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Dot Allison: Conciousology
New album: With easily the most beautiful and delicate LP of the week, the Scottish singer-multi-instrumentalist returns with a gorgeous blend of psych-folk, her gentle voice poetically capturing nature’s patterns with threads of orchestral strings, electronica, and some guest guitar by Ride’s Andy Bell
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The Clientele: I Am Not There Anymore
New album: More than three decades in, and after a six-year gap, the London now trio return with a fabulously eclectic, esoteric ninth 19-track LP mixing psychedelia, Eastern classical music, poetic, jangly, jaunty indie pop, and more
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland: The Ones Ahead
New album: Wonderfully tender, beautiful uplifting first album for 20 years by the golden-voiced 78-year-old American veteran transgender male singer in a stirring release of African rhythms, soul, gospel, gentle piano pop and cinematic classical
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Madeline Kenney: A New Reality Mind
New album: Sensitive, experimental, dreamy, highly original electro-pop in this fourth album by the Oakland artist, songs reflecting on mindset after from splitting with her partner, and a theme of perceiving reality, referencing John Berger’s book Ways of Seeing
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HENGE return to Earth with their third LP
New album: A third album of ingeniously brilliant keyboard blips ‘n’ beats, squelchy, catchy, funky fun from the electro-psych-pop space alien band (actually from Manchester) packed with entertaining tunes about robots, the climate crisis and more
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Guided By Voices: Welshpool Frillies
New album: Dayton Ohio’s prolific Robert Pollard and band return with another in a long line of albums of muscular fuzz-guitar rock decorated with ear-catching, oddball, original lyrics and powerful riffs
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Mokoomba: Tusona - Tracings In The Sand
New album: A gloriously uplifting new release by the collective from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, joined by the horns of Ghanaian highlife band Santrofi in celebratory songs inspired by Makisi dance gatherings and sung in various languages - Tonga, Luvale, Shona, Nyanja and even Lingala
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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: City of Gold
New album: Following last year’s breakthrough album Crooked Tree, brilliantly uplifting bluegrass and country by the Nashville singer-songwriter renowned for her finger-picking, again co-written by Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show and co-produced by dobro veteran Jerry Douglas
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Always clouds on the horizon: Blur’s ninth album, The Ballad of Darren
New album: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and co return with their ninth LP, and first since 2015, a reflective, melancholy mostly slow-paced release of vivid, wistful beauty
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Being Dead: When Horses Would Run
New album: Mischievous fun by the Austin, Texas experimental indie and art-rock band of songwriters Falcon Bitch and Gumball, packed with fantasy, satirical settings in this debut full LP
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Palehound: Eye On The Bat
New album: Brooklyn’s El Kempner returns with a new selection of passionate, intelligent, punchy indie-folk with songs about illusions shattering, the before and after, raw nerves and propulsive instrumentation
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Sam Burton: Dear Departed
New album: Very much in the mould of late 60s/ early-70s Harry Nilsson or Glen Campbell – serene, gentle, melancholy, sometimes sublime songs in this second LP by the Utah-born, LA-based singer-songwriter
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Snõõper: Super Snõõper (Third Man Records)
New album: With shades of early-80s Delta 5, a fabulously entertaining, sprightly, short ’n’ sharp, stop-start punk, post-punk full debut LP by the Nashville band who combine a fun DIY girl garage-rock interspersed with electronic beeps and random conversations
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Julie Byrne: The Greater Wings
New album: Gorgeously delicate, serene, thoughtful, intimate acoustic folk by the ethereal, breathy-voiced New York singer-songwriter, her third studio album and first for six years capturing a variety of moods and emotions across times of isolation and change
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Little Dragon: Slugs of Love
New album: An inventive, very eclectic, enjoyably experimental seventh studio album by the Gothenburg quartet, mixing electronica, soul, pop, hip-hop and R&B with guests including Blur’s Damon Albarn and East Atlanta rapper JID
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Various: The Endless Coloured Ways - The Songs of Nick Drake
New album: An enthralling collection of 23 cover versions of classic numbers by the legendary British folk singer who tragically died in 1974, featuring diverse artists including Fontaine’s D.C., Emeli Sandé, Aldous Harding, Guy Garvey and John Grant
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Collapsed Lung’s nod to the old London Weekend TV logo
New album: Nearly three decades in, packed with slick, sharp, flowing humorous lyrics, catchy beats and rockin’ riffs, the British hip-hop band best known for the hit song Eat My Goal return with their first LP since 2018’s Zero Hours Band
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Me Lost Me: RPG
New album: Mesmeric, inventive, experimental folk by Newcastle’s Jayne Dent, who continues to mix tradition and innovation, using vocal loops, electronica and acoustic instruments to an otherworldly, surreal effect
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Knower’s Genevieve Artadi and Louis Cole
New album: A third jazz-funk tour de force LP of outstanding musicianship, infinite energy, humour and invention by the LA duo of singer Genevieve Artadi and genius drummer and multi-instrumentalist Louis Cole joined by a host of brilliant players
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Gabriels: Angels & Queens Part 2
New album: A follow-up to and completion of the last year’s shorter Part 1 album with six new songs, this is landmark release of superb soul-gospel by US-UK trio of golden singer Jacob Lusk and instrumentalists Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian
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