Lidell layers on 80s pop-soul production techniques for his latest studio album.
A sad and sweet collaboration, arranged with tender loving care.
Fourteen years on, this still sounds like the undiscovered future of rock‘n’roll.
Beautiful and bereft, and hard to listen to with easy joy.
Noir shouldn’t get too down on himself, for he may just be a genius.
Dear’s excellent fifth album delivers a bigger, more accessible sound.
This second solo LP makes politics sound like the sexiest thing in the world.
The kind of politicised party album they just don’t make anymore.
It may sound like cliché over compliment, but this really is her best LP since Horses.
An elegant, charming and quietly profound record.
Roxy Music guitarist backs some worthy poetry on this experimental collaboration.
Hugely impressive, technically, but too cold and forbidding for many tastes.
Electro pioneer Foxx sounds more relevant in 2012 than he ever has.
A poor LP that proves that Mark E. Smith alone does not The Fall make.
A work of art about the ordinary person’s ability to reinvent themselves.
A depressingly compromised second LP from an artist yet to meet his early promise.
The long-overdue fourth great Magazine album finally arrives.
A pure, you’re-only-as-old-as-you-feel joy of a fifth album from the Brit-hopper.
A tired-sounding fourth album from a band trapped in the past.
Sheffield producer delivers an accomplished, relevant and unifying second LP.
A very beautiful third album from the orchestral ensemble.
The ideal album to soundtrack wistful contemplation on balmy summer days.
Indie-folk duo releases their best album yet, with a little help from a Mad Man.
Jaw-dropping bravery mixes with brooding electronics and funky warmth.
The Hackney popper has unwisely left behind her more oddball leanings.
Texan trio sends a short, sharp love letter straight to your heart.
Folk singer’s second LP features strong songs delivered with an elegant naivety.
Album proper or not, there’s no denying this is greatly entertaining stuff.
Liverpool synth-pop four-piece unveil an attractive best-of set.
Sensual whispers and twilight moans from the Baltimore duo.
A ridiculous but brilliant debut.
They play alternative guitar music better than any young British band you can name.
Sixth studio album from the Los Angeles hip hop group.
The first genuinely exciting, no-filler, pure pop full-length album since The Fame.
Second LP makes their debut seem like the sketchbook for a gallery of masterpieces.
Makes a strong claim to be 2010’s best electronic album.
Cave and co exhibit a bigger, fuller sound on their second LP.
Interesting vocalists ensure David Sitek’s latest project is never bland.
Lennon’s solo debut is still grossly underrated.
A weird, ramshackle collection of eclectic gems.
Electro duo confidently melds the approaches of Hercules and Love Affair and Fever Ray.
A voice like a booze-addled death row inmate, a mind like an existential pulp novelist.
One of the most deeply satisfying debut albums of recent times.
A fascinating album of evocative warmth and unusual spontaneity.
