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Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

If anything, Charli should’ve probably taken more time to develop this release – especially considering she just released Wuthering Heights earlier in the year. With a bit more time and development, Music, Fashion, Film could’ve been Sputnik Music (staff)

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

I’m a huge advocate for Auto-Tune when it's used with purpose, but here it feels like it's fighting against everything that made The Strokes great The Arts Desk

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

The veteran band’s latest album is an at times thrilling, often inscrutable, sometimes straight-up bizarre addition to their story Rolling Stone

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

It’s The New Abnormal with fewer guardrails, with a dash more Voidz, with whatever nutso energy comes from recording with Rick Rubin in Costa Rica Consequence Of Sound

Yard Act  You're Gonna Need A Little Music

The UK band smooths out its characteristically jagged post-punk for a vaguely uplifting album that brings to mind lots of older British rock groups Pitchfork

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

Latest experimental offering from Charlotte Aitchison may sail close to self-indulgence but also cements her status as one of our most compelling pop stars musicOMH

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

As old songs become cultural artefacts and time folds in on itself, The Strokes rotate the lens outwards and inwards. What comes next? The future feels more ominous and isolating than hopeful, and that lack of resolve is the reality we have to prepare for Clash

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

If Brat was the nightclub, then this feels like three hours into the after party that you never wanted to be at, full of posers chatting shite about “real incestuous vibes” Far Out

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

The pop star’s seventh album plays around with a number of ideas about her three favourite artforms, along with questions of identity and self-worth. It’s strange to hear her sounding so unsure of herself after the neon-green boldness of ‘Brat’ The Independent

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

Her proper follow-up to Brat is a brilliant, catchy, often very funny look at the machinery of fame Rolling Stone

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

Brilliant writing that is subtle and clever, delivered with arrogance, irony and self deprecation Beats Per Minute

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

On the follow-up to BRAT, the pop auteur pivots to a referential, proudly tossed-off rock sound that offers mystifying glances behind the curtain of stardom Pitchfork

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

Her art dips into legacies without being beholden to them, rejecting references as soon as she invokes them, creating a playful contradiction that feels like her own post-postmodern language The Line Of Best Fit

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

How do you follow up the album that made you a star – and a caricature? In classic Charli style: with a pivot to guitar and a meta masterpiece about the instability of identity The Guardian

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

A candid, introspective triumph that leaves just enough of the dancefloor well and truly alive DIY