In calling back to bygone decades with PRIMA, Jergová certainly knows her audience. But in a time of profitable nostalgia bait, it’s a formulaic approach that is both aiding her popularity and interfering with her artistic development

It’s easy to be charmed by LOVE, which transcends place and generation to immerse us once again in the Dexys Midnight Runners world: a place shaped by the many forms of love a life can encounter, with Rowland as riveting a protagonist as ever

Leave it to Chat Pile to turn a compendium of horrors into something exquisite

After such a long time away, I Must Be Dreaming feels organic and not forced in any way. This record is one that will happily sit alongside their prior work and Howard’s solo releases, a testament to their synergy and craft

Thankfully it doesn't wallow, instead it kicks up the dust, rages at the circumstance, and keeps the course for where Mastodon were supposed to be heading anyway – the future

The new approach feels fresh and revitalising, without toning down the artist’s gift for fiery rhetoric. “Thoughtful summer jams” might sound unappealing on principle, but in this case at least, it’s a winner

While mary in the junkyard keep some secrets close to their heart, they still flash their eyes at us, allowing their unique and empathetic understanding of the world – that humans are just creatures with fears, hopes, and yearns for companionship – to shine through

This is the sound of a band in maximum flight, not afraid to change direction, still with the open and fun storytelling but immersed in a darker soundscape

Her art dips into legacies without being beholden to them, rejecting references as soon as she invokes them, creating a playful contradiction that feels like her own post-postmodern language

As a record, Massive Champion is bold, hyper-observative, and completely enigmatic, but it needs to go that one stepping stone further to completely reinvent the wheel

A patient uncoiling of her turbulent past, Phoebe Bridgers’ third album will surprise you in impossible ways