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Fat Freddy's Drop - Bays
Big bass, big beats, big band»
Foals - What Went Down
More a work that’ll maintain Foals' excellent level of consistency, rather than proving itself to be the defining album of an already blessed year for music»
Dornik - Dornik
Dornik is certainly an artist full of promise»
Tame Impala - Currents
A record that demands your reflection and immersion»
Daughn Gibson - Carnation
A record that’s as beguiling as it is strange»
Jamie xx - In Colour
In Colour stands tall as a bold and renewably-exciting triumph.»
Best Coast - California Nights
It determinedly proves that the Best Coast formula won’t ever change»
Todd Rundgren - Global
You’re likely to only really get it if you’re a Rundgren aficionado»
Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a finely-made tearjerker of a record»
The Cribs - For All My Sisters
The Cribs have managed to interpret the notion of 'pop music' into an often-spectacular record.»
Badbadnotgood featuring Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
This form of collaboration is an art form that the hip-hop genre should embrace far more often.»
Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
When it comes to a band like Pond, there really shouldn’t be any rules that we expect them to follow.»
Bonobo - Flashlight
Whilst short in duration, Flashlight is definitely tall in ambition.»
Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow
Doesn’t successfully break new ground as much as it reassuringly treads familiar paths.»
TV on the Radio - Seeds
A compelling and frankly splendid record that you should seriously consider adding to your collection.»
Young Fathers - Dead
If you’re looking for a thoroughly twenty-first-century record that’ll challenge your preconceptions and bombard the senses, then Dead is something that’s definitely worth your while.»
Jungle - Jungle
An act to make a long-term investment in.»
Childish Gambino - STN MTN/Kauai
This release is an encouraging step forward by Glover, whose hearty investment in the Gambino stock will surely increase in the months to come.»
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
Wonder Where We Land proves that the SBTRKT name is still very much worth following second time round.»
Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
All discourse on the relevancy of this outfit is disposed of within the first bars of the meteoric ‘Cheap Talk’.»
Childhood - Lacuna
The right kind of noises. For fans of The Horrors and Deerhunter.»
Devonté Hynes - Palo Alto: Original Motion Picture Score
This OST may just be one for Dev Hynes aficionados.»
Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth
A record that demands you court it over time in order to even be invited to appreciate the true extent of its splendour.»
Chromeo - White Women
Here is Chromeo’s fourth record, affixed with a questionable title that’ll go nicely with the more-than-questionable choices of movement that you’ll start to make as you pull shapes listening to this vivacious album.»
Fuck Art Let's Dance! - Atlas
Sadly Atlas just isn’t the manifesto that these cursing Germans presumably hoped it would become.»
The Birds of Satan - The Birds of Satan
We can safely declare that this bird should be allowed to fly.»
Ratking - So It Goes
Brutally hip-hop with post-punk tendencies, Ratking’s debut album is a wonderfully dystopic record that is as progressive as it is anarchist.»
Lucius - Wildewoman
As colourful as its cover sleeve, Wildewoman is packed with a joyous authenticity.»
Howler - World of Joy
There’s a risk that comes with sticking to what’s familiar.»