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Behold: Parsnip’s sophomore album
New album: Fresh, tasty and uplifting, the Melbourne quartet’s sophomore album, and first LP for five years. is a mischievous, playful legume dish finding its roots in lo-fi pop, 60s garage rock and postpunk, packed with echoes of The Kinks, Dandy Warhols, and Belle & Sebastian
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Me Lost Me: RPG
New album: Mesmeric, inventive, experimental folk by Newcastle’s Jayne Dent, who continues to mix tradition and innovation, using vocal loops, electronica and acoustic instruments to an otherworldly, surreal effect
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Niffit’s debut album Fuse
Debut album: Fabulous crash-bang post-punk from the Japanese underground scene in this debut LP by the quartet from Nagoya with stop-start rhythms, sharp, gunslinging guitar riffs and witty, shouty vocals that unleash a ball of electric energy
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Trash Kit arrive at new Horizons
The latest roundup includes more collaborations via Damon Albarn’s African Express, sharp postpunk from Trash Kit, sensitive songwriting from Jesca Hoop, a classical masterpiece, and more from veteran country singer Willie Nelson
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Prince in 1983. Master pianist, among many other things
The towering talent of Prince on piano, rural idylls exploded by Suede and the otherworldly Gazelle Twin, peerless pop from Christine as Chris, and the brilliant Beak> are among this week’s massive roundup
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Anna Calvi - Hunter
Beautiful and blistering new albums from, respectively, the big-voiced singer-guitarist and the Bristol punk rock band, plus a collaboration between Bon Iver and The National and more
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Riding high: Mattiel
A selection of new releases from the past fortnight, including the Atlanta singer, the prolific Californian guitarists, a return to form for the Brooklyn band, and two bright debuts from Australia
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