Play it loud, with the lyric sheet in hand - album experiences like this don’t come along too often.
Fiery, punchy and hitting the ground running, Cruz Beckham is determined to introduce himself on his own terms with debut ‘Wear and Tear’.
Quiet, strange and meticulously composed, Lost Weekend finds Bridgers at her most controlled, and perhaps therefore at her most revealing.
The Script’s songs are built to begin intimately, often with a confession or a wound, before expanding into something communal and enormous.
The kind of album that rewards you more the closer you actually listen. It's the sound of an artist finally writing exactly the record he was always circling.
Punk? Indie? Shoegaze? Alt Rock? Call it whatever you want, but there is absolutely no denying that Citizen’s new album is nothing short of brilliance.
Get those hearts racing, get the adrenaline pumping, and get on the dance floor. It’s time to inflict some TANZNEID upon civilisation.
Buffalo Traffic Jam’s long-awaited debut album finds beauty in vulnerability, weathered vocals and stories that feel lived rather than written.
There is magic in that new record, and it’s a blessing in a black-and-pink colourful disguise.
After over a decade of records, tours, festival appearances and everything else a band can dream of, Brighton band As It Is are showing no sign of stopping now.
The jury’s still out on what their best album is, and a case can be made for all six, but this may just be the most important album the XCERTS have made yet.
Galway’s fiercest new noisemakers, Shark School, show they are a force to be reckoned with on their debut album, Selachimorpha.
At just over fifty minutes, Dear God is an immersive and rewarding listen that showcases The Pretty Reckless at their most focused and emotionally resonant.
Australian psych rockers Pond are a prolific outfit that have returned with their 11th record – Terrestrials.
‘A Broken Chord’ pushes Oral Habit to their sonic limits that show the world what the psych/punk/Kraut band is capable of – have we found the next Osees?
Modest Mouse return with ‘An Eraser and a Maze’, their first album since 2021’s ‘The Golden Casket’. Thirty years on from their debut, Isaac Brock and company are less interested in marking milestones than in dealing with time as it passes.
There are few shows more abrasive; loud, chaotic and brash than a Guilt Trip show. Their live pits are a tour-de-force of sheer brutality and mayhem, and the Manchester outfit translate that superbly well onto their new album that’s as hardworking as the city they come from.
Releasing 11 albums as a band is a feat most groups can only dream of, and I Built You A Tower certainly stands on its own two feet as an immediate testament to how we grieve, and how we carry on.
