Tom Smith - There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn't There In The Light (Album Review)

Photo: Edith Smith Tom Smith is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Editors, releasing seven studio albums with the post-punk band since 2005. His first solo LP is a departure from the indie sounds of his day job, with ‘There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light’ incorporating elements of folk alongside his signature vocal style.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Friday, 12 December 2025

Isobel Waller-Bridge - Objects (Album Review)

Isobel Waller-Bridge has enjoyed success as a film, television and theatre composer, having previously formulated scores for Fleabag, Black Mirror and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. Written over a period of four years, her new solo album ‘Objects’ provides a sense of stillness, gaining musical inspiration from simple household objects such as a shoe or glass while forcing you to shift into the present moment.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Thursday, 11 December 2025

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Live God (Album Review)

Photo: Megan Cullen Nick Cave has spent the past decade evolving from vampiric soothsayer to gothic preacher, and ‘Live God’ feels like the document of that transformation. Captured across the Wild God Tour of 2024-25, it packages Cave’s late-career evangelism into 18 tracks that blur the lines between rock concert and secular gospel service.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded (Album Review)

Photo: Diane Sagnier ‘Unclouded’ is the latest chapter in Juliana Melody Prochet’s ongoing attempt to put her own distinctive spin on neo-psychedelia with Melody’s Echo Chamber. It is another dreamy, inviting soundscape that crams plenty of textures and rich detail into its 30-minute runtime, with many of its sub three minute tracks still painting vivid pictures.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Tuesday, 09 December 2025

Ella Eyre - Everything, In Time (Album Review)

‘Everything, in time’ is a fitting title for Ella Eyre’s first full length release in 10 years; a bold, spirited record infused with retro soul, funk and R&B vibes. Not that the years since 2015’s ‘Feline’ have been fallow. After hitting number one with her debut release, as featured artist on Rudimental’s 2013 megahit Waiting All Night, she enjoyed a run of singles chart success.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Monday, 08 December 2025

Jessie J - Don't Tease Me With A Good Time (Album Review)

Photo: Ashley Osborn  After becoming a household name in the early 2010s thanks to hits such as Price Tag, Jessie J has ridden waves of uncertainty in the wake of 2014’s ‘Sweet Talker’, which housed her last genuine smash in the form of the Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj collab Bang Bang. Some level of critical acclaim followed with ‘R.O.S.E.’, but her profile remained at a simmer. That might change with ‘Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time’, a record that’s deeply personal and accomplished.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Tuesday, 02 December 2025

Keaton Henson - Parader (Album Review)

Photo: Danielle Fricke For an artist who’s long served as one of indie-folk’s most reliable confessors, Keaton Henson sounds remarkably uncertain on ‘Parader’. But that gnawing feeling proves to be its greatest asset.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Monday, 01 December 2025

Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - What of Our Nature (Album Review)

American folk music’s heyday was the 1960s — a moment of collective yearning when Woody Guthrie’s protest spirit collided with a mass cultural awakening. Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover are acutely aware of that lineage on ‘What of Our Nature’, a record that consciously throws back to that era’s campfire radicalism while interrogating what’s happened to the country since.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025

Glitterer - erer (Album Review)

Photo: Alex Szantos Over the past few years, what began as a solitary experiment in bedroom synth-pop for Title Fight’s Ned Russin has crystallised into a fully-fledged band with real heft. Leaning into evolution with intent on their first full-length for Purple Circle Records — the new label co-owned by Russin — ‘erer’ is Glitterer’s most focused, immediate, and thematically pointed release so far.

Written by: Maddy Howell | Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly EP (Album Review)

Photo: Adam Titchener Following up her masterful 2024 LP ‘Dreamstate’, a lush, lucid and airy collection of club music, was always going to be a tricky task for Kelly Lee Owens. But, instead of trying to strictly emulate its effervescent, emotionally-charged tone, the Welsh electronic musician and DJ has instead come up with a heavier, harder follow-up.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Tuesday, 25 November 2025

AVTT/PTTN - AVTT/PTTN (Album Review)

Photo: Crackerfarm Mike Patton has never been an artist afraid of the weird, the abrasive or the wilfully obtuse, so the former Faith No More frontman’s team-up with folk-rockers The Avett Brothers always felt primed for some kind of combustion, creative or otherwise. What we get instead is a record stitched together remotely over several years that sits in an uncanny midpoint: oddly intimate, strangely anonymous, occasionally brilliant, intermittently baffling.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025

FKA Twigs - Eusexua Afterglow (Album Review)

Photo: Jordan Hemingway Growing out of the prospect of a deluxe edition of this year’s ‘Eusexua’, FKA Twigs’ fourth LP is about digging deeper. Instead of throwing a few extra tracks on streaming services we have ‘Eusexua Afterglow’, an avant-pop electronic record packed with dance anthems, picking up from where its predecessor left off with its celebration of the underground rave scene in Prague.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Whitney - Small Talk (Album Review)

Photo: Alexa Vicious With a title like ‘Small Talk’, you’d expect Whitney’s fourth LP to take place amid the mundane parts of life, but this album shows the Chicago-formed duo in a different light as they lay love and loss on the table. The results are wonderful. This isn’t meaningless chatter and preamble — it’s two artists opening up every ounce of their thoughts for the world to see.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Monday, 17 November 2025

White Lies - Night Light (Album Review)

Photo: Jono White White Lies’ bleak-yet-infectious riff on ‘80s synth-pop stood out among their late ‘00s indie-rock peers. The trio's cinematic gloss and euphoric energy felt nostalgic and fresh at the same time, propelling their 2009 debut ‘To Lose My Life…’ to number one on the UK albums chart.

Written by: Matthew McLister | Date: Friday, 14 November 2025

Stella Donnelly - Love and Fortune (Album Review)

Photo: Nick MckInlay On her third album, Stella Donnelly offers up a meditation on heartbreak. But, while she wears her heart on her sleeve throughout her most vulnerable collection yet, ‘Love And Fortune’ struggles with inconsistent song development, where some tracks feel worryingly shallow and others as deep pools to navigate.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Friday, 14 November 2025

Westerman - A Jackal's Wedding (Album Review)

Photo: Eric Scaggiante When ‘A Jackal’s Wedding’ opens with a peal of wedding bells, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a concept record. What follows, though, is closer to the loose stream-of-consciousness writing we’ve come to know and love from Westerman.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025

Del Water Gap - Chasing The Chimera (Album Review)

Photo: Anthony Wilson On ‘Chasing The Chimera’, Brooklyn-based songwriter Samuel Holden Jaffe steps out from the indie-pop darkness of 2023’s ‘I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet’ into warming, indie-folk sunlight. His third album as Del Water Gap trades moody, synth-driven atmospherics for strummed acoustics and jazz-inflected arrangements, navigating territory between Father John Misty’s baroque-pop wryness and Phoebe Bridgers’ emo-folk vulnerability.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025

Portugal. The Man - Shish (Album Review)

Photo: Nathan Perke Portugal. The Man’s career has been fascinating. Having formed in 2004, they didn’t become a household name until the release of Feel It Still in 2017, a gargantuan smash that propelled its parent record ‘Woodstock’ to sell more than a million copies in the US alone. Now, the band return with ‘Shish’, a record that seeks to show you all the places they’ve been by amalgamating the sounds they have dabbled in over the years.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Tortoise - Touch (Album Review)

Photo: Heather Cantrell Three decades after they first stretched the term post-rock into something supple, strange and Chicagoan, Tortoise return with ‘Touch’,  their first album in nearly a decade and, perhaps, their least cohesive. Once the blueprint for instrumental experimentation, the group’s spidery interplay has here become something more distant and deliberate, a collaboration assembled across time zones rather than assembled face-to-face.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Rosalía - Lux (Album Review)

Rosalía’s versatility is a given at this point. Whether she’s revamping flamenco on ‘El Mal Querer’ or serving up reggaeton with an avant-pop twist on ‘Motomami’, the Catalan songwriter is always ahead of the curve. ‘Lux’, though, is an entirely different beast even when viewed in that shape-shifting context; an odyssey through all things feminine and divine, complete with classical flourishes.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025