Cannonball review | Six people, one very crowded - but good - debut
Man/Woman/Chainsaw spent four years playing to rooms that barely noticed. Their debut, produced by Margo Broom and Seth Evans, makes it very hard to ignore them now.
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Pure Devotion review | Overmono break their gear, keep their sound
Overmono spent part of making Pure Devotion trying to break their own equipment. Tom and Ed Russell pushed two synthesizers and an effects...
The Thread review | Five months on from her last album, Willow slows right down | whynow
Willow released The Thread five months after her last album. It's her eighth solo record and easily the least hurried-sounding of the two.
Reality Awaits review | Nine songs, no consensus
Reality Awaits is nine songs long and somehow still feels too long to some critics. Others think it's the most cohesive thing The Strokes have made in years. Both are right about different parts of it.
Different When It's Silent review | The Tricky album where Tricky goes missing
Recorded quietly between France and Bristol with singer Mitch Sanders throughout, Different When It's Silent is Tricky's 15th album, and the one where he disappears into his own record on purpose.
You're Gonna Need A Little Music review | Yard Act burn the Rover and build a studio
Yard Act's teaser trailer showed their famous old Rover going up in flames. Their third album, recorded live together as a full band for the first time, sounds like the aftermath.
Sungazer review | The Temper Trap finally learn to slow down
The first song The Temper Trap wrote when they reunited was 'Kuru' - the closing track on Sungazer, not the first. Eight years after burnout ended their run, it's the sound of a band that finally learned patience.
Frozen Charlotte review | Jack White proves some things shouldn't change
Jack White's Frozen Charlotte reviewed: how Victorian folklore and a road-tested touring band built his most focused solo record since the White Stripes.
The Black Parade is alive | My Chemical Romance deliver jaw-dropping night in Liverpool
Onstage executions, suicide vests, a new verse in 'Mama' and Gerard Way crawling into a corpse outline: My Chemical Romance's Black Parade show at Anfield Stadium was everything it needed to be.
Role Model Hermit review | Mary in the Junkyard announce themselves with one of the year's best debuts
Clari Freeman-Taylor and Saya Barbaglia met at classical music summer camps when they were fourteen, and both play cello and viola alongside their...
The Ground Above review | Beth Orton has earned the right to say 'what has kept me alive is feral invincibility'
Self-produced and built around a remarkable cast of collaborators including Adrian Utley, Tom Skinner and Shahzad Ismaily, The Ground Above is Beth Orton's most physically present and most emotionally direct record. The opener sets a bar the rest nearly clears.
Your Day Will Come review | The same title, a better album, and music that sounds like nothing else right now
Shane Lavers called his second album the same thing as his first. The question he kept asking himself while writing it was whether love is enough to survive the state of the world. Your Day Will Come (2026) does not answer that question, which turns out to be the right decision.
