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Loyle Carner  hopefully!

The sounds are slightly different here than on previous albums and his tentative sojourn into singing is a success because his voice connects as easily as his rapping does Albumism

Lorde  Virgin

Lorde trades in her secrecy and mystique for a tremendously healing, desperately relatable record that cements her mark as her generation’s defining artist Northern Transmissions

Lorde  Virgin

On the uncomfortable paths of the 28-year-old’s fourth album, slam-dunk bangers are substituted with reinvention and restraint surrendered through hushed, reflective, and carnal synth-pop vestiges Paste Magazine

Lorde  Virgin

The New Zealand pop star chips away to reveal her purest self on her fourth album NME

Lorde  Virgin

For Lorde, it's an opportunity to reclaim something she thought she had lost long ago, but has always been within her: her true self Exclaim

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

Different Talking introduces some novel elements to the Frankie Cosmos sound, but despite that, their core identity remains intact Spectrum Culture

U.S. Girls  Scratch It

Musically Scratch It will probably be the least memorable in U.S Girls’ discography and aside from ‘Like James Said’ and ‘Bookends‘, the relatively thrill-less album does sort of fly by unnoticeably, made worse by the weak closing track No Fruit God Is In The TV

Lorde  Virgin

Lorde may not break entirely new ground on fourth album Virgin, but its warmth and texture make it consistently compelling and quietly brilliant The Skinny

yeule  Evangelic Girl Is A Gun

A sun-drenched pop album — perhaps the pop record of the summer Under The Radar

Lorde  Virgin

The album is a hesitant step in the right direction for the singer Slant Magazine

Lorde  Virgin

Virgin is Lorde at her best yet as an affective poet and, frustratingly, at her most tamed as a digital sound designer The Line Of Best Fit

Frankie Cosmos  Different Talking

The New York band’s sixth LP feels like a scaled-up team effort. The newly expansive sound suits Greta Kline’s hard-won self-knowledge Pitchfork

Lorde  Virgin

Lorde’s fourth album returns to the digital, physical sound of Melodrama. While rooted somewhat in her past, it’s a gritty, tender, and often transcendent ode to freedom and transformation Pitchfork

Lorde  Virgin

Her fourth album celebrates the messiness of being human – and is also her most compelling and revealing musicOMH

BC Camplight  A Sober Conversation

It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition Far Out