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Vagabon, aka Laetitia Tamko
This week’s selection includes Foals Part 2 to their acclaimed Part 1, Mark Lanegan going slightly goth, clever pop from Vagabon, extraordinary folk from Lankum, and entrancing electronica from Floating Points and Alice Hubble
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RIchard Dawson
Another roundup of releases includes angry work – raw emotions from Elbow, wonderful perspectives of British pathos from Richard Dawson, and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon sneering superbly in her first solo album
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Angel Olsen
This latest roundup includes a seismic album of emotion turmoil from Angel Olsen, a stripped-back release from Wilco, snappy hip hop from Danny Brown and gritty Brooklyn postpunk from Wives
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Nick Cave returns with the hauntingly beautiful album Ghosteen
The latest album roundup includes a new level of beauty from Nick Cave, a new style for Sturgill Simpson, Afghan eclectic music from Kejaya and Elaha Soroor, and scary scratchy postpunk from Ireland’s Girl Band
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Wonderful soul voice: Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes
This latest roundup includes solo projects by previous performers with Alabama Shakes, Oasis and Wild Beasts, plus postpunk from Roxy Girls and LIFE, and a reunion for the members of Chastity Belt
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Cutting edge? Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Kahn
This latest roundup includes Natasha Kahn’s return with vampiric battiness, Chrissie Hynde’s alternative American Songbook, Iggy Pop intoning poetry, and beautiful work from Mali’s Tinawiren and a Madagascar compilation
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Lana Del Rey and her cover for Norman Fucking Rockwell
The latest selection includes a powerful comeback from The Futureheads, an eccentrically fabulous release from Lana Del Rey, and more perfect postpunk dance from Sacramento and New York’s !!! Chk Chk Chk
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Ezra Furman
A return to humorous pop for Taylor Swift, a dirty dozen of postpunk angst by Ezra Furman, and a hip hop album dedicated to black female icons by Rapsody are among the this week’s selection
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Shura
Cracking returns from Sleater-Kinney, The Murder Capital, Ride, Oh Sees, The Hold Steady, and some Prince-style funk pop from Manchester’s Shura are among this week’s latest roundup of album releases
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New art … Ty Segall
A bumper selection includes a lauded 13th album by the Californian rocker, Mancunian musician Francis Lung, Mabel the daughter of Neneh Cherry, and a project for a new electronica soundtrack to a Buster Keaton film
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From The Flaming Lip’s an immersive art exhibition to accompany their new album, King’s Mouth.
A catchup of recent releases includes The Flaming Lips going concept again with with their best for years, Silver Jews frontman David Berman’s new band, innovations from IDER, Blood Orange and Banks and an all-star Frightened Rabbit tribute
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Trash Kit arrive at new Horizons
The latest roundup includes more collaborations via Damon Albarn’s African Express, sharp postpunk from Trash Kit, sensitive songwriting from Jesca Hoop, a classical masterpiece, and more from veteran country singer Willie Nelson
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From Paul Thomas Anderson’s film to Thom Yorke’s Anima
The latest roundup includes the Radiohead frontman’s collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, a return for The Black Keys, beautiful heights by The Tallest Man On Earth, plus a variety of indie, pop and mostly folk in many forms
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Knockout stuff: black midi
This week’s huge selection includes the buzzy experimentalists black midi, rave pop from Hot Chip, funk from Georgia Anne Mulgrow, beautiful folk by Bedouine, soul from Black Pumas, and original versions from the Prince vault
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Strong likeness: detail from the cover of Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin
A mellowness touches the landscape of this week’s releases, with various artists taking a more reflective, gentler direction, with a beauty from Bill Callahan, a more personal Kate Tempest, a lusher Bruce Springsteen and more
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Which way? Her way. Cate Le Bon
A huge selection and range this week includes the unique and original sound of Welsh artist Cate Le Bon, Australian punk rockers Amyl and the Sniffers, soul, funk and hip from The Internet’s Steve Lacy and cinematic rap from Flying Lotus
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Stock image? From the cover of Slowthai’s Nothing Great About Britain
This week’s new album roundup has something for everyone – soft, soothing, moving gentle experimental and lo-fi, fierce and soulful hip-hop, African dance music, political reggae and cheesy pop
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Clinic: summoning wonderfully woozy images of 1970s showbiz
Wonderfully otherworldly and woozy work is a theme this week, especially from Liverpool’s fabulous Clinic and choral groundbreaking brilliance from Holly Herndon, alongside a variety of other oddities including Mac Demarco
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Russia’s Kedr Livanskiy
This week’s selection includes an experimental and expansive double album return from Vampire Weekend, Leeds post-punkers Drahla, Russian underground dance queen Kedr Livanskiy and members of REM and Sleater-Kinney
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Deliciously eccentric: Aldous Harding
A bumper selection from the past week includes the beautiful voice of Aldous Harding, superb songwriting from Kevin Morby, The Mountain Goats, Pete Doherty’s latest project and an acoustic rock-out from Rodrigo Y Gabriela
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