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Stornoway: Dig The Mountain!
New album: After splitting in 2016 the Oxfordshire indie folk band of Brian Briggs and co return with a very fine fourth LP of clear-voiced, catchy, vivid songs themed on the fragile relationship between humans and the environment
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Sufjan Stevens: Javelin
New album: After a series of collaborative and more experimental projects, the American artist’s first full singer-songwriter solo LP since 2015’s remarkable Carrie & Lowell is just as exquisite, delicate, tender, and beautifully heartbreaking
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Meatraffle: Base and Superstructure
New album: Biting class social satire from the silly to searing and hilarious are all delivered in this catchy, fun third album of electro-pop with added trumpet by the south London band, packed with toe-tapping melodies and caustic, killer lines
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Jorja Smith: Falling Or Flying
New album: Classy, polished, melancholy soulful R&B with the return of the highly successful singer-songwriter from Walsall, who after the bright lights of London scene, has returned to live near her homeland roots with a running lyrical theme of uneasiness with fame
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Molly Burch: Daydreamer
New album: Inspired by a rediscovery of her diaries when 13 and under, this fourth LP by the LA and Austin, Texas singer-songwriter is a deep dive into inner emotions, awash with soft focus, beautiful, swooning, lush melodies and her strong, sensual voice
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Say She She: Silver
New album: A wonderful double LP by the Anglo-American female-led trio of Piya Malik, Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown in a joyous early 80s-style mix of disco, pop and soul
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Sirens of Lesbos: Peace
New album: Fascinatingly cool, crisp, delicate, experimental futuristic pop-funk by the band based in Bern, Switzerland, sprinkled with oddball instrumentation and electronica and including a guest appearance by bass legend Bootsy Collins
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Jenny Owen Youngs: Avalanche
New album: After various adventures in music for film and TV and a series of EPs, the American singer-songwriter returns with her first solo LP in a decade, a beautifully delicate collection of indie-folk-pop about of self-reflection, love, loss, redemption and bittersweet honesty
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CHAI’s self-titled fourth album
New album: Cheeky, squeaky, funky, refreshingly fun, but also full of clever irony and a feminist flavour , the Japanese girl pop quartet return their fourth, and self-titled LP, a follow-up to last 2021’s WINK, with a retro synth-pop style
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Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
New album: With one of the purest voices around, a sublime seventh album by the Japanese-American artist – slow, powerful, dreamy country-flecked pop with orchestra, themed around troubled love and coloured with animal-themed metaphors
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Corinne Bailey Rae: Black Rainbows
New album: A landmark of powerful storytelling and songwriting in this fourth album by the Leeds-born singer with songs inspired by immersion into a rich collection of art, books and artefacts about Black history organised by Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago
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Public Service Broadcasting: This New Noise
New album: A tremendous noise indeed about radio, as the vintage footage-inspired experimentalist band led by J Wildgoose Esq release a remastered album version of their acclaimed 2022 BBC Proms performance from London’s Royal Albert Hall with the full BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Olivia Rodrigo’s got GUTS
New album: Following the extraordinary success of her 2021 debut album, Sour, this follow-up contains all the formulas for more, from passionate pop to heartbreak piano ballad, and Billie Eilish-style vocal intimacy, but now with a harder, dealing-with-fame edge
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CLT DRP: Nothing Clever, Just Feelings
New album: Brilliantly original and fresh post- and dance-punk and electro-pop by the Brighton band with songs about heartbreak and queerness, feminism, vulnerability and gender fluidity, packed with unique sounds, passion and humour
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The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling
New album: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons return with their 10th LP in nearly three decades, one with that brings together sci-fi-themed, almost psychedelic apocalypse and upbeat, laser-light dance floor bangers
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Róisín Murphy’s sixth album, Hit Parade
New album: Recent controversies aside, the Irish singer-songwriter’s collaboration with German producer DJ Koze is a mesmerically inventive, intimate, candid exploration of funk, pop, disco and house, skilfully pushed through an wonderfully warped aural lens of vocal effects and sounds
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Pale Blue Eyes: This House is a wistful look back at happy childhood with parents now passed on
New album: After last year’s promising debut, Souvenirs, the Devon trio return with an uplifting fusion of electro-pop and krautrock, one that deals with parental loss, but with a fondness, stylistically with some echoes of Django Django and some 80s sounds reminiscent of New Order and The Cure
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eee gee: SHE-REX
New album: Packed with smart, witty lyrics and an eclectic mix of dreamy pop, disco, folk and electronica, a wonderful new melodious LP by the smooth-voiced Danish artist Emma Grankvist from Copenhagen
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Birdy: Portraits
New album: Luxuriant, grandiose yet also melancholy high-quality synth-pop by the English artist Jasmine van den Bogaerde (and great-niece of Dirk Bogarde) from Lymington, Hampshire, in a fifth LP that particularly evokes mid-80s Kate Bush and some current Caroline Polachek
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Willie J Healey: Bunny
New album: With echoes of Shuggie Otis, 1970s George Harrison, and heaps of Sly Stone-style chilled, squelchy funk, the British singer-songwriter third album is smooth helping of soulful pop with a delicious, laid-back summer vibe
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