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A trip down teenage memory lane with more than a hint of bleak melacholia on the debut album from 20 year old Sophie Allison...

Eight heads are better than one as we review the debut release from Superorganism, an international music collective...

After 2004's seminal album, here we are 14 years and four albums later. Have the Glaswegian five held onto their early magic?...

31 years old and with six albums already under his belt, Ezra Furman takes us on a cinematic journey...

Following on from the success of debut album Ratchet, Shamir returns with a new record that is a notable change of pace...

An exquisite blast from the past as we take an intergalactic trip with the Newport rap collective on an album that's bursting at the seams with Welsh pride...

After the unprecedented success of their debut album, Days Are Gone, family band HAIM return after four years away with their long-awaited follow-up. Will it live up to their first endeavour?...

Featuring the latest from Whitehorse, Sarah Jaffe and This Is The Kit...

The follow-up album to 2013 smash hit Pure Heroine sees the New Zealand songstress reaching for a more mature high. Will she get there or will old habits die hard?...

Featuring the latest releases from Nickelback, Beth Ditto and Portugal.The Man...

Four years after the success of their debut album, we see the return of Cockney trio London Grammar. Will it represent a pay out on early promise or a career full stop?...

Featuring a lesson in mediocrity from Katy Perry and a cosmic field trip with Sufjan Stevens and friends...

After 2 years of singles and EPs, it's time to see if all the hype was correct as we run the rule over the debut album from pop sensation Dua Lipa...

Featuring a surreal trip with alt-J and a journey into Halsey's hopeless fountain kingdom...

It's been 17 years since their first album Hybrid Theory became one of the biggest selling debuts of all time. 7 albums in, is there any sign that they are running out of steam?...

Featuring the latest releases from nu metal pioneers Papa Roach and nostalgia-driven Pokey LaFarge...

Where once there were five, now only one stands. See if the latest offshoot from the One Direction greenhouse flourishes into bloom or withers like a perennial weed...

Featuring the latest releases from a much-changed Paramore and American legend Todd Rundgren...

After an extended period of still life, the cartoon heroes return with their fifth studio album...

Featuring John Mellencamp, a glee-filled Lea Michele and a little bit of Feist...

Father John Misty sends down a political text of an album that will fuel your drunken conversations for months to come...

Featuring debut albums from The Chainsmokers and Blaenavon and the return of Michelle Branch...

The ninth studio album from (arguably) the coolest lady in music might just be her best record yet...

Featuring the legendary Bob Dylan, a comeback from Nelly Furtado and NFL superstar Martellus Bennett...

The undisputed Captain of the music industry returns with his fifth studio album. He's hurt and bitter and he doesn't think you're as beautiful as he once did...

Featuring the latest albums from perennial weeds Take That and Mike Posner-fronted group Mansionz...

You've heard the singles, now here comes the album from Swedish pop starlet Zara Larsson. So Good gives itself top billing but can it live up to its name?...

Drake gets in the kitchen, Depeche Mode take to the streets and Counterfeit try to get out of Jamie's shadow...

Laura Marling helps us celebrate International Women's Day with an album that celebrates the beauty and variety of feminine relationships and connections...

Featuring new releases from Bush (with Gavin Rossdale?), Jay Som, The Shins and an opus from The Magnetic Fields...

The return from a social media hiatus of the best thing from West Yorkshire since the Brontës. It will sell but is it any good? Let's find out...

Featuring a long awaited solo release from Alison Krauss, a new album from Dia Frampton and the debut record by Khalid...