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