Hayley Williams
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
To return with a record so deeply personal and well-written that it feels like a complete reintroduction without any reinvention is an incredible feat, and in this instance, has made for one of the finest LPs to be released this year
Exclaim
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
Although GUSH’s start-stop-start cadence makes it hard for listeners to fully sink into a groove here, the album’s few standout tracks will fit nicely on any dance playlist
Under The Radar
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
With GUSH, her artistic profundity continues to beam with ambition and warrants rhapsodic praise. The next philosophical journey she’ll take us on may be one even closer towards what feels like her
The Line Of Best Fit
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
On her most social, libidinal collection of songs to date, the Los Angeles musician combines cerebral synthesis with beats inflected by two-step, dancehall, and ballroom
Pitchfork
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
Gush is inventive and unpredictable. On the other hand, it’s more direct and less phantasmagorical than the predecessor
The Quietus
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
The electronic composer’s latest album leans hard toward pop, but still favors ornamentation over direct jolts
Spectrum Culture
Sabrina Carpenter
Man’s Best Friend
It is not cohesive or intelligent enough to be so explicit, and is far too overt to be a fun pop album
The Arts Desk
Sabrina Carpenter
Man’s Best Friend
An adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results
The Skinny
Sabrina Carpenter
Man’s Best Friend
Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound
Rolling Stone
Big Thief
Double Infinity
The band sheds their usual ragged, rustic style in favor of a more polished approach
Slant Magazine
Shame
Cutthroat
More eclectic than before and outgrowing easy categorisation, this is the sound of a band performing at the peak of their powers
musicOMH
Saint Etienne
International
To the end, Saint Etienne have never faltered on their mission statement. Magic is here. Believe
Record Collector