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Shana Cleveland: Manzanita
New album: A sublime third solo LP by the singer and La Luz co-founder, a beautiful selection of Californian-style folk, named after a native evergreen tree with medicinal properties, and awash with pristine acoustic guitar and her mesmeric voice
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La Luz, self-titled, is the band’s fourth studio album
New album: LA’s Shana Cleveland and co return with a fourth, self-titled LP of wonderful, atmospheric numbers of gentle, surf-noir folk-psychedelia of tremendous melody, rich vocal harmony, and guitar and sitar-pedal sheen
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Lala Lala’s I Want The Door To Open
New album: Largely languid, mellow sounding and alluring indie from the London-raised Chicago-based songwriter Lillie West in her third studio album exploration of persona and presence with experimental textures of voice and instruments
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FKA twigs
The second part of this year’s LP favourites again includes several superb female artists. Also check out the first part published yesterday
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Wonderful soul voice: Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes
This latest roundup includes solo projects by previous performers with Alabama Shakes, Oasis and Wild Beasts, plus postpunk from Roxy Girls and LIFE, and a reunion for the members of Chastity Belt
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Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood
Exquisite vocals and electronica and female vocalists decorate this weeks list, from Weyes Blood to Jess Ribeiro and Shana Cleveland, plus sharp postpunk from Pozi, beautiful songs by Ratso with Nick Cave, and rare, early Bowie
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Arctic Monkeys. Boys to men.
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
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