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Taylor's Version improves a modern pop classic while revisiting a defining moment in Swift's career.

There are fleeting moments of beauty on the safest and least inspired record of James Blake's career.

A perfect reflection of its creator in 2021, DONDA is incoherent and infuriating, with frequent flashes of brilliance.

Orla Gartland's candid, colourful mission in self-discovery is one of the most engaging Irish debuts of 2021.

Jack Antonoff returns to his indie roots with an entertaining Springsteen cosplay on Bleachers' third album.

Tyler's sixth album contains a multitude of the elements that have made him such a fascinating artist since day one.

The charming chaos of SOUR convincingly justifies Olivia Rodrigo's meteoric rise to superstardom.

It's impossible not to be won over by the infectious energy and thrilling fun of Weezer's fifteenth album.

Marie Ulven has a potentially great album in her future, but this is not it.

David Balfe's debut is a raw, powerful memoir that heralds the arrival of an essential new artist in Irish music.

Taylor Swift lovingly crafts a stunning time capsule back to her 2008 country pop classic.

Del Rey's seventh record is a neo-folk comedown that blissfully exists in the afterglow of NFR!'s dazzling high.

The eighth album from the American rockers is an inoffensive, unremarkable reminder that Kings of Leon still exist.

Baker safely expands her sound with mixed results on an underwhelming third album.

Black Country boldly introduce themselves with a restless, relentlessly creative debut.

Tamara Lindeman creates her masterpiece on The Weather Station's revolutionary fifth album.

The legendary alternative rockers turn back the clock on their best album in decades.

The Foos are back, and they are blander than ever.

A hedonistic hybrid of lo-fi, punk, jazz and country, Welfare Jazz is a refreshingly weird way to kick off the year in music.

shame return as one of the most hyped bands of the 10s post-punk revival, and (mostly) deliver on their promise.