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Bonobo  Distance in Static

For all its multi-locale sessions and noble attempts at breaking down categorisation, Distance in Static just never ventures anywhere too thrilling Bonobo’s worldly electronica flex would try to convince otherwise Far Out

Bonobo  Distance in Static

On what he has hinted may be his final “traditional” LP as Bonobo, the UK producer cycles through moods and styles, with a particular focus on the clubby soundscapes of his DJ era Pitchfork

Bonobo  Distance in Static

By turns studiedly moody and urgently intense, Simon Green's global outlook is at once reassuring and thought provoking musicOMH

Bonobo  Distance in Static

Lush, immersive, and deeply physical, this is his best in a decade Clash

Bonobo  Distance in Static

It's all so smooth that you rarely get a sense of who he is. Print edition only Uncut

Bonobo  Distance in Static

Simon Green's eighth album as Bonobo feels like a celebration - few blend club-adjacent electronica with warm-hearted downtempo quite as adroitly as he does here. Print edition only Mojo

The Tubs  Hard Life

There’s only so many jangly guitars, high-pitched vocals, and tales of moving to the big smoke that one needs in an album before it starts to grate Far Out

The Tubs  Hard Life

It’s a ludicrous, entirely unexpected occurrence when a band release a single album that sounds like a Greatest Hits collection, but track after track, hook after blinding hook, and line after wry line, that’s what we get – every song building on the glistening brilliance of the last God Is In The TV

The Tubs  Hard Life

Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good time The Guardian

The Tubs  Hard Life

Their most fine-tuned and sonically rich album to date, with 12 more fantastically catchy and emotionally turbulent songs in the style they’ve been perfecting along the way All Music

The Tubs  Hard Life

The Welsh band's classic rock twisted indie folk on their third album demonstrates their earwormy ability to write a hook musicOMH

The Tubs  Hard Life

The band’s post-punk-infused songs sink in quickly and stand up to repeat listens Slant Magazine

The Tubs  Hard Life

A record that is a ridiculously hook-heavy collection of songs - and one that unquestionably positions Williams as one of our most unique and arresting contemporary songwriters. Print edition only Uncut

The Tubs  Hard Life

An album that consolidates and amplifies both 2023’s debut Dead Meat and last year’s Cotton Crown, transcending notions of what indie rock is supposed to be in the 21st century Mojo

Bloc Party  Anatomy Of A Brief Romance

Kele Okereke and co have made a concept album and a break-up album all at once – and with Trevor Horn on production duties musicOMH