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Jordan Patterson: The Hermit
New album: A gorgeous, wonderfully warm, passionate, genuine, fresh, unusually voiced, tender and intimate debut of folk- and acoustic pop by the hugely talented 20-year-old North Carolina-born and LA-raised singer-songwriter
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Wednesday: Bleeds
New album: Quintessential, classy southern creek rock and shoegaze sound by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, fronted by singer and lyricist Karly Hartzman, in this sixth and possibly best yet LP packed with rich, meaty grungy guitar tones, and sharp, highly detailed, emotionally potent, narrative lyrics
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Stealing Sheep: GLO (GIrl Life Online)
New album: Always bringing effervescently quirky, original and experimental work, this is an especially vibrant, fizzing, percussive, witty and superb LP – and surely the very best yet by the excellent Liverpool electro-pop trio of Emily Lansley, Luciana Mercer, and Rebecca Hawley
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Shame: Cutthroat
New album: The south Londoners return with a particularly musically polished as well as usually rowdy, raw post-punk fourth LP, angry at all sorts of social and political evils, and experimenting with other musical styles at the skilful hand of acclaimed producer John Congleton
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Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs
New album: After last year’s acclaimed Sadness Sets Me Free, the ex-Super Furry Animals frontman’s ninth solo LP (meaning ‘no problem’) is a fully Welsh language release, his first since 2019’s Pang!, filled with charming, soothing, catchy folk-rock tunes, but with some darker subjects for current times, the title is an ironic twist
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Sydney Minsky Sargeant - Lunga
New album: The Working Men’s Club frontman from Todmorden in West Yorkshire makes his debut solo LP, a melancholy yet beautiful collection of acoustic and gently reflective pastoral, psychedelic songs, with echoes of Elliott Smith, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake
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Baxter Dury - Allbarone
New album: Alongside his usual droll, witty wordsmithery and distinctive dark, deep-voiced spoken delivery, the Londoner and son of Ian also brings a slightly different, more boisterous style of satirical and nihilistic misery with a collection of supremely catchy, danceable numbers in this ninth LP, produced Paul Epworth
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Suede: Antidepressants
New album: Their tenth album over all and fifth since the 2013 reformation, is classic Suede with a post-punk feel by the British rock band, with searing, strong, raw Magazine- and Cure-style guitar riffs by Richard Oakes and dark yet energised and emotive, declamatory lyrics by Brett Anderson
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Modern Nature: The Heat Warps
New album: Following 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, Jack Cooper and his Cambridge-based lo-fi indie-folk band return with another insightful, poetic album, here with glimmers of gentle, offbeat hope as well as melancholy, exploring themes of collectivism, our relationship with the natural world and the weight of consciousness - but with greater directness and purpose
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The Hives Forever Forever The Hives!
New album: Subtlety, for some, is overrated. With another shamelessly, if also ironically self-aggrandising hyperbolic title, the Swedish band return with their classic, full-on, full-fat-fun, witty, explosive, screamingly entertaining catchy, punk and garage rock packed with shouty bangers
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The Beths: Straight Line Was A Lie
New album: The New Zealand quartet fronted by singer-songwriter Elizabeth Stokes return with a fourth LP of particularly strong, warm, cleverly nuanced, poignant indie numbers spanning contradictory pulls of emotion and expanded sounds and production
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Hand Habits: Blue Reminder
New album: Passionate yet controlled, powerful yet quiet, introspective yet expressive, walking a tightrope between hope and a kind of quiet anxiety, New York-born, LA-based Meg Duffy returns with their distinctive, intimate experimental folk-rock-indie, with 12 circumspect, insecure yet intense love songs
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Mac DeMarco: Guitar
New album: Relaxing, smooth, warm, and all at a uniform strolling pace, a soporific, less-is-more lo-fi approach of stripped back guitar, intimate vocals and minimal backing on this sixth LP, all recorded at home by the California-based Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer
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Water From Your Eyes: It's A Beautiful Place
New album: Indie Brooklyn-based duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown unleash a highly original fusion of experimental art-rock, pop, and shoegaze, mixing musical dynamism with the vocally deadpan abstract through thematic portal of otherworldly science fiction
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Black Honey: Soak
New album: Smoky, stylish, horror-dark, simmering, swaggering, searing goth-rock and indie-pop by the Brighton band in a fourth album vocalist Izzy B. Phillips describes as "picking at the layers of messy, romantic, confusing, woozy, beautiful and fucked up things"
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Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak
New album: Named after a tree species native to Northern California, the American singer-songwriter’s landmark 74-minute double LP, and his 11th solo studio release, is one of his finest, packed with tear-jerking, vivid ballads of gentle pace, profundity, beauty and catchy country-folk-rock grooves
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Tuxis Giant: You Won't Remember This
New album: Subtle, clever, sensitive, gently poetic, nuanced alt-country and indie-folk by the Boston/ Brooklyn band led by Matt O’Connor across themes of memory, identity, a gender journey, filled with hidden narratives, wry humour and the beautifully bittersweet
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Ada Lea: When I Paint My Masterpiece
New album: Sharing its title with a Bob Dylan song, this third album of 16 tracks of experimental folk and Americana by the Montreal singer-songwriter aka Alexandra Levy comes with a free-flowing acoustic brush of the imagination, a rich seam of art and literary reference, and lyrics of the dream-like psychedelic with notes of optimism and plainspoken wisdom
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Hayley Williams
Not an album but … Not actually released as an LP conventionally, but as a crop of individual solo tracks accessible via her website, the Paramore American singer’s mass drop singles, if coming in no particular order, still constitutes a coherent, collection of classy, clever indie-pop numbers
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big long sun: whatever (whatever)
New album: A quirkily catchy, lo-fi, psychedelic-funk, dadaist-influenced, wonderfully oddball, original release by the Midlands-born, Brighton-based poet, painter, film-maker and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Broughton
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