Matthew Latham

Atmospheric, powerful and showcasing the songwriting talents of Paloma. But at 56 minutes it's a little too long for my tastes so some of the songs by the midpoint being to drag.

Bizarrely - This contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home.

You know in Spider-Man No Way Home it feels as if they've condensed Andrew Garfield's Amazing Spider-Man 3 arc in around thirty minutes? There's elements here that feels like Lily Allen and and Lady Sovereign have appeared in the Caity Baser Universe to assist in the fight against everything and everyone. At several points this feels like the third Lady Sovereign album we never had ("I'm a Problem" even has an Ordinary Boys-style ska-breakdown appear half way through alongside similar vocal inflections in the chorus).

But there's a lot of fun in this. The aforementioned 20 years of pop-rap combine with flourishes of modern dance-pop, so you can throw in… More

Easily my favourite artist in the last five years, she's number 1 on my last.fm, she's also had first place in my best of lists two years in a row (2021 and 2022). So I was really looking forward to this.

If not as immediate as debut Garageband Superstar, Girlfriend Material definitely feels more personal, intimate and accomplished. With huge life events happening to Hibberd over the last 18 months, the album explores coping through that. From grief from the death of a family member to the grief of the end of a long-term relationship.

I've always felt that alongside the fun self-deprecation, Hibberd has always managed to do melancholic introspection really well. Older songs like "Shark Week" and… More

It's the first album of his I've liked since probably Positive Songs, and there's quite a few great songs in this - but loses steam a little near the end. Feels buy-the-numbers at times, but Turner can craft a good folk-punk pop-hook when he puts his mind to it and this album has that a plenty.

Lovely little summer-y album that full on heavy pop production that conjures images of listening to the early 00s dance radio mixed in with early MGMT style synth. Lots of of fun to have.