This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
Read moreNew albums: Insecure Men, The Orielles, Ought, Screaming Females, Superchunk, FRIGS
Indie and postpunk are very much in evidence this week, alongside Saul from Fat White Family's new project and Montreal's Ought, female voices and songwriting talent shine out
Read moreSexuality, seduction and salutations: favourite albums of 2017 – part 2
St Vincent to Queens of the Stone Age, Marika Hackman to Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes to the Mountain Goats, this second part of our readers' favourite albums throws up lots of questions over the self and others
Read moreNew albums: Morrissey, The Moonlandingz, Karl Blau, Mavis Staples, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Brimful with brilliant lyrics, a scattering of controversy but also great tunes, Moz's first since 2014, plus Saul and co with an EP, plus the great Mavis, Karl Blau and Serge's daughter continues to make her mark
Read moreNew album releases for week beginning 20 March 2017
This week's releases are a fabulously noisy blast off, featuring the Moonlandingz, a long-awaited return for Jesus & Mary Chain, plus Johnny Flynn and PINS featuring Iggy Pop
Read moreNew album releases for week beginning 2 January 2017
Brian Eno opens 2017's album releases with some thinking time, alongside new offerings from C Duncan, You Me At Six, The Moonlandingz, and Sundara Karma
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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