Debut album: Strikingly innovative electronic and funk full debut by Bedford’s Tyrone Jermaine "TJ" Carter, who has been releasing singles and EPs for over a decade, but here includes guests including Sampha, Little Dragon, Ghetts, Serpentwithfeet, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Charlotte Day Wilson
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New album: Mind-bending, mesmeric and complex but also accessible sixth album of jazz and prog by the band from Toronto, much via improvisation but also with a collaboration by legendary Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai
Read moreCharlotte Day Wilson: ALPHA
New album: This serenely soulful debut by the Toronto singer-songwriter and producer is a slow, sensual, and mature, drawing on elements of gospel, folk, jazz and R&B, but is beautifully minimal and restrained
Read moreNew albums: Childish Gambino, Låpsley, Roger and Brian Eno, Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, Morrissey, Baxter Dury, Jessie Reyez, J Balvin, Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty, Xoros
Among this week’s selection is new experimental hip hop by the artist also known as Donald Glover, singer-songwriter Lapsley, Brian Eno collaborating with brother Roger and another duo of two African jazz greats
Read moreBlonder, stranger, lighter, darker: favourite and fitting albums of 2016 – part 2
From Frank Ocean's Blonde to a fitting sign-off by Leonard Cohen, we complete our two-part list of a total of 50 album releases suggested by readers that reflected the mood and events of the past 12 months
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