25 May 2013
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Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
The pair focus more on song structure on their second album, so their soft-focus compositions don’t fade into the background so much Evening Standard
Laura Marling Once I Was An Eagle
Her latest record is actually her most lighthearted and joyful Evening Standard
Tribes Wish to Scream
By the end you won't so much wish to scream as laugh out loud. Print edition only Q
Baths Obsidian
An uncommon ear for texture and rhythm. Print edition only Q
CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow
Bold and beautiful. Print edition only NME
An improbable shot of charity shop psychedelia. Print edition only Mojo
A neat balance of darkly powerful and whimsical. Print edition only Uncut
Vivid, dreamy songs from harrowing subject matter. Print edition only Q
It's uplifting, triumphant and inquisitive Drowned In Sound
It’s CocoRosie and it’s beautiful God Is In The TV
A bewitching, beautiful album, with no two songs alike Clash
Whatever they might have traded in youthful abandon, they more than compensate for with a newfound cohesion The Skinny
Beyond the deep palette of sounds and Wiesenfeld’s instantly gratifying falsetto, Baths should be singled out as a young talent worth watching The Irish Times
Simultaneously original, brave, and exciting to listen to over and over again The 405
Twisted, beautiful and introspectively bleak, Obsidian has a lot of qualities which I expect will keep me coming back to it, but it feels lacking as well The Line Of Best Fit
The French duo's 4th album has picked up a good number of 10/10 and 9/10 ratings, but also a handful of 6/10s. Responses range from those who see it as an album that will still be being listened to a decade hence and others who are left thinking "is that it?"
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past four years or so
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
My Bloody Valentine mbv
Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Tom Waits Bad As Me
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid