Dara Higgins revisits 2016 releases from Julia Jacklin, Tim Burgess, Dinosaur jr, The Divine Comedy, Mick Harvey & The Felice Brothers
'a triumph of non-understanding over literalness; of reaching and grasping and flailing in the dark and realizing you enjoy that a lot more than having an issue spelled out to you' - John Lynch on 50FootWave's Bath White
'It’s all beauty in song drifting on the river between joy and fear' – MacDara Conroy on Áine O’Dwyer’s Music for Church Cleaners Vol I & II
'we see what happens when the political becomes deeply personal' - Hugh McCabe on Anohni's HOPELESSNESS
"When I play the songs I forget about all this" - Niall McGuirk on Arbor Labor Union's Sub Pop debut I Hear You
Ash's 6th LP Kablammo! is just 'a bit too familiar', says CJ McCanney
"Were this a purely instrumental album, it would be an excellent one" - Neill Dougan on Will Oldham's latest collaboration
Before Ever After is the same Blind Idiot God as before, except now in glorious high definition, says MacDara Conroy
'disorienting dispatches from a dark dream world' - Hugh McCabe on Chelsea Wolfe's 5th LP Abyss
Circle's Terminal is 'one to tune up your air guitar for' says John Kealy