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Fat White Family: Forgiveness Is Yours
New album: Lias Saoudi and co return with their first since 2019’s Serfs Up, one with that despite the troubled departure of founding member Saul Adamczewski during its creation, is an entertainingly sharp, ironic, aesthetic, literary release packed with stylish reference points, soundscapes and tunes
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Iron & Wine: Light Verse
New album: A poetic latest release indeed North Carolina’s Sam Beam, packed with beautiful lyrics and melodies, articulate alternative folk, rock and country with flavours of Paul Simon and Cat Stevens, filled with vivid fictional and personal insights, desperate characters and wide-eyed optimists, heartache, tears and laughter including an appearance by Fiona Apple
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All aflame: St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
New album: Annie Clark’s follow-up to 2021’s 70s-inspired Daddy’s Home is a striking, stylish self-produced LP, with a rawer, starker edge, fierce guitars, a theme of characters pushed between their true selves and how they’re perceived, an includes guests Dave Grohl and Cate Le Bon
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Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U
New album: This third album by the truly alternative experimental avant-garde rock-jazz trio brings them stretching to an even more unique sound, oddly free-forming, woozy, otherworldly, and abstract
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BODEGA: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life
New album: Smart, literary, packed with cultural references from film, books and art, the New York post-punk band’s fourth album is a more melodic release than the punchier of previous, being in part a self-reflexive reworking of much older songs from their previous incarnation as Bodega Bay
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English Teacher: This Could Be Texas
New album: An outstanding debut LP – subtle, original and experimental – by the Leeds quartet of Lily Fontaine, Douglas Frost, Nicholas Eden and Lewis Whiting, packed with intelligent, tender, rich, thoughtful, observational metaphor, and broad, inventive instrumentation
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Bob Vylan’s second album: Humble As The Sun
New album: The London hip-hop-punk-heavy-rock duo return with a second helping of articulate, pull-no-punches, take-no-prisoners social and political commentary, taking aim at Tory-ruled Britain, corrupt police, toxic masculinity and other social ills, but alongside righteous rage, some doses of positivity
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The Black Keys: Ohio Players
New album: With a 12th LP, the title and artwork inspired by the legendary funk band from their home state, the duo of singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney return with a collaborative spring in their step, their bluesy rock stimulated by co-writers Beck, Noel Gallagher and other guests
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Holiday Ghosts: Coat of Arms
New album: Following last year’s Absolute Reality LP, a further fabulously catchy garage and surf rock selection by the Falmouth band with polished, clean, guitar and bass sounds, wistful, witty, drily humorous lyrics, and marvellous pop melodies across 10 snappy numbers
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Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood
New album: Following 2020’s acclaimed album Saint Cloud, Alabama-raised, Kansas City-based singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield returns with a strong, solid, steady release that sits comfortably in the middle ground of Americana, pop and country
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Elbow: Audio Vertigo
New album: The Bury-formed band of Guy Garvey, Craig Potter and co return with their 10th LP, one particularly marked by experimental styles, thunderous rhythms and adventurous sounds, sometimes reminiscent of Peter Gabriel
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The Dandy Warhols - Rockmaker
New album: Flamboyant yet droll, swaggering, fuzzy, sizzling, meaty, dark’n’ dirty rock in this 12th studio LP from the veteran Portland band fronted by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, here joined by guests including Pixies’ Frank Black, Slash and Debbie Harry
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Dan Boeckner’s debut solo LP, Boekner!
New album: The Canadian indie-rock veteran of Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators, Atlas Strategic and more releases his first solo LP, a scintillating synth-sheen, autobiographical sci-fi cityscape of alt-pop with shades of early 80s Bowie
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The Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards
New album: A first album for 15 years by the Atlanta rock band fronted by the charismatic Chris Robinson with guitarist brother Rich, with feisty, pacey, blues-rock return packed with banging new tunes reminiscent of the Stones to AC/DC to ZZ Top
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Kim Gordon: The Collective
New album: Dark, crashing, whispering, abstract, deadpan internal monologues, dreamlike off-beat poetry, trip beats, crunchy electronica and industrial grunge-guitar noise, the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman, bassist and visual artist’s new LP is a challenging, truly innovative release
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YOVA: Dreamcatchers
New album: An alluring, breathy, sensual, supernaturalistic LP by the duo of Jova Radevska and Mark Vernon, with a theme delving into the unconscious, for lost and unrealised dreams and ideals, and how they are nurtured, then realised, abandoned or destroyed
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Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven
New album: Dynamically vaulting between fierce, explosive anger and beautiful tenderness, unabashed lust, sometimes soothing and seductive, at others biting, this is a powerful, passionate, new indie-rock LP by the band fronted by singer and guitarist Marisa Dabice
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Liam Gallagher & John Squire: boxes ticked …
New album: Sounding just as you might imagine, this pairing of the Oasis singer and Stone Roses guitarist is a well-crafted, cocky Mancunian psychedelic cocktail of classic, stylish, sneer-swagger psychedelia
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Pregoblin II
New album: A long-awaited LP of brilliantly effortless, fun-filled experimental pop - clever, wryly humorous, gently melancholic, mischievously playful - by the strangely under acclaimed south London band fronted by singer-songwriters Alex Sebley and Jessica Winter
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Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath
New album: The charismatic Tyneside-raised singer-songwriter of Norwegian and Pakistani heritage returns in fabulous, rich-voiced form with a powerfully dark fifth LP, resilient after a tumultuous few years of family grief, failed marriage, attempted suicide and rehab
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