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Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

In just two years, Charli XCX has moved on from Brat to make an album that delivers exactly what its title promises: Music, Fashion, Film. The only question is whether everyone else is ready to move on with her XS Noize

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

The songs deliver flashes of Lennonesque pop power alongside Hitchcock’s ever-present, ebullient whimsy. Across the album, he draws on his well-honed gifts as a songwriter while still showing a willingness to move outside his usual orbit XS Noize

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

For longtime fans, it should feel like a welcome reaffirmation; for newcomers, it’s a vivid introduction to a songwriter whose oddball vision remains, thankfully, very much alive God Is In The TV

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

This is the work of a legitimately great vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter who hasn't fallen into a rut or lost the plot, and he and The Confuser are a joy to behold All Music

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

Hitchcock is still at the peak of his powers, nearly sixty years on from The Soft Boys. ‘The Confuser’ is a testament to that, with each song bemusing and mystifying in their own unique way Clash

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

If The Confuser's Fab-Macca-goes-pub-rock thing will irk some, true believers will delight at its resolutely sunny take on death and decline. Print edition only Mojo

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

It's excellent, full of psychedelic songs that spiral off into kaleidoscopic directions, courtesy of full-band arrangements and some very special guests. Print edition only Record Collector

Robyn Hitchcock  The Confuser

A preppy blast of garage-pop that could have followed 1980's Underwater Moonlight. Print edition only Uncut

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

Though Is This It and The New Abnormal were frequently worlds apart musically, they both had a spirit that, sadly, isn't always present here. At once overdone and undercooked, Reality Awaits often embodies its feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction all too well All Music

Genesis Owusu  Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge

Over three distinctive releases, Owusu has proven he can play in almost any arena, and Redstar Wu is his finest hour yet All Music

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas’ side projects with his band’s gift for pop minimalism, the New Yorkers are on playful, joyous form The Guardian

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

What must it be like to be Charli XCX in a post-Brat universe? The singer tells you all about it on this engaging, spirited LP The Irish Times

Shania Twain  Little Miss Twain

With guests including Tanya Tucker, T Bone Burnett, and Josh Homme, the country star’s seventh album trades the pop sheen of recent releases for rootsy, candidly autobiographical songwriting Pitchfork

The Strokes  Reality Awaits

New York outfit's seventh album sums up the band themselves - sometimes brilliant, often frustrating, but always worth listening to musicOMH

Charli XCX  Music, Fashion, Film

‘Music, Fashion, Film’ isn’t about to inspire a No One Lasts Forever Autumn: its unsettling brilliance is there to be savoured in quiet privacy, not under the bright lights of a club. All the same, it really is brilliant, and it deserves a very different kind of attention from its artist’s previous output Clash