Off! – Wasted Years
On their third full-length studio album, punk supergroup Off! sound comfortingly consistent, according to Michael Hann's G2 review of Wasted Years. Dishing out four stars to the self-proclaimed “gang of grown-ass punk heroes”, Hann wrote: “Hardcore is as much about its physical impact as its melodies, but Off! deliver both – you can feel the whumph against your sternum from the likes of All I Can Grab, but, equally, the riff sells you on a repeat listening, and that's the case across all 16 tracks here.”
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Off!'s Void You Out
EMA – The Future’s Void
Erika M Anderson’s second solo album mixed just the right levels of angst with reflections on how creepy the internet can be, meriting a four-star review from Kitty Empire. “A crass phrase like "the future's void” … misadvertises a thoughtful album that owes something to the blues as well as science-fiction dystopias or the negativity of industrial rock,” Empire wrote, in her lead review for the Observer.
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to EMA's Satellites
Melingo – Linyera
In G2, Robin Denselow gave a solid four stars to Daniel Melongo, an eccentric multi-instrumentalist from Buenos Aires’s tango scene. “As ever,” Denselow wrote, “he sings about his city's lowlife, and uses the persona of a linyera (a vagabond) as the starting point for his unusual and sophisticated songs.”
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Melindo's La Canción del Linyera
Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
The rather wonderfully-bearded Norwegian DJ’s debut album picked up a four-star review from the New Review’s Molloy Woodcraft. It’s Album Time pulls in influences from several genres, and “if you fell out of love with dance music at the end of the 1990s, this may be the record to get you back in front of the big speakers”, Woodcraft wrote.
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Todd Terje's Johnny and Mary
Ratking – So It Goes
Finally, Paul MacInnes handed four stars to hip hop crew Ratking, and their New York City-focused debut album. “The city provides much of the lyrical focus, from love and money to gentrification and police brutality, but Wiki and Hak keenly observe the details of their physical environment, too,” MacInnes wrote.
Click here to read the Critics reviews section in the Observer New Review and here for content from last Friday’s G2 Film & Music (scroll down for the music reviews). Let us know which albums you’re looking forward to hearing this week in the comments section.
