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Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

Thirty years after stepping into the spotlight, the Portishead singer reintroduces herself with her debut solo album. History weighs heavy on her songs, but she takes pains to avoid her musical past Pitchfork

Dehd  Poetry

Dehd exude a youthful charm that is hard to replicate on Poetry. They are infectious and their sunny melodies and sincerity make their music compelling PopMatters

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

Beth Gibbons gives us the understanding of our mortality that we all need on her most revealing work The Quietus

Billie Eilish  Hit Me Hard And Soft

The singer’s music is energised by her push-pull relationship with fame The FT

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

The Portishead singer has a powerful sense of feeling in her voice on her solo debut The FT

A.G. Cook  Britpop

Tracks explore the past, present and future of the striking hyperpop style pioneered by the producer The FT

A.G. Cook  Britpop

As he closes the books on PC Music, label founder A. G. Cook unspools a rangy triple album full of shiny synths, inside jokes, and gently sentimental vocal pop Pitchfork

A.G. Cook  Britpop

On his third studio album, the British producer puts a reverent pin in PC Music across three discrete discs that revel in a self-referential past and outline an already-here future Paste Magazine

A.G. Cook  Britpop

The album challenges assumptions about what pop is and offers an exciting glimpse of what it could be Slant Magazine

A.G. Cook  Britpop

A. G. Cook’s third studio album finds the producer and PC Music label-head taking stock, and in the process making his finest solo work to date The Skinny

A.G. Cook  Britpop

Cook seems to understand the power of juxtaposition, seamlessly blending diverse elements to create a rich and dynamic sonic landscape. Clash

A.G. Cook  Britpop

Step back a few paces to look at it in full, and you’ll find something that celebrates freedom of opinion and individualism and is, as he said in the press, accordingly “fun without being facetious”. Somehow, it looks just fine from here The Line Of Best Fit

A.G. Cook  Britpop

This whopping triple album – billed as the 'Past', 'Present' and 'Future' – from the PC Music founder simply never bores NME

A.G. Cook  Britpop

On ‘Britpop’, Cook’s mastery of the esoteric is singular DIY

Beth Gibbons  Lives Outgrown

These rich and atmospheric arrangements fail to completely offset the creeping, crawling melodies, built from inching steps of tones and semitone The Line Of Best Fit