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DjRUM: Under Tangled Silence
New album: An enthralling, vivid instrumental LP by the London DJ and multi-instrumentalist Felix Manuel who combines electronica with piano, harp, mbira, and percussion with added cello, evolving from the mellow into the frenetic in a musical journey created over several years.
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Lucius
New album: Strong, inspiring, back-to-roots, catchy original, dynamic, lush, shimmering indie pop by the Los Angeles quartet of Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig, Dan Molad and Peter Lalish who with this new release return to their original, fresh method of writing and recording together bringing beautiful melody and nuanced, candid lyrics
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McLusky: The World Is Still Here And So Are We – their first LP for over two decades
New album: A very welcome smash-and-grab return of rapier wit and voluminous, muscular, sinewy sound by the legendary cult post-hardcore Cardiff/Newcastle/Bristol trio of Andrew ‘Falco’ Falcous and co, their first studio LP since 2004’s The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
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Deradoorian: Ready For Heaven
New album: Quirky, creative, clever, eclectic, lo-fi experimental pop by the American singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist and former Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian, with a new LP about the erosion of humanity, and mental struggles in the ongoing degrading age of destructive capitalism
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales
New album: The Radiohead frontman’s latest side project is a collaborative album borne of lockdown with the veteran English electronic musician soundtracked by a 65-minute film of videos created by Jonathan Zawada, with various modern-life and historical social dystopian themes
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Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant
New album: A musically strong seventh studio LP by the acclaimed Montreal band, perhaps in part because it is more sensitive and subdued than the 2022’s full-on We, with lyrics that appear ambiguous, cautious and cathartic in the shadow and aftermath of frontman Win Butler’s sexual misconduct allegations scandal
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Maria Somerville
New album: This wonderfully absorbing, otherworldly second album from the Irish musician from Connemara in Galway, is a fusion awash with slow, gentle, misty shoegaze and folk, and rewards multiple listens with its many sonic textures and atmospheric layers in what feels like expansive celebration of solitude
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Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars
New album: This first album in five years by the band fronted by Virginia singer and songwriter Will Toledo is a flamboyant, grandiose concept piece, a galloping, epic, theatrical, dynamic, multifarious rock opera inspired by the likes of The Who’s Tommy, but set in a fictional Parnassus University campus, each song representing a character and perspective in the story
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Sextile: Yes, Please.
New album: A fun, full-throttle amphetamine-inducing and enhancing LP of pumping, electrifying energy by the post-punk-electronica-dance-rock Los Angeles duo of Brady Keehn and Melissa Scadutom, described as “a vulnerable record that bares its soul as much as it revels in excess”
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Model/Actriz: Pirouette
New album: Following 2023’s Dogsbody, a second LP of strikingly innovative experimental, staccato, percussive post-punk by one of the most exciting bands around – the Brookyn-based quartet of vocalist Cole Haden, guitarist Jack Wetmore, bassist Aaron Shapiro, and drummer Ruben Radlauer
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Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist
New album: Named after a perfume created in 1995 - not merely expressing that of the flower but a milky fog, it also describes a LP of ghostly, fragile, fragrant beauty by the Norwegian musician and novelist work scattered with field recordings and tricks of memory
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Femi Kuti: Journey Through Life
New album: The son of the the legend Fela Kuti continues is own legacy, now aged 62, with another vibrant release, and his first self-produced, of stirring, superbly performed afrobeat, positive life philosophy, social justice campaigns, and critiques of Nigerian politics and corruption.
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Zoé Basha: Gamble
New album: A sparkling, delightful, charming, polished and witty self-released debut by the Dublin-based French-American singer and guitarist who mixes folk, country, jazz, blues, French chanson and Appalachian with crisply performed covers and originals
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BRONCHO: Natural Pleasure
New album: The Oklahoma-based alt-rockers return more than six years since their last LP, Bad Behavior, with a fifth LP of finely crafted songs of a distinctively warm, gentle sound, textured guitar layers and Ryan Lindsey’s unusual, high, understated, oddly soothing voice
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Prima Queen: The Prize
New album: A playful, bright, shimmering, witty indie-pop debut LP by the transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, who, following a series of strong singles and EPs, present a variety of clever, nuanced, vivid songs about all kinds of difficult and dysfunctional relationships and self-deprecatory insecurity
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Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto: Electric War
New album: Sharp, stylish, bluesy, 60s garage rock and psychedelia by the British power trio, of Barrie Cadogan and Lewis Wharton, best known for the theme from Better Call Saul, teaming up with acclaimed producer and drummer of The Heliocentrics
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Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo
New album: A remarkable release of experimental p-funk jazz, soul and pop by the British singer and multi-instrumentalist, exploring the ups and downs of her neuro-divergence (autism and ADHD), and playing, writing and producing everything entirely on her own in her south London back-bedroom home studio
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The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required
New album: Seven years since their last LP together, and many different projects in the meantime, Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi and Eccentronic Research Council’s Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan return with their clever, witty electro-dance satire on a dystopian world, with guests including Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter and actor Ewen Bremner
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Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman
New album: Rotherham’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor returns for a third LP of empowering therapy-themed full-on gospel harmonies and dance music styles with lyrics that are earthily honest, filthy, sweary, humorously emotional, philosophical and entertaining
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Rebekka Karijord: The Bell Tower, out on Bella Union
New album: This extraordinary work, a fusion of experimental folk and classical, is a one of rare and exquisite beauty by the Stockholm-based acclaimed Norwegian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, creating sounds from the human voice alone into a powerful, delicate, poetic melancholy, mother-perspective ode to the peril of our planet in the age of the Anthropocene
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