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Melvins  Tarantula Heart

This album rocks. It has an experimental, and maybe sometimes uncomfortable aspect, here and there, but despite the fact that it is totally unique in the Melvins catalogue, it’s one of the most Melvins-y things they’ve ever released Punk News

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

Each of the record’s 31 tracks unfold as a specific set piece filled with anecdotes, some more cleverly worded than others DIY

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

With album seven, Annie Clark has peeled away the layers of artifice to reveal her most unique identity yet: herself NME

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

On All Born Screaming, Clark sounds more at home than she has in a while, but all planets inevitably die — perhaps the next one she lands on will finally be her own Exclaim

Cloud Nothings  Final Summer

Yet another solid rock record from a reliable group who are very good at this sort of thing Exclaim

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

Like the colourless photo of a near-anonymous Swift that adorns the album cover, it casts an artful pose but doesn't have the guts to look the listener in the eye Exclaim

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

In Swift’s capable hands, even the deepest moments of despair are transmuted into songs which resonate with emotion and genuine insight Under The Radar

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

This is the sound of releasing a lifetime’s worth of strife and unease. That sounds, it turns out, is pretty damn excellent The Line Of Best Fit

The Black Keys  Ohio Players

You can sum up the overall aesthetic concept of the Black Keys’ Ohio Players with two main points: It rocks and sounds great in a bowling alley PopMatters

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album goes for a hard reset on the St. Vincent project. She retains her sharp edge as a songwriter while making the music sound exalting, inspiring, and thoroughly romantic Pitchfork

English Teacher  This Could Be Texas

The UK band’s overstuffed debut melds indie-prog, rock, folk electronica, and post-punk into an expansive new sound Pitchfork

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Annie Clark has made a restless, mercurial, kaleidoscopic record that will really alienate some yet completely bewitch the rest musicOMH

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Are we finally seeing the real Annie Clarke? Replacing alter egos with raw immediacy, she delivers one of her best albums: restlessly inventive and packed with ideas The Guardian

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink Slant Magazine

Taylor Swift  The Tortured Poets Department

A unique experience that, even with all its flaws, merits engagement Beats Per Minute