On Hard Life, the Tubs finally homed in on a sound to match their self-supplied and tongue-in-cheek “Celtic jangle boyband” tagline. However, the description still fails to capture the London quartet’s complex context and the roughed-up heart that beats in their songs

The UK band’s Merge debut is an album of survival: a set of fatalistic jangle-rock anthems with just enough joy to keep going

A consistently impressive record from a singular songwriting talent, brought to life by a remarkably talented band

There’s only so many jangly guitars, high-pitched vocals, and tales of moving to the big smoke that one needs in an album before it starts to grate

Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good time

Their most fine-tuned and sonically rich album to date, with 12 more fantastically catchy and emotionally turbulent songs in the style they’ve been perfecting along the way

The Welsh band's classic rock twisted indie folk on their third album demonstrates their earwormy ability to write a hook

The band’s post-punk-infused songs sink in quickly and stand up to repeat listens

A record that is a ridiculously hook-heavy collection of songs - and one that unquestionably positions Williams as one of our most unique and arresting contemporary songwriters. Print edition only

It’s a ludicrous, entirely unexpected occurrence when a band release a single album that sounds like a Greatest Hits collection, but track after track, hook after blinding hook, and line after wry line, that’s what we get – every song building on the glistening brilliance of the last

An album that consolidates and amplifies both 2023’s debut Dead Meat and last year’s Cotton Crown, transcending notions of what indie rock is supposed to be in the 21st century