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Yard Act: Where's My Utopia?
New album: With continuing appeal, the experimental post-punk Leeds quartet return with their second LP, with highly entertaining, broadened musical scope, frontman James Smith’s agile, candid, conversational wit musing on the ironies of success, the music business, resultant guilt, climate change, and titular worries about the future
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Turning of the seasons: Complete Mountain Almanac
New album: A uniquely beautiful, complex, layered project of 12 monthly releases created by Stockholm-based singer/songwriter Rebekka Karijord and the poet, artist and dancer Jessica Dessner, who also brings her younger brothers Aaron and Bryce of The National
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Jake Blount
New album: After his acclaimed 2020 solo debut Spider Tales, the American bluegrass fiddler, banjo player, Afrofuturist and historian returns with a starkly beautiful, atmospheric album drawing on old spiritual numbers and set in a climate-changed, apocalyptic world
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Rolling Blackouts C.F.’s third album: Endless Rooms
New album: Sprightly, fresh, wistful and reflective guitar-rich indie by the Melbourne band in this LP put together in stolen moments in between 2020 lockdowns and wildfires at a mud-brick house in the bush capturing the spirit of the lakeside location punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind
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Solar Power is Lorde’s third LP
New album: New Zealand’s Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor returns with a far mellower LP than her previous mega-selling Pure Heroine and Melodrama, concentrating on simpler pleasures - relaxing and escaping the public glare though not doing much with any eco theme
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Sounds of an approaching apocalyse - Gary Numan’s Intruder
Album review: With his trademark sci-fi dystopian sound, the electro-pop veteran, who has rekindled his career of late, returns with doom-laden concept album about climate change seen from the point of view of Earth itself
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A cri de coeur on climate change: Gojira’s new album, Fortitude
Album review: Metal may not be to everyone’s taste, but there’s no denying the songwriting and musicianship of this seventh album by the French quartet which is a powerful, engaging and stormy cri de coeur about climate change
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Water pair: Sparks are playing it cool by the pool.
The Mael brothers continue to surprise and delight, some unheard 70s archive from Neil Young, Tori Amos takes on the alt-right and climate change, plus The National, Alvvays and The Waterboys colour this week's selection
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