Favourite albums of 2022: Welcome to the first part of a selection for this year, many of which continue to come to terms with pandemic, climate change and other current issues but also show how music can continue to innovate, surprise and entertain
Read moreBeach House: Once Twice Melody
New album: A fabulous double LP 18-track return by the Baltimore duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of dreamy, serene electro-pop, with a suddenly broadened scope of psychedelia and folk rock, gradually and now fully released across four chapters
Read moreNew albums: Arctic Monkeys, La Luz, Beach House, Jess Williamson, Wajatta, Simian Mobile Disco, The Magic Numbers
The Sheffield band return after four years with a very sixties sound, plus Jess Williamson’s acoustic philosophy, La Luz and a variety of psyche pop, dance and electronica from either sides of the Atlantic
Read moreNew album releases: Beach House, Penguin Cafe & Cornelius, Peter Perrett, Jad Fair, Tenniscoats, Floating Points, King Gizzard and more
This week's selection guarantees taking you to new musical places: Beach House, Penguin Cafe & Cornelius, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jad Fair, Tenniscoats & Norman Blake, Floating Points and a reissue from Anne Briggs
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