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Marissa Nadler  New Radiations

The self-produced 'New Radiations' is an ethereal album which is also very sparse The Arts Desk

Marissa Nadler  New Radiations

While New Radiations may be Marissa Nadler’s most stripped-down album yet, it confirms her strength as a vulnerable storyteller in an era of frequent isolation Northern Transmissions

Marissa Nadler  New Radiations

New radiations is not without moments of ponderous stasis. Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods, though. Print edition only Mojo

Marissa Nadler  New Radiations

Nadler's richly layered vocals are especially enthralling whenever she applies her featherlight delivery to ideas and images that subvert her music's surface appearance of serentiy. Print edition only Uncut

Marissa Nadler  New Radiations

"Bad Dreams Summertime" is a standout among a truly immersive set, thanks largely to ghostly girl group-type backing vocals, shifting tonal centers, and lyrics that confuse time, imagination, and reality ("False recollections, the wrong soundtrack") All Music

Alison Goldfrapp  Flux

Her second solo album and first as an independent artist finds her in a relative comfort zone, maintaining a glacial and breathy control musicOMH

The Black Keys  No Rain, No Flowers

Although the garage vibe of their records is what shaped their identity, shaking things up didn't hurt. It’s an LP that would have seen the light of day at some point, so why not now Sputnik Music (staff)

Ada Lea  When I Paint My Masterpiece

The Montreal singer-songwriter’s third album is an eclectic, homespun reappraisal of what it means to be an artist Paste Magazine

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

The album is a sepia-toned serving of smooth nostalgia, arguably at its best when it leans into the reverie with a riff that calls upon a relaxed stroll Far Out

Ethel Cain  Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Willoughby Tucker is gentler than Preacher's Daughter, for which it serves as a prequel, but its hazy instrumentation and gnawing lyrics hit just as hard A.V. Club

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

His best work finds a melody and swims with it; here, too many songs tread water. Interior Live Oak is as much an exhibition of McCombs’s range as it is a reminder that range alone isn’t enough Northern Transmissions

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

With existential lullabies and ritualistic stomps, tear-jerking odes and ballads worthy of Sinatra, US indie’s steadfast storyteller makes a wonderfully unhurried double album his best yet The Guardian

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

Offering a little something for everyone in the McCombs fandom, Interior Live Oak is both a little more moving than the wry songwriter's typical output and a little on the long side, although it may be just the thing for a contemplative Sunday afternoon All Music

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

An album of layered, witty and fully felt elisions. Print edition only Record Collector

Cass McCombs  Interior Live Oak

There are startling moments: the title track’s D&D blues-rock, for example, The Groundhogs doing The Tempest in a nasty basement; or Juvenile’s ice-rink keyboards, McCombs ennobling and mocking adolescence (“You suck/I suck/Primus sucks”). Print edition only Mojo