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Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
New album: Written in a painful period when Shirley Manson had shattered her hip and was in recovery, this is a powerful, defiant, feisty, punchy eighth LP, but also with some vulnerability, by the Scottish/American rockers
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Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth
New album: A first LP for nearly a decade by the acclaimed London rock band, back after two members have undergone cancer treatment, and with a bold, stylish, more experimental sound inspired by producer David Sitek of TV on the Radio, but still packing plenty of articulate, passionate, defiant, candid punch, especially with singer Skin at their forefront
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Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head
New album: The acclaimed punk, indie-rock and other genre-spanning Chicago-born artist returns with a 10th LP, one of her very best to date – sharply poetic in lyric and melody, delivered with visceral power, themed on different forms of losing control, with emotions variously wild, exciting, and frightening, joined by their wonderful longtime band and here a small string ensemble
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Viagra Boys: viagr aboys
New album: A mischievously rewritten self-title comes with this witty, infectiously catchy, devilishly energised new release by the raucously fun Swedish punk band from Stockholm, one which satirically lampoons the stupidity of day-to-day modern existence
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Anika: Abyss
New album: Moving away from the ambient, dreamy synths of her 2021 album Change, the British German singer-songwriter Anika Henderson’s third LP is wilder, grittier, more post-punk, grungey, and themed around frustration, anger, and confusion with the current world
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Mamalarky: Hex Key
New album: Defying definition other than the label of experimental psych-rock four-piece – the Los Angeles band’s album is an eccentric, quirky set of songs that can’t easily be unlocked with this tool or any other, but still pull you into their enjoyably agile mystery
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Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz
New album: The likeable TV On The Radio frontman, visual artists and LA-based actor releases his first solo LP, an impressively punchy, tender, angry, sharp, intelligent fusion of synth-pop, postpunk and funk, working with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Wilder Zoby – energised in sound, but tinged with thematic grief and loss
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Destroyer: Dan's Boogie
New album: Eccentric, eclectic, frequently flamboyant experimental rock and pop by the the Vancouver multi-instrumentalist Dan Bejar, following 2022’s Labyrinthitis with nine new songs in his inimitable talk-singing style with stream-of-consciousness lyrics and personnas from hustlers to lounge singers
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Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
New album: Wisconsin’s Justin Vernon returns with his fifth album, a sparse, tender, sometimes world-weary, but also often beautiful, distinctive fusion of folk, indie, R&B, soul, country, and a dash of soft rock, all wrapped in celebration of the salmon pink - “the colour of life”
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious
New album: Thunderous Black Sabbathian doom by the wonderfully entertaining, if deafening, Newcastle Upon Tyne heavy rockers with their fifth album, one which captures dark, uncertain times shaped by neoliberism, an exorcism of anxiety by frontman and lyricist Mark Baty, and a guest appearance by Run The Jewels rapper EL-P
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The Waterboys: Life, Death And Dennis Hopper
New album: A sprawling, lengthy, pseudo-beatnik rock-country release by the British band fronted by Mike Scott, here celebrating the life of the charismatic, often misunderstand hell-raising Hollywood icon, spanning multiple genres, particularly Americana, with a spread of guests including Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle and Fiona Apple
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The Nightingales: The Awful Truth
New album: With sharp turns of phrase and pace, the legendary Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with meatily rich riffs and rhythms, and a collection of wittily ironic songs on social injustice and current affairs like a musical news broadcast
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Bria Salmena: Big Dog
New album: A striking, stylish debut by the Toronto artist, also co-written and co-produced with Duncan Hay Jennings, the frontwoman of Canadian post-punk outfit FRIGS delivers a mix of dark, deep, smoky-voiced pop, crafted krautrock, shimmery shoegaze, and goth-electronica
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