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A diverse gathering of sounds from Rob St John, Colleen, Cheval Sombre, The Chills and Juliana Hatfield goes through some evaluating ears
The polymathic Stephen Coates accounts for the belated full return and phased retirement of The Real Tuesday Weld
Eleventh Dream Day co-founders Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean tell virtually all on the band’s superb new double-sized album
Arab Strap explore the darkness of human exploits on the wistful and polished As Days Get Dark, their first album since 2005
The ever-resourceful and chameleonic Chris Brokaw returns satisfyingly with his first songs-based solo long player since 2012
Diverse new albums from Memory Drawings, Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs and Andy Bell leave the review pile for an accumulated assessment
Thalia Zedek, Jason Sidney Sanford and Gavin McCarthy return with their third album as E, to prophetically plug into our waking fever dreams
After a few interim years detours, Malmö’s Death and Vanilla finally deliver their first songs-based LP since 2015
Rozi Plain takes us to a land of daydreaming adventure and enigmatic word play that is far removed from these cold streets and dreary times
Where Zola Jesus meets Johnny Jewel and cosmic sparks go off in these versions, edits and remixes of “Wiseblood” and “Ash to Bone”
The Silver Field’s debut album grants access to a hermetic world of sound alive with psychedelic drones, alien apparitions and inverted dreams
Stewart Gardiner has a not quite Proustian reaction to the Manics’ anniversary reissue of This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours