SZA holds on tight for #1 with her latest album, SOS, finally available on vinyl!

We welcomed a new Arlo Parks record this week. My Soft Machine is already off to a great start selling to old and new fans alike. We strongly recommend this album that’s bound to end up on lots of year end lists.

The Lemon Twigs don’t squeeze their disparate influences together into single songs but generally alternate between them. Everything Harmony’s opener (“When Winter Comes Around”) and closer (“New to Me”) are acoustic ballads (the latter incorporates some Beach Boys harmonies and a little organ), as are “I Don’t Belong to Me” and “Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life”. Three other songs, “In My Head”, “Ghost Run Free”, and “What You Were Doing”—possibly the best Big Star song since Big Star—deliver winning power pop. The remaining half of the album is awash in commercial 1970s melodicism that ranges from the Bay City Rollers to Rundgren to yacht rock to Pippin. (It’s hard not to hear “Corner of My Eye” as an oblique nod to “Corner of the Sky”). - PopMatters