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Claire Rousay
Sentiment
Channelling her signature sound into an album of emo-inflected pop songs, sentiment is claire rousay’s most personal work to date
The Skinny
Claire Rousay
Sentiment
The Los Angeles-based composer and singer-songwriter’s latest collection delivers a spectrum of emotions colored by expressive, refreshing candor
Paste Magazine
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
Though haunted by the phantoms of what could’ve been, Taylor’s most cathartic release to have created is her most cathartic to listen to; a spell-binding, toxic, chaotic illustration of what floating adrift and losing yourself looks like
Clash
Nia Archives
Silence Is Loud
Exuding femme energy – she’s frequently DJ’d to women-only spaces – she taps into an often neglected aspect of jungle history, while writing a few chapters of her own. An early Mercury tip? Don’t bet against it
Clash
Pearl Jam
Dark Matter
Trimming back the excess of their recent experimental streak, it finds the band digging back into their core values – ruthlessly entertaining, often moving, it’s an undoubted thriller for fans
Clash
Mount Kimbie
The Sunset Violent
By trusting their own collaborative spirit and hard-earned wisdom, Mount Kimbie’s inward search expands their sound beautifully outwards
Crack
Cloud Nothings
Final Summer
With spruced-up production highlighting new subtleties in their sound, yet never abandoning their melodic fundamentals, the Cleveland indie rockers’ latest radiates a renewed sense of purpose
Pitchfork
Lucy Rose
This Ain't The Way You Go Out
After a life-changing illness, the UK folk singer returns with a gentle, subtly experimental album that finds hard-won solace in motherhood and recovery
Pitchfork
Maggie Rogers
Don't Forget Me
Maggie Rogers’ latest album, Don’t Forget Me, is a soft and breezy return to the musician we met on her debut studio effort Heard It in a Past Life
PopMatters
Pearl Jam
Dark Matter
With Dark Matter, the band has rarely sounded more essential
Rolling Stone
Pearl Jam
Dark Matter
While it may be a touch less adventurous as it’s two predecessors, 'Dark Matter' succeeds overwhelmingly
The Arts Desk
Cloud Nothings
Final Summer
This is the sound of a band and a songwriter who have grown confident in their own skin, who are skilled in their craft and not afraid to show it off.This is the sound of a band and a songwriter who have grown confident in their own skin, who are skilled in their craft and not afraid to show it off
Spectrum Culture
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