LØLØ - God Forbid A Girl Spits Out Her Feelings! (Album Review)

Photo: Whitney Otte LØLØ has had a whirlwind few years. Gaining popularity on TikTok during Covid, the Canadian musician subsequently signed with Hopeless Records and put out her breakout debut ‘Falling For Robots And Wishing I Was One’ in 2024.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Friday, 24 April 2026

ZAYN - KONNAKOL (Album Review)

Photo: Nabil Elderkin Ten years on from the release of his solo debut ‘Mind of Mine’, it feels like Zayn Malik is still searching for himself. ‘KONNAKOL’, though, suggests he might be about to give up on looking. It finds him retreating from the quiet character development of 2024’s ‘Room Under the Stairs’ to retrace the hollow grooves of his most commercially successful, but least artistically adventurous, era.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Thursday, 23 April 2026

Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (Album Review)

Honey Dijon is a bit of an astronaut — a veteran of queer Chicago disco who has moved between Berlin and New York over a 30 year career. Her third album is fun, funky and varied; the kind of thing that comes and goes in a club, drifting through a fashion party, or muttering at you in a posh-but-hip shop. It lives between these spaces. It is liminal.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Gretel - Squish (Album Review)

Photo: Karolina Wielocha Gretel’s ‘Squish’ is a debut album that displays both range and emotional potency, moving between dark indie-pop, gothic folk and grungy alt-rock while her uniquely sultry voice pulls listeners in from the start. 

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Jessie Ware - Superbloom (Album Review)

Jessie Ware’s ‘That! Feels Good!’ seemed like an arrival of sorts for Jessie Ware, offering a perfect encapsulation of her sound five albums in. Its deft blend of pop, disco and more earned some of the best reviews of her career to date, leaving her sixth LP ‘Superbloom’ with a lot to live up to.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 20 April 2026

Holly Humberstone - Cruel World (Album Review)

Photo: Silken Weinberg Holly Humberstone’s second album is all about quiet reinvention. The pop-rock singer-songwriter has embraced versatility and emotional complexity on the follow up to 2023’s ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’, presenting a post-breakup narrative about managing your life and emotions after losing love that many will find all too relatable. 

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Friday, 17 April 2026

Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight (Album Review)

Photo: Steve Gullick Lime Garden return in explosive fashion on ‘Maybe Not Tonight’, scaling up their sound into something bigger, bolder and more anarchic than what was on offer throughout their excellent debut ‘One More Thing’.

Written by: Matthew McLister | Date: Thursday, 16 April 2026

Enter Shikari - Lose Your Self (Album Review)

Photo: Kate Hook Who doesn’t love a surprise release? In an age of instant media gratification, a protracted release schedule full of singles and teaser interviews just doesn’t cut the mustard anymore. And while there had been whispers around the Enter Shikari fandom that something was afoot, nothing was truly known until the band confirmed that new music was dropping imminently with the arrival of ‘Love Your Self’.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Thundercat - Distracted (Album Review)

Photo: Neil Krug Six years on from ‘It Is What It Is’, Stephen Bruner returns with ‘Distracted’, a project that feels less like a conventional album than a late-night trip through the more eccentric corners of hip hop radio. Like Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange’ in its sequencing and atmosphere, the songs bleed into one another through miniature skits, spoken fragments and sudden stylistic pivots, giving the whole thing the loose, mixtape-like feel of a broadcast assembled in real time. It’s a terrific framing device for a musician whose instincts are fundamentally restless.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & Surf Gang - Pompeii // Utility (Album Review)

Photo: Ian Buosi Collaborative albums have long been an exciting fixture in hip hop, from MF DOOM and Madlib to Eminem and Royce Da 5’9”, Jay-Z and Kanye West to Method Man and Redman. Now, underground hero MIKE and Odd Future alum Earl Sweatshirt step to the plate with New York collective Surf Gang for an hour of woozy plugg trap to get lost in. 

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Monday, 13 April 2026

Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Album Review)

Photo: Joshua Gordon Arlo Parks writes songs that can sound like overheard confidences: quiet conversations taking place just off the main dancefloor. On her third album she keeps that instinct intact while dressing the music in club textures, from garage rhythms to hazy breakbeats and the faint glow of late-night electronica. The result is intriguing, occasionally moving, and sometimes bordering on electrifying.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Friday, 10 April 2026

The Twilight Sad - It's The Long Goodbye (Album Review)

Photo: Abbey Raymonde The Twilight Sad have come a long way since their iconic debut ‘Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters’ nearly two decades ago, and they’re still pushing themselves. Their sixth effort ‘It’s The Long Goodbye’ may be their most vulnerable to date, detailing vocalist James Graham’s experience of losing his mother to dementia while also becoming a father for the first time.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Thursday, 09 April 2026

Robyn - Sexistential (Album Review)

Photo: Marili Andre On her ninth album, and first in eight years, Swedish electro-pop auteur Robyn ruminates on romantic love, its dizzying highs and plummeting falls, through a cocktail of techno, EDM, house, and even a witty Raya-themed rap, without compromising the quirky brilliance she has become synonymous with.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Wednesday, 08 April 2026

Tom Misch - Full Circle (Album Review)

Photo: Arthur Comely With the release of his debut album ‘Geography’ in 2018, a 22-year-old Tom Misch introduced himself as a talented singer-songwriter, producer and musician. He has worked on a range of projects in the years since, with the Yussef Dayes collaboration What Kind of Music rubbing shoulders with Supershy, but it’s only now that he returns with his second solo album, ‘Full Circle’. Is it worth the eight-year wait? Once again combining elements of jazz, indie-rock, afrobeat and more, the answer is yes.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Tuesday, 07 April 2026

Charlie Puth - Whatever's Clever! (Album Review)

A decade ago, Charlie Puth told Meghan Trainor to “Marvin Gaye and get it on” and the world loved him for it. Written and co-produced with Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber-collaborator BloodPop, ‘Whatever’s Clever!’ battles some old chart-topping demons by embracing yacht rock tropes and ‘80s pop pastiche, while claiming “I used to be cringe” on the song of the same name. But, what if your cringe era was better?

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Thursday, 02 April 2026

RAYE - This Music May Contain Hope. (Album Review)

Photo: Aliyah Otchere Given RAYE’s established status as one of the pre-eminent voices in pop, it’s odd to think of ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ as a levelling up, but that’s exactly what it is. An album packed full of emotion, with musical versatility and lyrical relatability, this is the vocalist’s finest work to date and, surely, catnip for awards panels in the coming months.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Thursday, 02 April 2026

Flea - Honora (Album Review)

Quality albums by career bassists are rare things. The instrument’s genius tends to lie in propulsion rather than melody, which is perhaps why Red Hot Chili Peppers talisman Flea has pivoted to the trumpet on ‘Honora’, an instrument that allows his famously restless musical brain a little more room to roam.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 01 April 2026

Central Cee - All Roads Lead Home EP (Album Review)

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is a useful idiom when something is working and changing course  can only cause problems. It’s advice that has seen millions of people stay on the right path and, in the case of London rapper Central Cee, it has helped him break America and become the international face of UK rap through collabs with Drake, J. Cole, Ice Spice, Raye and, most notably, his lauded ‘Split Decision’ EP with fellow UK rap vanguardsman Dave.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Snail Mail - Ricochet (Album Review)

Photo: Daria Kobayashi Ritch Snail Mail’s ‘Ricochet’ arrives carrying the weight of genuine change. Coming five years after Lindsey Jordan’s previous full length ‘Valentine’, this collection of songs was written after a move from New York to North Carolina and shaped in the wake of Jordan’s vocal polyp surgery and the speech therapy that followed.

Written by: Maddy Howell | Date: Monday, 30 March 2026

Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit (Album Review)

Photo: Lindsey Byrnes Who needs therapy when you have Courtney Barnett? A standout in an already stellar discography, Barnett’s fourth LP ‘Creature of Habit’ feels like your heartbeat returning to normal after a panic attack. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a guilty midnight cigarette, or a remedy to settle the nerves if you’ve drunk too much coffee on an empty stomach.

Written by: James Palaczky | Date: Friday, 27 March 2026