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Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

There is certainly the sense of Forgiveness Is Yours as a feet finding record, an undeniable result of losing one of the essential reasons Fat White Family are what they are The Line Of Best Fit

Fat White Family  Forgiveness Is Yours

The band creates an undercurrent of anxiety with mismatched rhythms, drum fills, and subtle dissonance Slant Magazine

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Finds Beam doing what he does best, refining those songwriting touches and instrumental backdrops that are present in his most captivating work Under The Radar

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

You might assume, given the title, that beam's seventh full-length album as iron & Wine is lightweight and whimsical. Actually it's pretty magnificent. Print edition only Mojo

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Light Verse rejoices in its playful details. Print edition only Uncut

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

If not one necessarily to win over new fans, this will delight longtime fans who have been along for the ride Clash

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Quirky yet profound, playful but often deeply moving, Light Verse is a record to savour in one sitting, its ten tracks comprising a seriously impressive whole that’s considerably more potent than the sum of its unfailingly impressive individual parts The Line Of Best Fit

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

A clearly cathartic album that further proves Annie Clark to be a brilliant and multifaceted musical force. Print edition only Mojo

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Taut, funk-fuelled and innately human The Irish Times

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

Nonetheless feels airy and welcoming, qualities that have sometimes eluded its more recent predecessors, it resonates emotionally in ways that befit elder statesmen who can look to the future while comfortably acknowledging the past The Line Of Best Fit

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

The duo work with James Ford on this lush, impressive collection that continues upholds their status as pop greats NME

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

Tennant takes on a new performance persona that gloriously mixes Butlins Red Coat, stern children’s fiction headmaster and Frankie Howerd The Arts Desk

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

This album is for listeners like me for whom their songs have provided the soundtrack for getting ready to go out after the disco nap, for whom their songs have commented on life’s compromises The Quietus

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

There any many other fine moments here; these are merely what moved this writer the most. Taken as a whole, this is an utterly brilliant, dependably polished listen, and one that is unquestionably up there with the best moments in this duo’s storied career Clash

Pet Shop Boys  nonetheless

One of their best albums in years finds Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe harking back to their past in melancholic reflection musicOMH