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Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

Still at the top of their game and occupying their own esteemed place in the British pop pantheon, the Pet Shop Boys are as familiarly brilliant as ever Dork

Pillow Queens  Name Your Sorrow

Grounding like the first sting of cold air on a fresh spring morning, ‘Name Your Sorrow’ is for the tired, tender hearts who, despite it all, keep on hoping. Pillow Queens have produced yet another triumph Dork

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight The Independent

Waxahatchee  Tigers Blood

While Waxahatchee has never sounded more suited for sprawling crowds and mass approval, Crutchfield has never seemed truer to herself Uncut

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

The singer-songwriter’s latest record focuses less on role playing and more on exploring extreme states of mind The FT

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

Even when they don’t quite hit the mark, they remain a curiously compelling act who play by their own rules – chaos remains their lifeblood, for good and for bad musicOMH

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

A certain rock'n'roll energy is lacking. Print edition only Mojo

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

Forgiveness Is Yours sometimes becomes too diffuse, hampered by a surplus of bold ideas that do not get all the necessary follow-through. But it Abounds with queasy pleasures all the same. Print edition only Uncut

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

There is certainly the sense of Forgiveness Is Yours as a feet finding record, an undeniable result of losing one of the essential reasons Fat White Family are what they are The Line Of Best Fit

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

The band creates an undercurrent of anxiety with mismatched rhythms, drum fills, and subtle dissonance Slant Magazine

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Finds Beam doing what he does best, refining those songwriting touches and instrumental backdrops that are present in his most captivating work Under The Radar

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

You might assume, given the title, that beam's seventh full-length album as iron & Wine is lightweight and whimsical. Actually it's pretty magnificent. Print edition only Mojo

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Light Verse rejoices in its playful details. Print edition only Uncut

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

If not one necessarily to win over new fans, this will delight longtime fans who have been along for the ride Clash

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Quirky yet profound, playful but often deeply moving, Light Verse is a record to savour in one sitting, its ten tracks comprising a seriously impressive whole that’s considerably more potent than the sum of its unfailingly impressive individual parts The Line Of Best Fit