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Kings Of Leon  Can We Please Have Fun

The Followills are back with familiar anthems but not enough howling numbers to satiate their ninth album's titular request NME

Arab Strap  I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

Morosely funny lyrics, and a pitch-perfect retro sound design that alternates between deadly serious and utterly comical. They’re stronger than ever musicOMH

Kings Of Leon  Can We Please Have Fun

Pop Art-provocative, and speaks to the joy, sweat, and poetic inspiration coursing through all of Can We Please Have Fun All Music

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

McMahon always takes his music wherever it needs to go, and Death Jokes is the bracing sound of Amen Dunes actively engaging with the world and its problems All Music

Kings Of Leon  Can We Please Have Fun

The Nashville rockers still sound great, but their lyrics seem bereft of ideas The Observer

Kings Of Leon  Can We Please Have Fun

A far cry from the beardy, beery bawling of previous years, ‘Can We Please Have Fun’ is surprisingly fresh and full of energy The Independent

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

There’s undeniably a great work of art in here among the clutter of scraps that McMahon has collected over the last few years. It seems he’s refused to relinquish them because they mean too much to him – though they probably won’t to most others Beats Per Minute

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

McMahon's songwriting talents leave no doubt that these new idioms will soon be seamlessly integrated into the Amen Dunes vocabulary. In the meantime, Death Jokes is a worthwhile sputter on the journey there Exclaim

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

At its best, like the gorgeous, nine-minute “Round The World”, his bittersweet sound feels like the work of an art-music auteur. Print edition only Uncut

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

Death Jokes is the product of a very busy mind, expertly encapsulating the feeling of being trapped, distracted, and despondent The Skinny

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

The music is steeped in melancholy and fear, but with a desire to unpick and embrace the disorder, and make something meaningful of it The Line Of Best Fit

Knocked Loose  You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

ardcore favourites Knocked Loose swing for the fences and then some on their incredible, incendiary third album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. Gum shields at the ready... Kerrang!

Knocked Loose  You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

The Kentucky hardcore lot obliterate expectations on a fourth record as fearsome as it is ferocious The Skinny

Knocked Loose  You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

The Kentucky metalcore quintet cleverly channel pop – and even reggaeton grooves – to create an album of crushing intensity and vast scope The Guardian

Knocked Loose  You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

On the Kentucky metalcore band’s titanic fourth album, they’ve amplified and concentrated their sound into something so potent that it has its own gravitational pull Pitchfork