Jungle
For Ever
The buzzy UK group only sometimes overcomes their style-over-substance sound that coats their glossy songs
Pitchfork
Fatherson
Sum of All Your Parts
Fatherson are a class act. Their emotive songs make them front-runners in a competitive rock scene. Poetry and sorrow meld together fantastically well on Sum Of All Your Parts
God Is In The TV
The Goon Sax
We're Not Talking
The band’s songcraft has improved immeasurably since their first release, in its powerful, succinct simplicity, in its poeticism and medglodicism
God Is In The TV
Villagers
The Art Of Pretending To Swim
Villagers' music is pleasant and easy to listen to without being simple, and has catchy melodies that don't reach the level of massive pop hooks
PopMatters
Menace Beach
Black Rainbow Sound
With Black Rainbow Sound, Menace Beach continue to explore indie rock with a slight experimental twist and a direct, pop-influenced approach.
PopMatters
Pale Waves
My Mind Makes Noise
Outsider pop has rarely seemed so glamorous
Clash
Christine and the Queens
Chris
Musically, it's like a chilled synthpop spritzer that effervesces from her remarkable debut
The Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks
The More I Sleep The Less I Dream
We Were Promised Jetpacks have returned to form by letting loose
Spectrum Culture
Villagers
The Art Of Pretending To Swim
Overall, ‘The Art of Pretending to Swim’ is an interesting representation of renewed belief and cycles of faith – even if at times it pushes things a little too far
Loud And Quiet
Christine and the Queens
Chris
A sparkling pop album that flourishes in both English and French, Chris is a supremely confident introduction to the next phase of Christine and the Queens
The Skinny
Gazelle Twin
Pastoral
Gazelle Twin channels parochial angst to stunning, nightmarish effect
The Line Of Best Fit
Noname
Room 25
A transcendent coming-of-age tale built around cosmic jazz and neo-soul, delivered by a woman deeply invested in her interiority and that of the world around her
Pitchfork