All these jingles, disk-drawer sounds, error parps and proprietary signatures might be the first elements they’ve used we can all relate to directly. Just another route to joyous shared experience

It’s all quintessentially Beastie Boys without feeling trapped by the past

Have you ever heard a song for the first time and felt a shiver run so deep it took the floor with it? That, for me, is the first seconds of Pugnello, and it hardly relents from there

There are fewer showpiece guest moments than last time. But the world the album covers is wider, and the playing is the best argument in it. Joe Armon-Jones and the Koleoso brothers have been locked together since their Tomorrow’s Warriors days, and it shows in how little any of this strains

It’s all quintessentially Beastie Boys without feeling trapped by the past

It’s all quintessentially Beastie Boys without feeling trapped by the past

There’s more going on in Yours Sincerely than an attractive recapitulation of earlier themes. The sheer comfort of the sound is what the album is really about, and also, the key to what is going on under its delightful surfaces

Much like its name, Half-Told Tales, these deeply felt, descriptive and lived-in songs are amongst the formidable Scottish duo’s finest and most immediate work

Cerebral and caustic, the structures built within the body of Marrow Deep are worth exploring

This Mirror Weighs A Ton marks a moment of pleasing expansionism twinned with some of the best songs of their long career

Julia Holter finds a dizzying array of new ideas from the bones of a track first included on 2024's Something in the Room She Moves

There are some beautiful moments with a vaguely Kusturica-esque sound, some great crunchy Motörhead-esque speed metal riffs, and pieces where you can just imagine people being chased down grungy tunnels by demonic creatures – even if you haven’t read the graphic novel

DOOMED! shines, through its opulent-sounding beats, and intimate rhymes

The ever-increasing sonic fidelity of the BoC sound has proven contentious, but it is precisely Inferno’s depth and hi-fi clarity that allows the album’s gods their fullest refulgence

Its authors may be busy denying that this is the 'rock' album expected by some, but perhaps it is still the best punk album of the decade

Lost In Another World, then, is an impressively put together DIY electronic album that takes us under the covers of the hospital bed, lying around endlessly with just your thoughts to entertain you, punctuated by sundry temperature readings, injections that you barely notice, as well as the semidiurnal arrival of trays of inedible food