Otherworldly is recurring theme in this week’s releases, including Thom Yorke’s soundrack to the Suspiria remake, Julia Holter and Soap&Skin, plus pithy postpunk from Pill, and reinterpretations by Ty Segall
Read moreNew albums: John Grant, Connan Mockasin, Elvis Costello, Kurt Vile, Jerry Paper, Anna St Louis, Ambrose Akinmusire, The Aints, Goatman, A Certain Ratio
Elvis Costello triumphantly turns back the clock, John Grant at his bitchy, heartfelt best, and a heap of various laid-back and wonderfully eclectic, oddball records come with likes of Connan Mockasin, Kurt Vile, Jerry Paper and more
Read moreNew albums: Cat Power, The Nightingales, Molly Burch, Phosphorescent, Marie Davidson, Fucked Up, Cypress Hill, Kristin Hersh, The Blinders, Echo & the Bunnymen
Cat Power’s blues-folk to angry techno from Marie Davidson, cross-genre punk from Fucked Up, punchy postpunk by the NIghtingales, to reworked and tracks by Echo and the Bunnymen? This week’s selection offers something for everyone
Read moreNew albums: Villagers, Chic & Nile Rodgers, Amber Arcades, The Joy Formidable, Pigs x 7, Mudhoney, Max Cooper
A beauty from Villagers, an modern update attempt by Nile Rodgers, blistering metal by Pigs x 7, Brexit lament by Amber Arcades, plus The Joy Formidable, Mudhoney and Max Cooper make up this week’s selection
Read moreNew albums: Suede, Prince, Christine and the Queens, Gazelle Twin, Beak>, Dizzee Rascal, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Black Honey, Sauna Youth, Sobrenadar
The towering talent of Prince on piano, rural idylls exploded by Suede and the otherworldly Gazelle Twin, peerless pop from Christine as Chris, and the brilliant Beak> are among this week’s massive roundup
Read moreNew albums: Paul Weller, Sleaford Mods, Orbital, Aphex Twin, Low, The Goon Sax, and various
A gentle album from the Modfather, punchy EPs from Aphex Twin and Sleaford Mods, upbeat indie from The Good Sax, and compilations of 60s and 70s girl groups and Sudanese music make up this week’s selection
Read moreNew albums – Mattiel / Ty Segall & White Fence / Dirty Projectors / Wimps / RVG / Primo! / Body/Head / The Jayhawks
A selection of new releases from the past fortnight, including the Atlanta singer, the prolific Californian guitarists, a return to form for the Brooklyn band, and two bright debuts from Australia
Read moreNew albums: Gorillaz, Florence + The Machine, Kamasi Washington, Nine Inch Nails, The Wave PIctures, Let's Eat Grandma, Gwenifer Raymond, Thee Dagger Debs
A bumper crop of recent and new releases includes Damon Albarn back in 2D, Florence toning down the volume, an industrial political comeback from Nine Inch Nails, and a colossal work by a modern jazz great
Read moreNew albums: Father John Misty, LUMP (Laura Marling / Mike Lindsay), Bodega, Neko Case, Warmduscher, Natalie Prass, Sam Evian, Morcheeba
This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
Read moreNew albums: Courtney Barnett, Parquet Courts, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Wax Chattels, Ryley Walker, Ray LaMontage, TT, Mary Lattimore, James Bay
A bumper crop this week includes sharp lyricists Courtney Barnett and Stephen Malkmus, postpunk greats Parquet Courts, jazz indie from kiwis Wax Chattels, and a solo album by Warpaint’s singer and a lovely harp album
Read moreNew albums: Josh T. Pearson, The Damned, Laura Veirs, Slug, Daniel Avery, Hinds, Wiley, Derek Smalls/Harry Shearer
The Texan returns with more forceful work, The Damned show more than punk, plus comedy rock from Harry Shearer, psych folk from Laura Veirs, Daniel Avery electrionica, Wiley's grime and offbeat indie from Slug and Hinds
Read moreNew albums: Cabbage, The Vaccines, Kacey Musgraves, Czarface & MF DOOM
This week's selection covers political punk form Manchester's Cabbage the return of London rockers Vaccines, gay Nashville icon Kacey Musgraves and wondrous wordplay from MF DOOM and a Wu-Tang Clan friend
Read moreNew albums: The Breeders, Go-Kart Mozart, Superorganism, Suuns, Phobophobes, Gwenno, Jonathan Wilson
Kim Deal and co return with their first for decade, Lawrence pops up with Go-Kart Mozart, plus Superorganism, Suuns, Phobophobes, Gwenno and Jonathan Wilson
Read moreNew albums: Insecure Men, The Orielles, Ought, Screaming Females, Superchunk, FRIGS
Indie and postpunk are very much in evidence this week, alongside Saul from Fat White Family's new project and Montreal's Ought, female voices and songwriting talent shine out
Read moreNew albums: Hookworms, Field Music, BEAK>, Cut Chemist, Hidden Orchestra, and Simple Minds
A new, catchier electronica evolution of the Leeds psych rockers, the Sunderland indie innovators address a turbulent world, and a return for the Glasgow veterans are just three of the six on this week's selection
Read moreSexuality, seduction and salutations: favourite albums of 2017 – part 2
St Vincent to Queens of the Stone Age, Marika Hackman to Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes to the Mountain Goats, this second part of our readers' favourite albums throws up lots of questions over the self and others
Read moreDrunk, dark and humorous: favourite albums of 2017 – part 1
Father John Misty to Randy Newman, Thundercat to Sleaford Mods, Richard Dawson to DUDS, Björk to Lorde – who is on the first part of this week's reader-voted list, and what is the running theme?
Read moreNew albums: Morrissey, The Moonlandingz, Karl Blau, Mavis Staples, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Brimful with brilliant lyrics, a scattering of controversy but also great tunes, Moz's first since 2014, plus Saul and co with an EP, plus the great Mavis, Karl Blau and Serge's daughter continues to make her mark
Read moreNew albums – Lost Horizons, EERA, Angel Olsen, Evanescence, Shed Seven, Quicksand, Spinning Coin, Ian Svenonius/Escape-ism, Paul Weller
A bumper crop this week includes the Bella Union boss and friends, Angel Olsen, Norway's EERA, comebacks for Shed Seven and Quicksand, Evanescence orchestral reworkings, punk electronica from Escape-ism and a single from the Modfather
Read moreNew albums: Bob Dylan, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, Shamir, Autobahn, Fat Boy Slim, Lomond Campbell
Alongside a 13th Dylan Bootleg box set, there's a real mixture of krautrock, psychedelia, rock, pop, pastroral folk and dance music in this week's selections
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