Gorilla vs. Bear — A year after releasing one of the best records of 2017, Yung Edgar quietly drops the hypnotic, sample-oriented demo for OOZ standout, "Sublunary": Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — Beating out Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine, King Krule, and Lily Allen. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wolf Alice's LP beat out other records by other UK acts like Arctic Monkeys, King Krule, Noel Gallagher, and others. Continue reading… more info

DrownedInSound — Eva Mackevic on King Krule's The OOZ more info

Consequence of Sound — Last year's Mercury Prize-nominated The Ooz continues to yield strange, delicious fruit. more info

Stereogum — Last year, Archy Marshall released a new King Krule album, The Ooz , and today he's releasing a music video in partnership with WeTransfer that was directed by his frequent collaborators Michael and Paraic Morrissey. The video is for The Ooz's "Bisc... more info

Consequence of Sound — Wolf Alice, Noel Gallagher, and Lily Allen are also in the running. more info

Stereogum — Every year, a cabal of UK music-business types gets together to figure out which album gets the Mercury Prize. The Prize, probably the most prestigious award of its kind, recognizes what it considers to be the best album of the year by a British or I... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Other nominees include Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Sons of Kemet, Jorja Smith, and more. Continue reading… more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Despite what its title may seem to imply, Ben Lamar Gay’s Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun is not some kind of pastoral manifesto. In fact, you’re not likely to hear an album in 2018 so steamed by big-city humidity. Like King Kr... more info