Gabi Garbutt: Radical Love (INH Records) Released 19 June 2026 CD | Vinyl | DL | Streaming No-one can accuse Gabi Garbutt’s new album of lacking intensity. Its 10 shimmering songs about the transformative power of love will stick in your brain with limpet-like persistence. Robert Plummer enjoys the radical chic. Gabi Garbutt is standing […]

The post Gabi Garbutt: Radical Love – Album Review…

Lost Highway RecordsProducers: Kacey Musgraves, Daniel Tashian, Ian Fitchuk Kacey Musgraves pays homage to her Texan roots with her seventh studio album Middle of Nowhere. The album does a good job at showcasing ​​Musgraves’ magnetic personality through her witty humor and tongue-in-cheek songwriting, especially on tracks like “Dry Spell” and “Mexico Honey.” The album also has its somber moments…

The North Carolinian artist delivers a cathartic break-up album, overcoming resignation with a new sense of resolution and self-compassion

The post Kelsey Lu – ‘So Help Me God’ review: ambitious pop auteur resurges with a riveting testimony appeared first on NME.

The third time’s the third charm for Olivia Rodrigo, who is beginning to look like she might be constutionally incapable of not turning in one of the year’s most diverting albums, in any given try. Not many artists have started off with as smashing a three-peat as Rodrigo and her producer/co-writer partner Dan Nigro, who’ve […]

Dogshite: Violation (Grow Your Own) LP | CD | DL Out Now Grow Your Own Records serve up another slab of rabble rousing punk rock, this time with a bit of crusty skank thrown in. Dogshite refuse to grow old, or if they can’t stop the passing of time they will grow old disgracefully. This […]

The post Dogshite: Violation – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

P Paul Fenech: Dancing At The End Of The World Mutant Rock Records LP | DL Out on 27th July 2026 Steve ‘Spike’ Sommer gets the lowdown on P Paul Fenech’s 14th solo album: Dancing At The Edge Of The World – “I never thought I’d get this far, but I’m still here y’know…” I […]

The post P Paul Fenech: Dancing At The End Of The World – Album Review and Interview appeared first on Louder Than War.

Micko & The Mellotronics The Trinity Landline Records CD | LP | DL available here out 12 June 2026 Follow up to 2023’s Le Vice Anglais and the third album by the London-based art-pop band built around Micko Westmoreland and his songwriting. The best of the trilogy or just more curious, literate works of idiosyncratic […]

The post Micko & The Mellotronics: The Trinity – Review – ALBUM OF THE…

The Bobby Lees: New Self (Epitaph) LP | CD | DL Released 12th June, 2026 After announcing an indefinite hiatus, burnt out by the battering of the music industry, The Bobby Lees return with an album of pure defiance. It hits hard…exactly where and how it should. BUY HERE It felt like no sooner had […]

The post The Bobby Lees: New Self – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

Slift: Fantasia (Sub Pop) LP | CD | DL Out 5th of June, 2026 On their fourth album, Slift revel in a controlled chaos on an album that recognises the turmoil of our time while still maintaining hope. A dose of magical realism from France’s finest purveyors of heavy psych. BUY HERE We have travelled […]

The post Slift: Fantasia – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

Poppy Ackroyd: Liminal One Little Independent Vinyl | CD | Digital Released 5thJune Adam Brady reviews the new album from Poppy Ackroyd, Liminal. Five years since her last, it reintroduces the violin as a key part of her sound, and explores how that and the piano can sing. Poppy Ackroyd’s new album Liminal comes five […]

The post Poppy Ackroyd: Liminal – Album Review appeared first on Louder…

Brainfeeder RecordsProducers: Greg Kurstin, Flying Lotus, Kenneth Blume Any album that leans into intergalactic detours and Star Wars nods is bound to be both nerdy and cool as hell. Distracted, Thundercat’s fifth album, fully commits, unfolding as a dreamy expanse of futuro-jazz-funk threaded with a constant undercurrent of soul—and it might be the most geek-chic record to land in recent years.…

Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer) LP | CD | DL Out now Iceage return with album six, a fantastic ride through a myriad of wonky post-punk grooves. This could just be their best album to date. BUY HERE As a band that have constantly developed and expanded their sound across […]

The post ALBUM OF THE WEEK! Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter – Review appeared first…

Broken Down Golf Cart: Funeral Smoker (self-released) DL | Streaming Out Now BUY HERE Broken Down Golf Cart release DIY debut album, Funeral Smoker. Andy Brown finds something fuzzy, melodic and deeply personal. Broken Down Golf Cart is the work of Canadian-born, Liverpool-based songwriter, producer and self-styled ‘visual art unicorn’ Jen Baranick. A staunchly […]

The post Broken Down Golf…

Christopher Tignor: Bleeding Past the Edges Western Vinyl Vinyl | Digital Released 29 May Christopher Tignor is set to release his sixth solo album Bleeding Past the Edges. Man, violin, and self-coded software amalgamate in neo-classical experimentalism. To call Christopher Tignor a polymath seems a little understated. Though what else can you call a man […]

The post Christopher Tignor: Bleeding…

RECORDS/Columbia RecordsProducers: Slayyyter, Valley Girl, Austin Corona, Wyatt Bernard, Hamish, Yakob, Owen Jackson Slayyyter’s been kicking around since 2018, dropping killer tracks like “BFF” and “Hello Kitty,” and eventually the 2021 album Troubled Paradise and the 2023 follow-up Starfucker. And yet it feels very much like this is her time. Right fucking now! Her third album, Worst Girl in…

The Leeds quartet’s second album is a deliberately more intense listening experience than their breakout debut

The post Static Dress – ‘Injury Episode’ review: beautifully brutal post-hardcore from defiant art punks appeared first on NME.

With a little help from Ringo, pop’s twinkly eyed granddad gets nostalgic on an album that also finds him pushing forward musically

The post Paul McCartney – ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’ review: a guided tour of the long and winding road appeared first on NME.

Leah Callahan: Our Lady Of The Sad Adventure (Self-Released) Released 1 June 2026 DL | Streaming Prolific Bostonian singer-songwriter Leah Callahan returns with her most confident blend of UK alternative music styles to date. From shoegaze to synth-pop and beyond, she takes a deep dive into her past and ours. Robert Plummer falls in love […]

The post Leah Callahan: Our Lady Of The Sad Adventure…

Love, Burns: Pavement Drawings (Spinout Nuggets/Jigsaw) LP | CD | DL Out 29th May, 2026 Third album from Love, Burns, led by Phil Sutton, revels in the adoration of jangle-pop at its most beautiful. There is something wonderful that floats from the speakers as soon as the needle drops, something plaintive and yearning. As the […]

The post Love, Burns: Pavement Drawings – Album Review appeared…

Cress/Amass – What Are The Government Scared Of? (Grow Your Own) LP | CD | DL Out Now A double dose of anarcho-punk uses the suppression of gatherings at Stonehenge as a central theme to explore how we are controlled, and how lies keep us playing our part in maintaining the system. Nathan Brown writes. […]

The post ALBUM OF THE WEEK! Cress/Amass: What Are The Government Scared Of? – Review…

Hue And Cry: Everybody (Blairhill Records) Released 29 May 2026 CD | Vinyl | Blu-ray | DL | Streaming One of this year’s best synth-pop albums hails from an unlikely source. Hue And Cry have no track record in electronic music, but their 16th studio album marks a refreshing change of style. It’s certainly made […]

The post Hue And Cry: Everybody – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

The Family Men: CO/DE/TERMINATION Welfare Sounds LP/CD/DL Out now Swedish industrial titans The Family Men return with a powerful second album, adding funk to their fury. Christopher Lloyd reviews. Gothenburg’s The Family Men established themselves on the industrial rock scene a few years back with an incendiary set of live shows around the big three […]

The post The Family Men:…

Paul McCartney is a master of the fake-out. The first feint around his new album, “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” came when he released “Days We Left Behind” as the first single, an exceedingly gentle and wistful ballad that allowed for the possibility that the whole LP might be a collection of acoustic memory songs. […]

Thin Lear: Many Disappeared (First City Artists) LP | DL Out Now From the foremost Poet of the Broken Heart and cosmopolitan musician’s musician, we are presented with collected reports of the life less travelled, […]

The post Thin Lear: Many Disappeared – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

DistroKidProducers: Bella Litsa, Hayden Ticehurst, Huxley Kuhlmann Ethereal voicings lead in the first full-length ornamental pop collection from Cypriot-American Bella Litsa. With inspiration ranging from baroque to Billboard, Litsa explores grand living through her haunting operatic sound—lilting vocals dance over rich, clean instrumental arrangements that juxtapose orchestral flourishes…

The Coral: 388 (Run On) LP The Coral release 388, a surprise album that drips in nostalgia for their own past. Beautiful and timeless. The news seeped out, dripped posts on social media here and there, no fanfare, nothing official. The Coral’s new album was in the shops, a select few, to come across and […]

The post The Coral: 388 – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War.

The Milk Carton Kids: Lost Cause Lover Fool (Far Cry Records / Thirty Tigers) CD | Vinyl | Limited LP Out now Martin Gray takes a listen to the seventh album of original songs by US indie folk duo Milk Carton Kids and delights in the album’s understated and blissfully hushed reverie. In a world […]

The post The Milk Carton Kids : Lost Cause Lover Fool – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than…

JK FLESH/MONRELLA: SHOUTING THE ODDS (GIVE/TAKE | Avalanche) DL | LP | CD Out Now – Order HERE Louder Than War talks to Justin Broadrick and Mick Harris about their new album, SHOUTING THE ODDS. A demonstration of what each artist’s arsenal is bursting with as distinctly split release, yet a collaborative concentration of overlapping […]

The post JK FLESH/MONRELLA: SHOUTING THE ODDS – Album…

The Boo Radleys In Spite Of Everything (Boostr Records) LP | CD | 2CD | DL Out now The Boo Radleys’ ninth album In Spite Of Everything is a hook-ridden collection of new songs which deal variously with themes of tragic loss, grieving, fractured friendships and betrayal but still comes up triumphant and resolute (melodically […]

The post The Boo Radleys : In Spite Of Everything – Album Review…

Bugeye: The Shape of Things (INH Records) All Formats Available Out Now Buy Here Croydon based queer electro-pop outfit Bugeye return with second album The Shape of Things, available now on INH Records It’s been almost a decade since Loud Women’s first brought Bugeye to LTW’s attention and more than 5 years since their debut […]

The post Bugeye: The Shape of Things – Album Review appeared first…