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

Two releases into their post-retirement phase, this isn’t necessarily unexpected, but damn, in the wrong headspace? (Or at the wrong age?) It will 100% mess you up, leave you blubbering on the floor The Quietus

Hana Vu  Romanticism

Romanticism emerges as a whole, as Hana Vu’s space to ask some big questions, though the answers she’s receiving are mostly ambivalent at best PopMatters

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

Once again, Arab Strap have done a grand job worthy of broad smiles, screens off, and the stereo turned all the way up. Get outside and hear the birds sing PopMatters

Mount Kimbie  The Sunset Violent

Mount Kimbie stir their influences into The Sunset Violent so well that it’s distinctly a record of theirs and an enjoyable one at that PopMatters

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

A mix of mature realism and lingering hope gives Iron & Wine’s Light Verse its heart. Sam Beam only needs to search for sweetness when it’s hidden PopMatters

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

On its second post-comeback album, the Scottish duo turns its narrative attention to human behavior in the digital age, to incisive and occasionally nihilistic ends Pitchfork

Amen Dunes  Death Jokes

Filtered through warped hip-hop beats and garbled samples, Damon McMahon’s self-produced sixth album is a characteristically oblique apocalypse tale about living for today Pitchfork

Hana Vu  Romanticism

With her forceful contralto and skyscraping pop-rock, the Los Angeles songwriter’s second album is a dramatic chronicle of exiting young adulthood into an uncertain future Pitchfork

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

Their devotion to pop and belief it in its power is affecting and oddly reassuring, particularly because Nonetheless works so well as an album: there's no fat, no excess, so the craft that services the emotion is difficult to deny All Music

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

The duo’s first LP in four years finds them refining and updating their late-80s heyday sound, with a new producer in tow The Observer

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

As that peppery title suggests, Nonetheless shows the duo pulling themselves up to full songwriting height, not just forging on, but flourishing Mojo

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