New album: The fierce, rage-filled Bristol post-punk band’s fifth album has an unfamiliar, far more tender but wider selection of sounds, this dynamic range of love songs intriguingly experimental, less shouty, more melodious
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New album: The Canadian alt-rockers return with their sixth LP - one filled with almost messianic singalong stadium anthems and also quieter intimacy, perhaps not quite at the peak of their first three, but still a return to past form
Read moreNew albums: Porridge Radio, CocoRosie, Ultraísta, Nadia Reid, JFDR, Maria McKee, Yumi Zouma, Honey Cutt, The Wants, The Boomtown Rats
A big, broad week of releases includes a mix of new and old artists, from the passionate female artists Porridge Radio, Nadia Reid and JFDR, the return of Nigel Godrich’s electronica project, to veterans Maria McKee and the Boomtown Rats
Read moreNew albums: Thom Yorke, The Black Keys, The Tallest Man On Earth, Tunng, Molly, House and Land, Body Type, 75 Dollar Bill, Kim Petras
The latest roundup includes the Radiohead frontman’s collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, a return for The Black Keys, beautiful heights by The Tallest Man On Earth, plus a variety of indie, pop and mostly folk in many forms
Read moreNew album releases for week beginning 29 May 2017
Humorous experimentation by alt-J, Roger Waters hitting prime Pink Floyd form, a geographical concept by Saint Etienne, Marika Hacker and Benjamin Booker make up this week's selection
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