The Ground Above may be, it never gives into despair. To the contrary, it finds comfort in both motion and solitude Beats Per Minute

Chanel Beads  Your Day Will Come

This is a record that asks for a slower kind of attention, one that finds difference inside repetition instead of beyond it. In a moment when listening is increasingly shaped by acceleration and novelty, Chanel Beads makes a persuasive case for lingering a little longer Northern Transmissions

Lizzo  Bitch

The singer’s return to the limelight arrives mean-spirited, out of touch, and woefully inconsistent Paste Magazine

Beth Orton  The Ground Above

Another immersive, collaborative collection that grounds itself in her efforts to connect with others, embrace the present, and insist on survival Paste Magazine

Muse  The Wow! Signal

After a deep discography of sci-fi epics, dystopias and spiritual yearning, Muse varies the formula a little — but fails to wow Spectrum Culture

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

It leaps out of the speakers from the off, sticking out its Kali tongue and raging against any dying of the light The Arts Desk

Vince Staples  Cry Baby

Cry Baby is comforting, filling, and just a bit weird—exactly the kind of meat and potatoes we’ve come to expect from Vince Staples God Is In The TV

Muse  The Wow! Signal

We’re a long way from Showbiz, but Muse deserve credit for not caring about relevance and doing things as they want to, as they always seem to have done. The Wow! Signal is a strong collection of real quality and, more than that, is a thoroughly enjoyable listen Under The Radar

Muse  The Wow! Signal

The U.K. neo-prog band’s latest, is a predictably heavy lift Rolling Stone

Beth Orton  The Ground Above

On her snowy, self-produced ninth album, the UK songwriter howls from inside the squall Pitchfork

Muse  The Wow! Signal

The band’s 10th album makes a return to gargantuan, ambivalent, overleveraged Muse form Pitchfork

Swim Deep  Hum

A finely balanced record, ‘Hum’ seems to find Swim Deep fully comfortable in their own skins – mature but also refreshing, it stands as their finest project to date Clash