New album: Sounding just as you might imagine, this pairing of the Oasis singer and Stone Roses guitarist is a well-crafted, cocky Mancunian psychedelic cocktail of classic, stylish, sneer-swagger psychedelia
Read moreNew albums: Brittany Howard, Liam Gallagher, Hiss Golden Messenger, Thurston Moore, Roxy Girls, LIFE, Andrew Combs, Chastity Belt, One True Painting, Joe Armon–Jones, Ebony Steel Band
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
Read moreDrunk, dark and humorous: favourite albums of 2017 – part 1
Father John Misty to Randy Newman, Thundercat to Sleaford Mods, Richard Dawson to DUDS, Björk to Lorde – who is on the first part of this week's reader-voted list, and what is the running theme?
Read moreNew albums: Björk, Noel Gallagher, Bdy_Prts, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, plus Neil Young, Richard Hell
The queen of Icelandic innovation releases a more upbeat album than her heartbreaking last, Noel's Birds are Flying High, Bdy_Prts, Sharon Jones and two Black Friday vinyl special reissues
Read moreNew albums: Liam Gallagher, Kamasi Washington, Pale Seas, DUDS, Marilyn Manson, Benjamin Clementine, Gregg Allman
This week's selection picks out the younger Gallagher, the jazz musician, the rhythmic Mancunians, a great British guitar band, the US country singer, the former Mercury winner and the inimitable goth metal rocker
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