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Clint Mansell - High-Rise
A work that somehow registers as both oppressive and liberating»
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon - Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
This is a challenging listen, the rewards often buried, but they are there»
Bloc Party - Hymns
Bloc Party’s fifth album isn’t beyond salvation. It is merely crushingly beig»
Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay have already made this record, and they did it a good deal better, too»
Adele - 25
Music as a foregone conclusion. Time to move on»
Selena Gomez - Revival
Selena Gomez has found a voice worth paying serious attention to»
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
A glorious contradiction, then, one that can’t possibly satisfy all intended targets, but damned if it ain’t fascinating»
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
The Most Lamentable Tragedy is an exhausting affair, but then it absolutely must be so»
The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes
In the end, it’s only just good enough»
Muse - Drones
It lumbers from one phoned-in point to the next»
DiScover: Soak
BBC's Sound of 2015 Longlisted, signed to Rough Trade Records and garnering attention from the likes of Amanda Palmer, Monds-Watson has already blazed quite the trail.»
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Loin Des Hommes
A richly ambient affair»
Tyondai Braxton - Hive1
There's nothing wrong with making demands of the listener, but there's little to no reward to be found across these eight increasingly alienating compositions»
Mylets - Arizona
There's the sense that Kohen is constantly building something here»
Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
Darling Arithmetic is rarely anything but elegant»
The Wombats - Glitterbug
It's not that any one song is outright horrific, more that the entire experience is a chore»
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
The day truly is The Prodigy's enemy. They've had theirs. Time's up.»
Interpol's Daniel Kessler on his ambient-ish side-project Big Noble
"I love writing songs for Interpol, creating things from scratch, but I wanted to try and push myself into new boundaries..."»
No Spill Blood - Heavy Electricity
Dark and claustrophobic, it breathes, pulsating and shifting with each new movement.»
Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
An often bold and sometimes brilliant offering.»
Jape - This Chemical Sea
Smart electro-pop expertly realised.»
Man Without Country - Maximum Entropy
There exists the feeling that Man Without Country are keen to test patience»
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
He hasn't sounded this alive in a very long time.»
Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Everything sings here, no matter how dark the matter at hand»
Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
The Slipknot of 2014 are a reinvigorated unit.»
Jessie J - Sweet Talker
It's the audio equivalent of a Buzzfeed list. There's barely a narrative other than posturing. It's not really an album, more a relentless ad campaign.»
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Less hesitant and more alien in the future, please.»
M83 - Remixes and B-Sides EPs
M83 and futuristic celluloid go hand in searching hand»
M83 - Reissues
M83 still doesn't belong entirely to Anthony Gonzalez. It was never meant to. It's for everyone»