Album Reviews

The Game explores his legacy with classic samples and riffs on his signature material

Tinashe's fourth album boasts flashes of her distinct personality, which is also sometimes obscured by genre-hopping

This is more gentle and folky than his last solo album 'Ogilala’, but the famously controlling musician often overcooks his lyrics and melodies

The rapper, currently serving a 20-year stretch, has teamed up with super-producer Kenny Beats to craft an immersive movie-themed mixtape

The Charli XCX collaborator has a gift for unknotting messy emotions, though the buoyant pop works better than the sluggish ballads

Chris Martin and co. take on heady themes of love, war, racism, faith, gun control, friendship, climate change, police brutality and more. This inventive eighth album is proof that Coldplay are more adventurous than they're often given credit for

The duo, who next week will play NME's latest Girls to The Front gig in London, part of our series that champions women and no-binary artists, are a vital addition to the punk landscape

He died in 1994, but on the massively influential singer-songwriter's first posthumous album, he sounds more like Mac DeMarco than Mac himself

It's Chriiiiiiistmas! Well, not quite – unless you're in the Williams household. Robbie wants to relinquish Bublé’s icy grip on the festive season, and he might just get his wish

This bite-sized EP (five breakneck songs clock in at under five minutes) references disparate influences such as Haim and Prince. It's a Charli-endorsed riot