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Marie Davidson: City Of Clowns
New album: The stylish Canadian from Montreal returns with a sixth LP of clever, catchy, droll-delivery dance music and electro-synth-pop, joined by Belgian electronic legends Soulwax aka David and Stephen Dewaele, and Pierre Guerineau
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Doves: Constellations For The Lonely
New album: A glorious sixth LP by the Manchester indie band, weathering many ups and downs, including ongoing mental health issues for lead vocalist and bass player Jimi Goodwin who is unable to tour, but despite that, summoning a powerful, dynamic, passionate work of darkness and light, and one of the best in the 25 years since their debut, Lost Souls
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IDER: Late To The World
New album: Sharp, smart, candid and sometimes lyrically caustic synth pop by the London duo Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville in this third LP that highlights many challenges of life and femininity from eating disorder to abortion rights, dodgy relationships to personal insecurity and leaving the past behind
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Albertine Sarges: Girl Missing
New album: Joy, vulnerability, wistful longing, cutting melancholy, sisterhood, resilience, and healing from grief all burst forth in this uplifting new LP by the ever inventive, eccentric, eclectic Berlin-based singer-songwriter with a distinctive experimental indie-pop here includes organs, flutes, strings and layered vocals
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Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream
New album: The idiosyncratic Idaho songwriter and producer Trevor Powers’s latest LP is a vividly cinematic, darkly humorous, dream-like release inspired by a 2023 discovery of VHS home movies documenting his childhood, and lying boxed in the basement of his parents’ house
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Sam Fender: People Watching
New album: The likeable, powerful tenor-voiced, 30-year-old singer-songwriter from North Shields has hit mainstream success, especially with his last LP, Seventeen Going Under (2021), and while this continues with a sometimes Springsteen-like style, there’s a lyrical melancholy colouring this third LP, on trappings of fame, music industry, and tales of tragedy within his northern working-class roots
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Saya Gray: SAYA
New album: Ingeniously original, eclectic debut alternative folk-pop debut by the Toronto singer-songwriter and producer, following their QWERTY and QWERTY II EPs, weaving a mix of skilfully played guitar sounds, including country pedal steel and acoustic with electronica into a beautiful vocal landscape of offbeat heartbreak love songs
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The Murder Capital: Blindness
New album: A stormy, passionate, viscerally powerful and intense by the indie-rock Dublin band of James McGovern, Damien Tuit, Cathal Roper, Gabriel Paschal Blake, Diarmuid Brennan fired up by personal and political issues, created with renewed focus, and produced by John Congleton
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Bartees Strange: Horror
New album: A diversely eclectic, genre-hopping, powerfully emotional LP of soul, funk, hip-hop, rock, indie, country, house and pop by the Washington DC-based artist, produced by Jack Antonoff, with songs facing fears as a young young, queer, black person in rural America, and inspired by the likes of Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young
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The Velveteers: A Million Knives
New album: Blistering second album of glamorous rock by the trio from Boulder, Colorado, fronted by singer-songwriter Demi Demitro, and produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, with powerful numbers about heartbreak, but also the volatile truth of being an artist in the music industry while still clinging to the teenage joy of instruments
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Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking
New album: The veteran Welsh rockers’ 15th studio album delivers everything you’d expect - direct lyrics on big social and political themes, huge, surging melodies and powerful choruses, variously wistful, playful, angry, sincere, and even includes a slanted dedication to the Smiths with one of their strongest for years
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John Glacier: Like A Ribbon
New album: The Hackney, east London producer-vocalist and model, who presents a persona as evasive, oddball, deliberately obfuscating “20,000-year old” “alien”, releases an esoteric, at times beguiling debut of offbeat trip-hop, filled with talking, stream-of-consciousness vocals mixed variously with guitar, assorted samples and electronica, also co-produced by Kwes Darko and Flume
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Hifi Sean and David McAlmont: TWILIGHT
New album: Twinned with last summer’s LP DAYLIGHT, the duo of Scottish musician and the English soul singer return with the darkside – an absorbing adventure from dusk to dawn, with evocative, cinematic, experimental, old-school synths and electronica and McAlmont’s extraordinary, wide-ranging voice
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Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On
New album: Minimalistic, pithy, nostalgically twangy, wistful, undersyated indie-folk-pop by the Chicago/New York trio of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece in this second LP with a refreshing sound produced by Cate Le Bon
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Richard Dawson: End of the Middle
New album: Extraordinary songs about ordinary lives by the wonderful Newcastle alternative folk singer-songwriter – poetic, strikingly detailed, touching, warm, gently humorous, melancholy, original and gorgeously profound, bringing beauty to banality, private tragedies and small joys
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Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness
New album: Warm, tender, thoughtfully profound, intelligent, finely crafted indie-folk with Laurel Canyon-era and Americana elements by the now Manchester-based New Zealand singer-songwriter on themes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak
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HONESTY: U R HERE
New album: Moody, dark, atmospheric, cross-genre inventiveness comes aplenty in this debut LP for Partisan Records by the Leeds-based collective who bring a hard-to-define fusion of ambient, restless electronica, shoegaze, goth, abstract industrial, krautrocky momentum, soulful trip-hop and alt-pop
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Helen Ganya: Share Your Care
New album: The Brighton-based Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter’s new LP is inspired by the death of her grandmother in 2021, exploring and celebrating her east-Asian heritage in a gorgeously warm, eclectic collection that includes sounds of the Thai dulcimer.
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Squid: Cowards
New album: Fabulously strange, inventive and and cleverly unsettling third album by the Brighton experimental post-punk, alt-rock quintet with a series of first-person narratives and inner monologues by fictional, disturbing characters - from cult leaders, serial killers, cannibals, sociopaths and arsonists
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Heartworms: Glutton For Punishment
New album: After a series of outstanding singles, the British artist Jojo Orme releases her debut full LP of inventive, goth-tinged post-punk, with echoes of Siouxsie Sioux and PJ Harvey, and produced the the ever inventive Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label
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