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Liv.e: Girl In The Half Pearl
New album: A dizzyingly indefinable and innovative debut by the Dallas-born singer-songwriter Olivia Williams, mixing experimental R&B, gospel, neo-soul, spoken word, electronica, cosmic jazz, and pop
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Quasi return, with Breaking the Balls of History
New album: A welcome return with clever, punchy, alternative indie and a wry look at the world, from the Portland, Oregon indie duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, in their 10th album, and first for a decade
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Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World
New album: Nearly four decades into the New Jersey trio’s prolific career, Ira Kaplan Georgia Hubley and James McNew’s 17th studio LP one of their best, mesmeric, krautrock-inspired, semi-improvisational, shoegaze indie
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M(h)aol: Attachment Styles
Debut album: They’ve been pacing around with singles for several years, but this debut by the Dublin post-punks (pronounced male) is powerful, funny, dark, feminist, funny and dirty, filled with fabulous thumps, bangs, crashes, guitar clangs and killer lyrics
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The Go! Team: Get Up Sequences Part Two
New album: Ian Parton’s Brighton band return, in their follow-up to 2021’s Part One, with a truly joyous, upbeat and vibrantly colourful, wham-bam wonder tour of worldwide cultural vocals and samples ranging from Benin to Japan, France, India, Texas and Detroit
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Hamish Hawk: Angel Numbers
New album: After the lauded Heavy Elevator LP, further fabulously crafted, numbers by the witty, articulate, smooth-voiced Edinburgh singer-songwriter, with a set of sensitive, moving and gently humorous songs about patterns of destiny and the future
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Young Fathers’s fourth album, Heavy Heavy
New album: There’s nothing quite like them. Joyous energy and endless invention, the Edinburgh trio’s fourth LP is filled with soulful, emotional vocals, fabulous oddball, dynamic beats and sound textures, and already an album of the year contender
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Perfect texture blend: Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall
New album: Fantastically original, eclectic and melodious eponymous debut by the duo of Blur’s Graham Coxon, and ex-Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall, packed with an indefinable mix of indie pop, folk, post-punk and much more in a free-flowing tapestry of sounds and textures
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Jadu Heart’s third album Derealised
New album: A third album from the British duo of Diva-Sachy Jeffrey and Alex Headford brings an eclectic, innovative mix of indie and electronic and dream pop, with a strong flavour of shoegazey My Bloody Valentine
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L.T. Leif: Come Back To Me, But Lightly
New album: Slow, measured, pared-back and beautiful, this creative concoction of cosmic country and folk is a gorgeous gem by the Glasgow-based Canadian artist
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Turning of the seasons: Complete Mountain Almanac
New album: A uniquely beautiful, complex, layered project of 12 monthly releases created by Stockholm-based singer/songwriter Rebekka Karijord and the poet, artist and dancer Jessica Dessner, who also brings her younger brothers Aaron and Bryce of The National
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Lawrence has rebranded Go-Kart Mozart into Mozart Estate with this shopping list of new numbers
New album: The legendary Lawrence of Felt, Denim, and more recently Go-Kart Mozart, rebrands the latter with a new name and trolley-load of perky, cheeky, catchy sometimes pub-style electro-pop tunes roughly themed around the joys and mini-tragedies of retail therapy
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Tune in: Dave Rowntree’s Radio Songs
New album: A thematic, intimate, clever, thoughtful debut solo LP by the amusing and affable Blur drummer, decorated with shimmering synth sounds, sampled radio sounds, gentle percussion and gentle but arresting vocals
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Guided By Voices: La La Land
New album: Following 2022’s Tremblers And Goggles By Rank and compilation Scalping The Guru, another strong new LP of strident, passionate, original alternative rock by the Ohio indie band decorated by the utterly unpredictable lyricism of frontman Robert Pollard
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Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades
New album: A wonderfully original, vibrant collaboration between the Rotherham electronica experimentalist/producer and the Acholi fiddle player, inspired by a residency in Kampala and building on 2020’s album File Under UK Metaplasm
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The Murder Capital’s second album Gigi's Recovery
New album: Passionate, visceral and powerful, the new Dublin band’s follow-up to 2019’s When I Have Fears builds on their promise, aswirl with stark emotion, packed with strong perspectives and carefully hewn sounds in a journey of introspection, self-analysis and defiance
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John Cale: Mercy
New album: Slow, ghostly, challenging, droning, uniquely experimental, this is the 80-year-old former Velvet Underground member’s first original album since 2012, now with guests including Weyes Blood, Sylvan Esso, Fat White Family and Animal Collective
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Rozi Plain: Prize
New album: Beautifully textured, gentle, sensitive, understated, mysterious, stripped-back alternative folk by the English singer-songwriter, also joined by colleagues from This Is The Kit, saxophonist Alabaster DePlume and harpist Serafina Steer
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The Nightingales: The Last Laugh
New album: The very best ‘til last for 2022? Quite possibly, with this absolute belter from Robert Lloyd, Fliss Kitson and co, this October release packed with superbly Beefheart-esque, stompy, infinite wit, riff and rhythm change
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ALASKALASKA: Still Life
New album: Released in October, some tastily original, intelligent, minimalist, atmospheric experimental electro-pop by the south London duo of Lucinda Duarte-Holman and Fraser Rieley in this sophomore LP to follow up 2019’s The Dots
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