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The National  Trouble Will Find Me

The day is coming when The National may need to leave the comfort zone they have created with their blueprint sound. But for now, while they continue to deliver melancholy as seductively packaged as this, we remain quietly spellbound Entertainment.ie

The National  Trouble Will Find Me

If High Violet was an ambitious statement album that propelled the band to new heights of mid-life/middle-class existentialism, Trouble Will Find Me is looser, easier and rawer—as laidback as The National ever get Paste Magazine

Vampire Weekend  Modern Vampires Of The City

Vampire Weekend's most musically accomplished album to date Billboard

Daft Punk  Random Access Memories

There are wide eyes underneath those robot helmets, and music fans have waited a long time to peer through them for 74 minutes; let go of the mammoth expectations, dance and feel all right Billboard

The National  Trouble Will Find Me

They're a heady, dense, atmospheric rock band loved by many adults who are comfortable with being adults, and "Trouble" isn't likely to win them too many new fans Billboard

Savages  Silence Yourself

The sounds may be old, but they’ve been reassembled into a record that’s deep and primal enough to sound shockingly new Time Out

Daft Punk  Random Access Memories

Their first two albums are classics because they were start-to-finish brilliant. What they’ve created is a truly great event, but only a patchily good album Time Out

The National  Trouble Will Find Me

It has all the stadium-filling darkness you’d expect from a recording begun in a blackout the day Hurricane Sandy hit Time Out

Deerhunter  Monomania

Monomania is pretty damn good for a band playing against their strengths FasterLouder

Primal Scream  More Light

More Light is Primal Scream’s most significant album in a decade, a visceral encapsulation of their strengths and vision that proves they are still wholly relevant after more than thirty years in the game FasterLouder

Daft Punk  Random Access Memories

Random Access Memories is a love letter: to people, to moments, and to music itself. It may be less forward than Daft Punk’s previous records, but it’s the best one to take home at the end of the night FasterLouder

Savages  Silence Yourself

Many bands suffer from overt premature praise but like Interpol, The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Savages have backed it up with a very strong and confident debut built on energy, drama and intensity FasterLouder

Vampire Weekend  Modern Vampires Of The City

When it hits the mark, Modern Vampires is an elegant record FasterLouder

The National  Trouble Will Find Me

The National have a talent for making songs seem simple until you start to poke at them and realize there are all kinds of complicated things happening Under The Radar

MS MR  Secondhand Rapture

Shines when MS MR avoid the somewhat heavy-handed feel that creeps into a few of its tracks and let some air into their sound All Music