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NME’s Songwriter Award winner Jack Antonoff’s 10 best songs so far
The Bleachers frontman has changed the shape of modern pop

Alice Glass – ‘PREY//IV’ review: a cathartic, horror-infused creative reclamation
On her solo debut, the former Crystal Castle blends warped pop with brutal honesty

Beach House – ‘Once Twice Melody’ review: surrealist dream-poppers turn the page
The Baltimore duo's eighth record pairs trippy imagery with playful, cinematic sounds

“There was a sense of optimism”: how ’00s indie sleaze made a massive comeback
The era that gave us chillwave and extraordinarily tight jeans is back back back

Big Thief – ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ review: a new chapter
The Brooklyn-formed band's fifth album explores a broad range of sounds, and comes filled with openness

Cate Le Bon – ‘Pompeii’ review: penetrating art-pop with a surreal sense of isolation
The Welsh artist's sixth record wields strange imagery in gloomy ways

Mitski – ‘Laurel Hell’ review: meta musings set to her grandest music yet
The singer-songwriter's sixth album blends hints of disco strut with bold theatricality

‘Parallel Mothers’ review: Pedro Almodóvar’s new arrival comes laced with meaning
The Spanish auteur's latest serves up some hard-learned truths

Alice Glass: “I never thought I would be talking openly like this… about anything”
How the brutally honest artist poured the “pain” of Crystal Castles into her debut solo album ‘PREY//IV’

MØ – ‘Motordrome’ review: rebellious star’s smouldering slow-pop stays in one lane
The Danish artist's third record offers up an intriguing new sound

Years & Years – ‘Night Call’ review: escapism rules on Olly Alexander’s solo debut
This record's subversion is smuggled into pounding, playful pop songs

FKA twigs – ‘Caprisongs’ mixtape review: the brightest, poppiest music of her career
After the emotional toll of making 2019's ‘Magdalene’ this varied collection shows a new side to the once unattainable star