Amyl and the Sniffers are back with fighting words and fist-pumping energy

Amyl and the Sniffers are back with fighting words and fist-pumping energy

New album Cartoon Darkness starts with a vicious smackdown of critics – and things only get better from there.

  • byMichael Dwyer

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Amyl and the Sniffers release uncensored version of nude music video

Amyl and the Sniffers release uncensored version of nude music video

The Australian punk rock band’s music video has been lauded as powerful by body positivity advocates.

  • byAngus Delaney
Lara Trump’s new Hero song met with derision

Lara Trump’s new Hero song met with derision

Here’s an artist whose music Donald Trump may be able to use in his rallies after several big names forbade the use of their tracks.

  • byTony Diver
Derivative and dated,Katy Perry’s new album is worse than we feared

Derivative and dated,Katy Perry’s new album is worse than we feared

In distancing herself from the doe-eyed goofball of her Teenage Dream days,143 is a colossal misstep from which Perry’s career may never recover.

  • byRobert Moran andAnnabel Ross
The new album from this superstar is pop at its most fun,fizzy and sex-forward

The new album from this superstar is pop at its most fun,fizzy and sex-forward

On Short n’ Sweet,Sabrina Carpenter leans all the way into her bawdy brand of frothy pop.

  • byGiselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
The ghosts haunting Nick Cave’s biblical new album

The ghosts haunting Nick Cave’s biblical new album

On their 18th album together,Nick Cave&the Bad Seeds go searching for the light.

  • byJohn Shand,Robert Moran andBarry Divola
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Katy Perry is back with a ‘feminist’ anthem. It’s a train wreck

Katy Perry is back with a ‘feminist’ anthem. It’s a train wreck

Katy Perry’s much-anticipated new single begins with the lyrics “sexy,confident,so intelligent”. Unfortunately,it is none of those things.

  • byMeg Watson
I was never supposed to hear this album. It changed how I think about art

I was never supposed to hear this album. It changed how I think about art

In 2015,Wu-Tang Clan released a single-copy album. This year,a handful of listening parties meant the public could hear it for the first time.

  • byElizabeth Flux
This documentary is the most revealing exploration of a musician’s art you’ll ever see

This documentary is the most revealing exploration of a musician’s art you’ll ever see

Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney was given one instruction by Paul Simon:“The music has to sound good.”

  • byTom Ryan
Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet

Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet

Texturally brash and genuinely affecting,the pop iconoclast’s new album is a must-hear.

  • byJules LeFevre
This album feels destined to become a seminal Gen Z breakup record

This album feels destined to become a seminal Gen Z breakup record

Gracie Abrams,nepo baby and Taylor Swift acolyte,has crafted one of the year’s best pop releases.

  • byAnnabel Ross andTom W. Clarke