Yours
by Alex Pester

Album Rating: 69.34
(624.1/9)

Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – Yours

01.01.26

A haunted hum of home-recorded heartbreak, Yours drifts like a dinghy in a downpour. There’s a casual, creeping charm — cosy, contemplative folk-pop that fidgets between faint melodies and fleeting misgivings. It’s pleasant enough, but often it feels like wandering through a fog of forgotten thoughts, where hooks hover just out of reach and the familiar becomes faintly frightening.

The album skulks with lo-fi humour and self-aware sorrow: gentle murmurs about coffee, tea, and tender tremors rub against ragged riffs, making you wonder if Pester’s laptop was quietly crying in the corner. Listening drifts you to a strange mental mooring: imagining judge’s wigs bobbing on a black sea while you float uncharged, unjudged, with nothing but chicken entrails for tea and ghostly echoes gnawing at your cerebellum. At its best, Yours hugs you with a hollow warmth; at its worst, it’s background balm for brooding over bad decisions on a rainy Tuesday.

1. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 70.0
2. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 70.1
3. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 69.7
4. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 67.3
5. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 67.1
6. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 78.4
7. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 65.6
8. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 69.8
9. Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 66.1

Ranked in order of preference:

* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 78.4
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 70.1
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 70.0
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 69.8
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 69.7
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 67.3
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 67.1
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 66.1
* Alex Pester (Yours – UK – Jan 26) – 65.6