Japanese Breakfast  For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Michelle Zauner addresses big themes on her band’s fourth album, but her sharp writing isn’t best served by wistful arrangements The Observer

Greentea Peng  Tell Dem It's Sunny

The south-east Londoner’s second album pairs a refreshed musical palette with streamlined, introspective lyrics The Observer

The Horrors  Night Life

More nuanced and less abrasive than Lout and … Blade, the record comes across as a lush vista of clean surfaces and inorganic textures, in equal measures optimistic, lonely, frightening Beats Per Minute

Brian D’Addario  Till The Morning

After 2024’s A Dream Is All We Know, the elder D’Addario brother returns with a solo(-ish) record of colour and striking cogency Record Collector

My Morning Jacket  is

This experience is best brought about through careful craft, which My Morning Jacket utilize throughout Is without any sacrifice of their long-running success PopMatters

Perfume Genius  Glory

Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection Pitchfork

My Morning Jacket  is

Veteran producer Brendan O’Brien helps craft the epitome of a modern My Morning Jacket LP. It captures their classic style and sound, but lacks the adventurousness that defines their best work Pitchfork

Deafheaven  Lonely People With Power

The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grown musicOMH

Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco  I Said I Love You First

The engaged power couple struggle to strike the right balance on their collaborative record musicOMH

Mumford & Sons  Rushmere

On an album, where every track stands out, it is hard to pick a ‘highlight’ but if we had to pick, it would be the title track, due to it’s jubilant nature. The final song of ‘Rushmere’, aptly called ‘Carry On’ is an optimistic note to end this album on Clash

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

Some moments here (in particular "Cataract Time") rank among the best work in his catalog, making Dan's Boogie another chapter of knowing contradiction, unsettlement, and self-challenge in a body of work defined by these things All Music

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

A range of genres is complemented by lush production and creeping dissonance Slant Magazine

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

These songs insinuate via a vaguely vintage sound that recall both Jonathan Donahue's spangled dreaminess and the (s)weary brio of Father John Misty. Print edition only Uncut

Destroyer  Dan's Boogie

Dan's Boogie remains fascinatingly obscure in places, but these songs are full of buried gold. Print edition only Mojo

Perfume Genius  Glory

The album feels authentic, with stripped-back production and organic instrumentation breathing life into the narratives that Hadreas weaves through individual songs and the album’s wider context Dork