‘Pleasure’, Leslie Feist’s first album in six years, shows that her strange, playful power has not diminished with time.
Gorillaz’ first proper album in seven years, featuring a galaxy of guest stars, effectively re-boots their sound for 2017, though it’s not as distinctive as it once was.
Adore//Repel’s debut album ‘Empty Orchestra’ hints a lot but delivers disappointingly little. One for the future.
With their third album ‘Swan Songs’, Leeds’ quartet Post War Glamour Girls look to have made the record of which many had thought them capable.
Joe Goddard, of British dance legends Hot Chip, goes solo with a competent, club-ready album in ‘Electric Lines’.
Maxïmo Park’s sixth studio album ‘Risk To Exist’ ditches Paul Smith’s usual cryptic, intelligent lyrical style for vacuous sloganeering and empty thrills.
Little Dragon’s sixth album ‘Season High’ sees them fully embrace pop, but the results are sometimes strangely low on energy.
Whether ‘DAMN’ will be the cultural crossover its predecessor was remains to be seen, but what is clear is that Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album is another glorious record.
The caustically funny ‘Pure Comedy’ sees Josh Tillman take aim at society and politics in his third album as Father John Misty.
The New Pornographers mark the start of their third decade with seventh album ‘Whiteout Conditions’, an energetic and exhausting triumph.
