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Max Pope: Counting Sheep
Debut album: Smooth, finely crafted, lyrically thoughtful fusions of funk, pop, bossa nova, blues, jazz and rock with a cleverly summer, lazy understated feel by the 27-year-old singer-songwriter from south London and Brighton
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Jack White’s latest solo record – Entering Heaven Alive – his second of 2022
New album: Only three months since his fierce, high-octane LP Fear of The Dawn, the now Nashville-based artist’s second of the year is more of an folk songwriting record, with guitar, piano, some additional strings, with the feel of evening porch rendition, and even harks back to the more acoustic White Stripes numbers
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Black Midi’s Hellfire
New album: With heatwaves and wildfires ablaze globally, there could hardly be a more prescient title or dystopian theme by the London prog-rock-jazz experimentalist, whose third LP is strangely among their most accessible among its lightning riffs and stop-start energy of King Crimson or even Buckethead proportions
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Wu-Lu’s debut album Loggerhead
Debut album: A strikingly alternative and genre-defying release by the south London producer and multi-instrumentalist Miles Romans-Hopcraft with influences and echoes from grunge to grime, trip hop, electronica to jazz, dark 80s Factory Records era, Tricky to DJ Shadow to Slipknot
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Art D’Ecco returns with a fourth album and a new look
New album: A witty title for a follow-up album by the Canadian artist after 2021’s breakthrough third LP, Standard Definition, with further fabulous fusion of 70s glam, 80s post-punk, and perfect original pop blend of Sparks, 80s Bowie and Ezra Furman
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Soccer Mommy’s third album: Sometimes, Forever
New album: Richly textured indie, shoegaze and pop by Nashville’s 25-year-old Sophie Allison, here with her third album that contains the dark, world weary, but also tuneful and uplifting material, given extra depth by producer Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never
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Nova Twins second album, Supernova
New album: After their pre-lockdown debut, Who Are the Girls?, the London duo of lead vocalist and guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South return with a blisteringly exciting hybrid of punk, heavy rock/metal, hip hop, pop and R&B
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Horsegirl
Debut album: Warmly engaging debut of shoegaze from the Chicago indie-rock trio of Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) in this album produced by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth)
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Just Mustard’s second album - Heart Under
New album: Striking, experimental, atmospheric noise music in this second LP by the five-piece band from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, who use traditional rock instruments to create juddery, industrial, and surreal sounds
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Alex Izenberg’s third album I’m Not Here
New album: Mellow, easy-paced and gently decorated with piano and classical strings, this timeless, mid-70s psych-pop-rock is the third from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter who echoes elements of Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and King Crimson
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The Smile trio’s first album
New album: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner join forces in album of vivid, eerie, ghostly beauty, packed with fabulous guitar and bass riffs and rhythms, reminiscent of cinematic work as well as In Rainbows
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Warpaint’s first album since 2016
New album: An alluring, quietly intricate but also beautiful fourth LP by the Los Angeles quartet, whose last was in September 2016, and while the world has churned upside down since, their return is wonderfully welcome
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Sunflower Bean’s third album, Headful of Sugar
New album: The smart New York indie-rock trio return with their third album after 2018’s acclaimed LP Twentytwo In Blue with a diverse set of new sounds and songs created mainly in a home studio over lockdown and perhaps their most innovative yet
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Arcade Fire return with their sixth album
New album: The Canadian alt-rockers return with their sixth LP - one filled with almost messianic singalong stadium anthems and also quieter intimacy, perhaps not quite at the peak of their first three, but still a return to past form
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Melody Prochet
New album: A beautiful, uplifting third album of life-affirming tranquility by French psych-pop artist Melody Prochet, reflecting her move from Paris to the Alps, and the birth of her daughter, with a host of shimmering, dreamlike sounds
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Toro Y Moi’s seventh album, featuring his fun new Filipino jeepney truck
New album: A wonderfully eclectic, playfully stylish seventh LP by the American singer, songwriter, producer, and graphic designer Chaz Bear, who integrates wonky and squishy funk, pop, psych, rock, and electronica, and his rich Filipino and African-Columbian heritage
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The game is up: Bob Vylan’s rockin’ second album
New album: The second album from the British punk rock / hip-hop duo takes many uncompromising and catchily powerful pops at many aspects of broken scratchyard Britain, taking aim at cost of living, inequality, Tory and other corruption, and even the fast food industry
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Everything Was Beautiful: the ninth Spiritualized album.
New album: Just the ticket – a terrific album of gentle psychedelic beauty by Jason Spaceman aka Pierce, with just seven songs but of inspiring, expansive space krautrock with a swirling orchestra of many instruments combined with an easy, but emotional vocal delivery
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Jack White: Fear of the Dawn
New album: Full-on and high-octane, there’s a frantic buzz-guitar frenzy, urgency and energy to White’s new LP, with songs about difficulty of relationships, but also a me-against-the-world sense of as if the world might indeed end when the night ends
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Red hot in lights: Unlimited Love
New album: The LA rock band have had their ups and down, bu this, a double LP, is their best for some time, largely perhaps due to the return of guitarist John Frusciante, key to their heyday albums, that one captures much of their original chemistry, funk and energy, if at times slightly mellower
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