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Dopamine Chamber finds Fontaines moving even further away from the live guitar emphasis of their earlier work – embracing new styles in ways that are, by turns, liberating and devastating
Pick You Up finds a veteran songwriter taking stock of the world, and asking what music can still do within it, to powerful effec
Throughout Bass Persuades, a darker, industrial Miley is fighting to be heard. The album is at its best when she gives that side room to breathe
The Gem finds the singer refining what she does best, while pushing her sound into more daring territory, with a blend of restless energy and bittersweet lyricism
Irish noiseniks deliver instant classic
There are a brace of dance bangers in ‘True Colours’ and ‘Crypto’, while the centrepiece of the album is the suite comprised of ‘Secrets Pt. 1’ and ‘Secrets Pt. 2’
No fear of the Bunnymen trading on past glories; they’ve still got plenty in the tan
Beatrice Laus – alongside a sprawling collection of collaborators – delivers a musical reflection on loneliness and uncertainty
Recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium and Blackbird Studios, it expands their familiar collision of rock, gospel, blues and soul with flute, harpsichord, sitar and densely layered vocal arrangements
Over Malcolm Middleton's fertile arrangements, Moffat's poetry offers the reassurance that good people still exist in the world. Print edition only
Behind Flowers, Nashville royalty David Rawlings, Bruce Bouton and Charlie McCoy lend the whole thing grit, swing and old-school authority
Leeds post-punk band hit their groove on third album
It's the duality of darkness and light that makes Lost Weekend so good
Across a lean 30 minutes, the songs feel like diary entries, laced with biting humour and self-awareness as she dissects the culture she helped define
