Hatchie, Liquorice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌ Hatchie opened up the latchie and out came her third album. And let me tell ya, you must be smoking on the wacky tobaccy if you think it’s lacky. I know this first paragraph is a bit hackey. Anyways, enough of that. I usually don’t like to compare artists in reviews because I just think it’s bad form, but this so clearly has the Cocteau Twins’ DNA all over it. If you are a fan of that brand of 1980s - early 90s dream pop, boy, you are in for a treat. But this album is more...

Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌ Florence Welch and co are back with a new album. It’s kind of tradition at this point for me to tell a joke in this first paragraph, so here it goes… When their playing live and the band messes up, do you think Florence ever has to rage against the Machine? Anyways, not my best work. But, this album might just be Florence Welch’s best work. The lyricism is really superb here, with themes of witchcraft, physical pain and emotional grief, and the general anger that comes with being a woman in this...

Lily Allen, West End Girl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lily Allen is back with her first album in seven years, and boy… Hell hath no fury. I hope you’re not a David Harbour fan. I’m sure Netflix is real happy that this came out right before the final season of Stranger Things. As I alluded to, this album is a brutally honest, and explicitly detailed, examination of the dissolution of her and David Harbour’s marriage. And no, it does not paint him in a good light. But I think the more interesting side of this album is her very human reaction to his...

Tame Impala, Deadbeat ⭐️⭐️❌❌❌ Kevin Parker, AKA Tame Impala, is back with a new album. Their first in five years. The name Tame Impala implies the existence of Wild Impala… Which I would have rather been listening to here. Honestly, the title Deadbeat is very fitting, because by the time you reach the end of this album you feel like the one song idea he seems to have had on this album has been beaten to death. Seriously, every song blends into each other. There’s no real unique identity to any of them. They all have a similar mid tempo...