A debut album that wears its influences rather obviously, but not without potential.
A unique vision, but one that accompanying visuals proper would undoubtedly bring to life.
Effortlessly transports the listener to extraordinary mind’s-eye horizons.
American quintet’s debut LP is an infectiously excellent set of utmost merriment.
An easy-going, superbly summery second album from the Californian quartet.
Catalogue classics from the legendary Chicago label arranged across four discs.
The man behind Umbrella and Single Ladies releases an excellent third solo album.
Second remix record from the LA-based four-piece is another mighty success.
A nostalgic listen of swinging soulful tunes.
An album of a high standard, with much more to offer than the hit Wavin’ Flag.
A track-for-track remake played with love, but no ambition to better the original.
On his seventh album Eminem is more genuinely impassioned than he’s sounded in years.
Somehow both tremendously boisterous and horrendously bland.
A truly disarming debut of open-hearted melancholic splendour.
Continues the Twilight series’ commitment to a beyond-the-expected cast of artists.
Long favourite of the chillwave scene releases his UK debut.
A perfect primer for a stable that has produced numerous global superstars.
Give the girl a second and she’ll steal your heart.
She can hold her own with the majority of her peers.
Bedroom-born indie is transformed into luscious examinations of the human condition.
Or, more accurately, It’s Father’s Day: Have a(nother) Jimi Hendrix Best-Of.
Thirty-eight tracks that serve to summarise the OGWT ethos.
Set to prolong their critical love affair with a resolute classiness.
A confident, affecting set where folk tradition meets engaging narratives.
An excellent electro-pop affair from a duo best known for their folk excursions.
Appealing debut from one of 2010’s breakout stars, already a US number one.
What’s not apparent from these songs is just how brilliant a man their maker is.
Appealing solo debut from Jack White’s model wife and friends.
Their best album yet, almost as enjoyable as their frenetic live performances.
Alluring emissions from the darker corners of contemporary electronica.
There’s no excuse for not having this landmark album in your collection.
Sleek electro-pop that deserves a wider audience.
Largely plays to expectations, limited though they are through experience.
A soundtrack to lift the heaviest of heads from narcotic slumber.
Heartbeats charms with such ease that it’s hard to accept it’s a debut.
The House is largely a success – those boxes, again, have been ticked.
A collaboration that fuses traits with few discernable flaws.
A great live band, but with limited audience potential beyond a hardened few.
A trove of surprises unlike many an American Idol-affiliated effort.
Embraces the listener with a silken touch, seducing them with beguiling beauty.
This is a firecracker of an album, but one deeply entrenched in hardcore’s past.
The landmark album now features a bonus live set worthy of (re)investment.
Knocks every pretender to the band’s throne into the middle of next week.
The New Yorkers’ finest disc to date is a potential album of the year.
Vickers has a voice to stand out from any crowd.
Welcome introduction to Holmes’s wonderfully varied but consistently appealing output.
Dylan’s second solo LP manifests a relaxed mood and maintains it marvellously.
Harlem don’t want your brains – they want your shoes, the dancing kind.
Only the most cynical soul could deny jj a place in their heart.
The underground mavericks present a fourth album full of commercial potential.
