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Album: Alice Cooper – Raise the Dead: Live From Wacken

This album serves only to evidence the irrefutable fact that everything Alice Cooper has ever released sounds exactly the same

Album: Superfood – Don’t Say That

Superfood manage to produce a debut album which is both thorough and fucking fun

Album: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave a Sea Of Tongues

The album is a return to form for Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Album: The Marmozets – The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets

Zakk Brown finds that the title of the new Marmozets album proves accurate

Album: James Yorkston – The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society

James Yorkston’s 8th studio album is pretty boring, says Amna Shaddad

Album: Electric Youth – Innerworld

Innerworld is both immersive and otherworldly in even measure

From the Vault: Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender

“The whole album sounds like an aural iteration of some Baltic tapestry”

Album: Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge

Katie Burns wonders if Jamie T’s sound can fit comfortably into today’s music scene

Album: Yellowcard – Lift a Sail

Shabab Tahsin looks at Yellowcards ninth studio album and asks if their new sound is dragging them down

Album: Interpol – El Pintor

Interpol’s struggle to deliver original material is clear

Album: Motionless In White – Reincarnate

Reincarnate is an hour of industrial barminess and Wednesday 13-esque disarray

Album: U2 – Songs Of Innocence

Songs of Innocence is the album U2 have been trying to make for over a decade

Album: Alt-J – This Is All Yours

This Is All Yours does enough to silence the doubters, says Alex Daniel

Album: Jungle – Jungle

Dinesh Mattu reviews the self-titled album by mysterious experimental disco duo Jungle

From the Vault: Daniel Johnston – 1990

Daniel Johnston’s 1990 is full of profound moments of imperfection.

Album: Handguns – Life Lessons

Life Lessons is not a departure from 2012’s deeply treasured debut Angst, but is a fitting sequel that has continued its momentum

Album: Real Friends – Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing

Real Friends’ debut full length falls just short of the mark

Album: The Black Keys – Turn Blue

The Black Keys attempt evolution

Mixtape: Bas – Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II

These tracks are about the transformation from identifying your dreams to being at the point where they become realised

Album: Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once

There are no words strong or grotesque enough to describe the jaded horror of this monstrous album