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

Kings of Leon - EP #2 (Album Review)

It’s been a prolific period for Kings of Leon, fresh from strong reviews for their most recent album ‘Can We Please Have Fun’ and several collaborations with Zach Bryan. Their first EP in more than 20 years marks a return to the raw sound of their early work and, while it might only amount to four tracks, it shows the group haven’t wholly abandoned the formula behind Molly’s Chambers for stadium anthems.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 10 November 2025

Witch Fever - FEVEREATEN (Album Review)

Photo: Frank Fieber Three years on from their debut ‘Congregation’, Manchester quartet Witch Fever have returned with a record that’s both more refined and more in hock to doom-metal — ‘FEVEREATEN’ brims with creativity, catharsis, and a sense of atmosphere. Amid its tumultuous guitars, brooding instrumentals, and sense of rage, it showcases new depth that keeps the listener on their toes.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Friday, 07 November 2025

Creeper - Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death (Album Review)

Photo: Harry Steel While Creeper’s 2017 debut LP ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’ propelled the horror-punk band towards the mainstream, they haven’t sought to replicate its crossover blueprint in the intervening years. Their latest effort, ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death’, is a tantalising theatrical successor to the critically acclaimed ‘Sanguivore’, taking musical inspiration from heavy metal legends Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Friday, 07 November 2025

Skullcrusher - And Your Song Is Like A Circle (Album Review)

Photo: Adam Alonzo Skullcrusher’s ‘And Your Song Is Like A Circle’ is a gorgeous, shimmering slice of folk with layered, ghostly harmonies. With songs built around elegant piano and acoustic guitar, plus scattered electronics and beats, New York singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine creates a dreamscape as she probes the way grief turns itself out, the feeling itself becoming as real and substantial as what’s been lost.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Thursday, 06 November 2025

Cat Burns - How To Be Human (Album Review)

Following a Mercury Prize nomination for 2024’s ‘Early Twenties’, Cat Burns confronts grief and heartbreak with unflinching honesty on her second album. Across 16 tracks, ‘How To Be Human’ documents the loss of her grandfather and post-breakup devastation alongside the blossoming hope of new love, trading sonic ambition for emotional directness.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Wednesday, 05 November 2025

Claire Rousay - A Little Death (Album Review)

Photo: Katherine Squier Fittingly, given its Halloween release date, ‘A Little Death’ is one of those rare albums that you don’t really notice at first, before it creeps up on you and worms its way inside your body and, finally, your soul.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Tuesday, 04 November 2025

Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Album Review)

Photo: Autumn De Wilde On ‘Everybody Scream’, it feels like Florence Welch has become more myth than person, more folk goddess than a singer in a timeless band. Boasting an enchanting theme tightly woven like medieval tapestry, here Florence walks candlelit corridors while reciting a soul-bearing odyssey. The record’s Halloween release date is surely no coincidence as the band gleefully leans into imagery of witches and sorcery, perhaps inspiring the formation of a coven or two.

Written by: James Palaczky | Date: Tuesday, 04 November 2025

The Charlatans - We Are Love (Album Review)

Photo: Cat Stevens The Charlatans have been mainstays on the UK indie scene since the early ‘90s, with hits like One to Another and The Only One I Know among 22 Top 40 singles. Off the back of that, the band continue to be festival favourites, but they have been surprisingly quiet of late when it comes to original material. 

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 03 November 2025

Circa Waves - Death & Love Pt.2 (Album Review)

Photo: Polocho Released at the start of the year, Circa Waves’ ‘Death & Love Pt. 1’ found Kieran Shudall mulling over starting from scratch after his lowest point and a brush with mortality. Its follow up, though, marks a new wave of expression for the Liverpool band — it’s a bubbling, Strokes-inspired payoff to a period of hard graft.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Monday, 03 November 2025