"'And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow' gently bombards you with one fantastic tune after another" - Guardian's Alexis Petridis writes in praise of Weyes Blood's new album (it's Petridis' Album of the Week). Pitchfork finds "a dispatch from the center of catastrophe—an idiosyncratic set of love songs and secular hymns with lushly orchestral arrangements" (tagged it Best New Music). The Line of Best Fit hears "a timeless classic, this record is one that you can revisit whenever you want to hear the comforting sounds of another soul trying to figure it all out". NME goes beyond the album itself: "By being pliable, open and more tender, Mering seems to suggest, perhaps we can save ourselves from the doom that this stunning record finds itself gripped within".

The list goes from 'Titanic Rising' by Weyes Blood at the top (because "we too are lost in the stars"), to 'Animated Violence Mild' by the Blanck Mass at the spot No. 50 ("one of the harshest sounding albums"). Check out the full list here. BV made a separate list of 40 best indie-music albums - here […]

For the full list go here; the top 10 are below: 10. Purple Mountains: 'Purple Mountains'9. Weyes Blood: 'Titanic Rising'8. Fennesz: 'Agora'7. Helado Negro: 'This Is How You Smile'6. Bad Bunny: 'X 100PRE'5. Solange: 'When I Get Home'4. Angel Olsen: 'All Mirrors'3. Big Thief: 'U.F.O.F.'2. FKA twigs: 'MAGDALENE'1. Lana Del Rey: 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!'

Slowthai's favourite album of the 2010s is 'Die Lit' by Playboi Carti because it is "our generation’s hardcore music". To Weyes Blood it's Connan Mockasin’s 'Caramel', "a progressive concept album with some beautiful sadness sprinkled in between". "A whopper and hella refined" - Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs said about her choice, 'Silence Yourself' […]

Part of 'I Feel Saved' can be heard in the trailer for the new movie 'Age Out' (watch/listen below), directed by A.J. Edwards. The movie is scored by Colin Stetson (his unmissable sax is heard towards the end of the trailer).

They look pretty much neo-hippie (how else, they're covering Mitchell, right?) and sound, well, great. Watch below.

“What I think of as popular song isn’t 21st century pop, which to me is a totally different beast. It’s usually more the nostalgic version of popular music from the 20th century. I really love chord changes and lots of meaning in lyrics. A lot of money was given to weirdos in the studio to […]

"Lushly orchestrated throwback to the golden age of ’70s singer-songwriter pop and ’60s Laurel Canyon folk, two musical traditions intimately entwined with the mythical history of her Los Angeles home... Searching for meaning and love and connection in an era that feels on the precipice of an apocalypse, the personal and the political all wrapped […]