Erykah Badu & The Alchemist
Before the World Blows
Their long-promised collaboration, which is also Badu’s first proper album in 16 years, plays to both of their strengths and delivers exactly what fans have been waiting for
Rolling Stone
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist
Before the World Blows
The neo-soul priestess and the hip-hop producer throw it back on a seductive, pleasantly rambly collaborative album that returns them both to their roots.
Pitchfork
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
It captures the specific, suffocating feeling of living through collapse better than almost anything else I’ve heard this year
Northern Transmissions
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
Leave it to Chat Pile to turn a compendium of horrors into something exquisite
The Line Of Best Fit
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their third album lacks the distinction of earlier releases
The Guardian
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
The Oklahoma sludge-metal band has never spoken in subtleties, but its third album is its most pointed statement yet: a merciless depiction of a world in decline
Pitchfork
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
The Oklahoma City sludge-metal band’s third album takes capitalism to task with blood-curdling screams, disgusting basslines, and pulverizing drums fit for a bloody horror film
Paste Magazine
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
An extraordinary record; a layered portrait of a world sleepwalking into disaster that is somehow gripping and even fun, in a mosh-the-pain-away manner
Clash
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
It's messier, more draining and the clearest version yet of what Chat Pile do best: making unbearable music for an unbearable world hurtling toward the sun
Exclaim
The Linda Lindas
Gotta Get Out
The L.A. quartet expands its sound for its major-label debut, channeling post-adolescent anxiety into pop-punk inflected with new-wave, hardcore, and post-punk
Pitchfork
Dexy Midnight Runners
LOVE
It’s easy to be charmed by LOVE, which transcends place and generation to immerse us once again in the Dexys Midnight Runners world: a place shaped by the many forms of love a life can encounter, with Rowland as riveting a protagonist as ever
The Line Of Best Fit
Jim James
Wowed Out
Once again, Wowed Out proves James’ incredible range, leaving the listener in a sense of awe
Under The Radar