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PISS  You Made Me / Skin on Linen

This Vancouver quartet have untied that Gordian knot and created something startling, combining monodrama scripts, non-linear broken glass bottle musical atmospherics and historical sample that dance into the sons like some sort of living theatre. Print edition only Mojo

PISS  You Made Me / Skin on Linen

A brutal album that feels extremely vulnerable as PISS presents their record through a series of progressive sonic tableaux that is equally powerful and heartbreaking Spill Magazine

Queens Of The Stone Age  Perfecth

This album, approached with an open mind and given time, will offer something more on every listen Clash

DIIV  ZIRP!

A gorgeous and at times haunting shoegaze evolution Clash

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

These jams meander into stoned whimsey at times but the journey is never boring. Print edition only Uncut

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

Ishmael Butler delivers a mixture of swampy arrangements, surreal vocal production and vintage braggadocio feels distinctive, coherent, and fun musicOMH

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

Ishmael Butler explores the cosmos within on a shadowy and uncharacteristically introspective new album Pitchfork

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

Ishmael Butler’s Shabazz Palaces project moves through time, space and genre on It’s a Style Sport, extending his relevance for another generation of listeners Spectrum Culture

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

Ishmael Butler’s latest transforms a lifetime of flyness into a moral code, then puts it on trial Slant Magazine

Shabazz Palaces  It’s A Style Sport

Ishmael Butler is a cosmically liberated and confident virtuoso on one of this year’s rap achievements Paste Magazine

PISS  You Made Me / Skin on Linen

This cathartic scream of unflinching feminist rage might be the most thrilling, challenging and important album to be released this year musicOMH

DIIV  ZIRP!

The shoegaze band teams with producer A. G. Cook for its most pop-leaning record yet. Despite some welcome shifts in tone, the best moments sound like no one but DIIV Pitchfork

Johnny Marr  The Age of Everything

The melodies here are sharper than on any of his previous solo outings The Quietus

Queens Of The Stone Age  Perfecth

Josh Homme turns personal struggles into a cinematic, psychedelic, and unexpectedly hopeful return to form Consequence Of Sound

Queens Of The Stone Age  Perfecth

Taking a more introspective tone, the band's latest LP offers a toned down, introspective version of their modern hard-rock Rolling Stone