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Gentle Sinners: These Actions Cannot Be Undone
New album: An intriguing, innovative new collaborative project by James Graham of The Twilight Sad and Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap culminates in this mysterious, genre-defying, experimental album of oddly poetic numbers
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Kevin Morby’s vivid new album This Is A Photograph
New album: Tender, uplifting, sensitive and moving, the seventh LP by the Texas-born, Kansas-raised singer-songwriter is full of richly vivid lyrics wrapped in strong Americana folk-pop and a vocal delivery that echoes mid-70s Bob Dylan
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Looking back to look forward: Belle and Sebastian’s 10th album
New album: The tenth studio album by the Glasgow folk-pop band is their first for seven years, and the first recorded in their home city since Fold Your Hands Child in 1999, sounding very much their usual wistful, gently melancholy but catchy selves
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Sarah Beth Tomberlin
New album: Gentle, beautiful fragility and vulnerability abounds in this second album by the Brooklyn singer-songwriter, who sings about insecurity, isolation and relationships with great tenderness with minimal instrumentation
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Dana Gavanski’s When It Comes has finally arrived
New album: Gorgeous second folk-pop LP by the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter, decorated with perfectly weighted hooks and measured arrangements, pure of voice and with pace that’s both intricate but minimal, like a ticking clock
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Kathryn Joseph: For You Who Are Wronged
New album: Stark, minimal, ghostly, and extraordinarily powerful, this third album by the Scottish singer-songwriter concentrates unflinchingly on the ripples that emanate around abusive relationships, particularly giving voice to the voiceless
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Kurt Vile pictured with daughters on his new album cover
New album: As laid-back in style as anyone out there, but also strongly personal and filled with vivid lyrical detail, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter’s seventh solo album is deliciously melodious and worth several listens
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Daniel Rossen’s debut solo album
New album: A mesmerically rich, beautifully swirling fusion of acoustic and flamenco guitar, symphonic folk, classic and jazz by by the Grizzly Bear guitarist and vocalist whose voice has the sensitivity, warmth and honest of Elliott Smith, in this wonderful solo debut
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Father John Misty: Chloë and the Next 20th Century
New album: Lavishly orchestrated, marrying the ironic and the romantic, filled with stories and profound lines, Josh Tillman’s theatrical fifth LP is perhaps his finest yet, a fusion of the cinematic, jazz, swing, country, and folk-pop
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Miriam Elhajli’s The Uncertainty of Signs, her second album
New album: A remarkable release of rare beauty traversing genes with the outstanding voice, guitar, other strings and more by the New York-based folk singer, composer, and musicologist richly mixing traditions of her Venezuelan, Moroccan and North American heritage
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I am a rock: Pictish Trail’s Island Family
New album: Johnny Lynch returns with a beautifully eclectic release and an alternative love note to his adopted Hebridean home the Isle of Eigg – psych folk, acoustic pings and crashes mingling with dance electronica in this search for the euphoric in the bucolic wrapped in the eccentric
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Midlake’s fifth album, the first since 2013
New album: Very welcome fifth LP from the Texas folk-rockers after nine-year gap, again with Eric Pulido taking on lead vocals, but a more settled sound than 2013’s Antiphon, and a dedication to the deceased father of keyboardist and flautist Jesse Chandler
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Tamara Lindeman
New album: Nothing can compare to last year’s superbly crafted LP Ignorance, but Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman returns with a still powerful, if more pared-back LP of delicacy and intimacy of voice, piano and minimal orchestration
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Sasami’s Squeeze - appearances may deceive
New album: This second LP by the LA-based American Sasami Ashworth is one of strikingly eclectic genre contrasts of shade and light, from full blast nu-metal and rock, to gorgeous melodies of country-pop and folk, and even a coda of classical music
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Carson McHone’s Still Life
New album: Tremendously high-quality writing and performance by the singer-songwriter from Houston, Texas in this dynamic third album which mixes folk-country and Americana-rock, acoustic with electric, poignant lyrics and excellent vocals
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OKI: Tonkori In The Moonlight
New album: Evocative, eccentric, strange and inventive album by the veteran Japanese musician of Ainu ancestry, Oki Kano 加納 沖, brings together the traditional stringed five-stringed harp, the tonkori, into a fusion with other instruments and styles, from folk to electronica and reggae
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Alynda Segarra
New album: Wonderfully engaging eighth LP by New Orleans’ Alynda Segarra of “nature punk” electronica and lo-fi indie, with songs variously intimate, grand, sensual, and emotionally powerful, taking a hands-on, eco-aware vivid walk through our planet
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The Lore of the Land
New album: A magical, mystical, gently mesmerising new LP of psych-folk by the band from Lewes in Sussex, interweaving tales of heartbreak, paganism and nature, in the traditions of Shirley Collins, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention, Trees or Mellow Candle
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Big Thief’s campfire of inspiration
New album: Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia return with a fifth and landmark double album of gorgeous, intelligent, free-flowing songwriting, mixing folk, pop, rock and country
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Harpist Rachel Newton and violinist Lauren MacColl come together as Heal & Harrow
New album: Hauntingly stark, evocative, and chillingly beautiful folk as harpist Rachel Newton and violinist Lauren MacColl, with added spoken word commentaries in English and Gaelic, release an album of songs telling the tale of women wrongfully persecuted during Scottish witch trials in the 16th-18th centuries
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