Rock / Pop

Favourite Worst Nightmare hardly abandons the pleasures of their debut What People Say I Am but instead frantically expands upon them. They still have a kinetic nervous energy, but this isn't a quartet that bashes out simply three-chord rock & roll.

If Arctic Monkeys launched a tentative retreat on Suck It & See, their first effort after being seduced by Josh Homme, the group once again forge ahead into bold new territory on AM, their fifth album.

With 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness', Olsen, fully reaches the depth of expression hinted at on her last album while still lingering in the restlessness and searching feelings that make all of her work so captivating.