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This Week’s New Releases: Harry Styles, M Huncho and Lykke Li

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Some highly anticipated releases have arrived today. We’ve got the new solo LP from Harry Styles, masked London rapper M Huncho has put out a star-studded new record, and Lykke Li has released an audiovisual album. Head below for more new releases.

Alex Izenberg – ‘I’m Not Here’ (Domino)

AV Dummy – ‘Pornoviolence’ (Wolf Tone)

Blut aus Nord – ‘Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses’ (Debemur Morti)

Craig Finn – ‘A Legacy of Rentals’ (Positive James/Thirty Tigers)

Fable – ‘Shame’ (Naim)

Grant Lee Phillips – ‘All That You Can Dream’ (Yep Roc)

Hanson – ‘Red Green Blue’ (3GC)

Harry Styles – ‘Harry’s House’ (Columbia)

Jack Savoretti – ‘Europiana Encore’ (Universal)

James Labrie – ‘Beautiful Shade Of Grey’ (Insideout)

Jordana – ‘Face The Wall’ (Grand Jury)

Lykke Li – ‘EYEYE’ (Play It Again Sam)

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm – ‘Carry Me Home’ (Anti-)

Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell – ‘Entre Eux Deux’ (Decca)

Moby – ‘Reprise – Remixes’ (Deutsche Grammophon)

M Huncho – ‘Chasing Euphoria’ (Island)

Plankton Wat – ‘Hidden Path’ (Thrill Jockey Records)

Pond – ‘9 (Deluxe)’ (Spinning Top)

Porridge Radio – ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky’ (Secretly Canadian)

Project Gemini – ‘The Children of Scorpio’ (Mr Bongo)

Soak – ‘If I Never Know You Like This Again’ (Rough Trade)

Spice – ‘Viv’

Tess Parks – ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’ (Fuzz Club Records)

Thomas Dollbaum – ‘Wellswood’ (Big Legal Mess Records)

Train – ‘AM Gold’ (Columbia)

Uffie – ‘Sunshine Factory’ (Company Records)

Van Morrison – ‘What’s It Gonna Take?’ (Exile Music)

Zach Bryan – ‘American Heartbreak’ (Warner)

Zola Jesus – ‘Arkhon’ (Sacred Bones)

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This Week’s New Releases: Florence + The Machine, The Black Keys And The Smile

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There’s lots of lovely new music for you to wrap your listening gear around this week. Florence + The Machine have released the long awaited follow-up to 2018’s ‘High As Hope’, The Black Keys have put out their 11th studio album, and we’ve finally got a debut album from The Smile, the supergroup featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner. Scroll down for more new music.

Bear’s Den – ‘Blue Hours’ (Communion)

Becky G – ‘ESQUEMAS’ (Kemosabe Records/RCA Records/Sony Music Latin)

The Black Keys – ‘Dropout Boogie’ (Nonesuch)

The Brothers Landreth – ‘Come Morning’ (Birthday Cake)

Ethel Cain – ‘Preaches Daughter’ (Daughters Of Cain Records)

Faust – ‘Punkt’ (Bureau B)

Florence + the Machine – ‘Dance Fever’ (Polydor)

The Garbage and the Flowers – ‘Cinnamon Sea’ EP (Fire Records)

Kevin Morby – ‘This Is A Photograph’ (Dead Oceans)

Luke Steele – ‘Listen To The Water’ (EMI)

Lyle Lovett – ‘12th of June’ (Verve)

Mandy Moore – ‘In Real Life’ (Verve/UMG)

Moderat – ‘More D4TA’ (Monkeytown)

Melts – ‘Maelstrom’ (Mother Sky)

The Rolling Stones – ‘Live At The El Mocambo’ (Promotone B.V/Universal)

Sasha Alex Sloan – ‘I Blame The World’ (RCA)

Skills – ‘Different Worlds’ (Frontiers)

The Smile – ‘A Light For Attracting attention’ (XL)

State Champs – ‘Kings Of the New Age’ (Pure Noise)

Zero Hour – ‘Agenda 21’ (Frontiers)

 

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This Week’s New Releases: Arcade Fire, Belle And Sebastian, And Warpaint

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Hyperbole aside, this week is chock-full of new music. Arcade Fire have followed up 2017’s ‘Everything Now’, Belle and Sebastian are back with their seventh LP, and Warpaint have released their first album in six years. Still hungry for more? Head below.

Arcade Fire – ‘WE’ (Columbia)

Belle and Sebastian – ‘A Bit Of Previous’ (Matador)

Bryan Ferry – ‘Love Letters’ EP (BMG)

C.Duncan – ‘Alluvium’ (Bella Union)

De Vega – ‘The Night Wait’ (De Vega)

Dubstar – ‘Two’ (Northern Writes)

Emeli Sandé – ‘Let’s Say For Instance’ (Chrysalis)

The Feeling – ‘Loss.Hope.Love.’ (Island)

Fozzy – ‘Boombox’ (Century Family Inc)

Halestorm – ‘Back From The Dead’ (Atlantic)

Ibeyi – ‘Spell 31’ (XL)

Jack Harlow – ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ (Generation Now/Atlantic)

Kate Rusby – ‘30: Happy Returns’ (Pure)

Knucks – ‘Alpha Place’ (No Days Off)

Leyla McCalla – ‘Breaking The Thermometer’ (Anti-)

Mowgs – ‘The Bare Necessities’ (Birch Boy)

Neil Young – ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 974’ (Reprise)

Peaness – ‘World Full Of Worry’ (Peaness)

Pure Reason Revolution – ‘Above Cirrus’ (InsideOut)

Rick Astley – ‘Whenever You Need Somebody (Deluxe 2022)’ (BMG)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – ‘Endless Rooms’ (Sub Pop)

Sabrina Claudio – ‘Based On A Feeling’ (Atlantic)

Sharon Van Etten – ‘We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong’ (Jagjaguwar)

Sheryl Crow – ‘Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary’ (UMG)

Sigma – ‘Hope’ (3Beat)

Sigrid – ‘How To Let Go’ (Island)

Silverstein – ‘Misery Made Me’ (UNFD)

Simple Plan – ‘Harder Than It Looks’ (Simple Plan)

Soft Cell – ‘Happiness Not Included’ (BMG)

Stand Atlantic – ‘F.E.A.R.’ (Hopeless)

Three Days Grace – ‘Explosions’ (RCA)

Timothy B. Schmit – ‘Day By Day’ (Timothy B. Schmit)

TSHA – ‘Fabric Pts TSHA’ (Fabric)

Warpaint – ‘Radiate Like This’ (Virgin)

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This Week’s New Releases: Rammstein, Kehlani and Bloc Party

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It’s another mixed bag this week. Rammstein have followed up their 2019 untitled LP, and Bloc Party are back with their sixth album, and first since 2016’s ‘Hymns’. Kehlani, meanwhile, has dropped the star-studded follow-up to 2020’s ‘It Was Good Until It Wasn’t’, which features collaborations with Justin Bieber, Blxst, Jessie Reyez, Syd and more.

Fill your boots with some more new music below.

Ann Wilson – ‘Fierce Bliss’ (Silver Lining)

Archive – ‘Call To Arms & Angels’ (Dangervisit/[PIAS])

Astrel K – ‘Flickering I'(Duophonic Super 45s)

Bloc Party – ‘Alpha Games’ (BMG)

Blossoms – ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’ (EMI)

Charlie Collins – ‘Undone’ (Island)

Chris Janson – ‘All In’ (Warner Nashville)

Congotronics International – ‘Where’s The One?’ (Crammed Discs)

Dana Gavanski – ‘When It Comes’ (Flemish Eye Records)

Diane Coffee – ‘With People’ (Polyvinyl)

Eli “Paperboy” Reed – ‘Down Every Road’ (Yep Roc)

Frontperson – ‘Parade’ (Oscar Street Records)

Ghost Power – ‘Ghost Power’ (Duophonic Super 45s)

Girlpool – ‘Forgiveness’ (Anti-)

The Head and the Heart – ‘Every Shade Of Blue’ (Warner)

Helms Alee – ‘Keep This Be The Way’ (Sargent House)

Honeyglaze – ‘Honeyglaze’ (Speedy Wunderground/[PIAS])

Jaz Valentino – ‘Jaz’s Blues (Side A)’ (Jaz Valentino)

Karen Elson – ‘Green’ (Big Yellow Dog Music)

Kehlani – ‘blue water road’ (TSNMI/Atlantic)

Kelly Lee Owens – ‘LP.8’ (Smalltown Supersound)

Let’s Eat Grandma – ‘Two Ribbons’ (Transgressive)

Lola Kirke – ‘Lady For Sale’ (Third Man Records)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – ‘Emotional Eternal’ (Domino)

Miranda Lambert – ‘Palomino’ (Vanner/Sony)

Neil Young – ‘Official Release Series: Volume 4’ (Reprise)

Norah Jones – ‘Come Away With Me (20th Anniversary Edition)’ (Blue Note/UMe)

Rammstein – ‘Zeit’ (Vertigo/Capitol)

Reef – ‘Shoot Me Your Ace’ (Raging Sea)

Röyksopp – ‘Profound Mysteries’ (Dog Triumph)

Seratones – ‘Love & Algorhythms’ (New West Records)

Shelby Darrall – ‘Entertainment For The Brokenhearted’ EP (GCE Records)

Sofi Tukker – ‘Wet Tennis’ (Sofi Tukker/Ultra Records)

Stylo G – ‘Detentio Mixtape’ (365 Records)

Thunder – ‘Dopamine’ (BMG)

Tomberlin – ‘i don’t know who needs to hear this…’ (Saddle Creek Records)

Toro Y Moi – ‘MAHAL’ (Dead Oceans)

Trombone Shorty – ‘Lifted’ (Blue Note/UMG)

Willie Nelson – ‘A Beautiful Time’ (Sony)

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This Week’s New Releases: Fontaines D.C., Pusha T And Kirk Hammett

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Things are back in full swing this week! Fontaines D.C. have dropped their highly anticipated third LP, Pusha T has followed up 2018’s ‘Daytona’, and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will release his debut solo EP, ‘Portals’, tomorrow as part of Record Store Day.

Fancy some more? Fill your boots below.

Baby Dave – ‘Monkey Brain’ (Baby Dave)

Bob Vylan – ‘Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life’ (Ghost Theatre)

Bonnie Raitt – ‘Just Like That…’ (Redwing Records)

Brian May – ‘Another World (Deluxe Edition) (Duck/Universal)

Caliban – ‘Dystopia’ (Century Media Records)

Erasers – ‘Constant Connection’ (Fire Talk)

Fontaines D.C. – ‘Skinty Fia’ (Partisan)

Hatchie – ‘Giving The World Away’ (Secretly Canadian)

Jane Inc. – ‘Faster Than I Can Take’ (Telephone Explosion Records)

Jeanines – ‘Don’t Wait For A Sign’ (Slumberland Records)

Joshua Hedley – ‘Neon Blue’ (New West Records)

Kate Bollinger – ‘Look At It In The Light’ EP (Ghostly International)

Kathryn Joseph – ‘For You Who Are The Wronged’ (Rock Action)

Keston Cobblers Club – ‘Alchemy’ (Tricolour Records)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – ‘Omnium Gatherum’ (KGLW)

Kirk Hammett – ‘Portals’ EP (Blackened Recordings) (out April 23)

The Lazy Eyes – ‘SongBook’ (The Lazy Eyes)

My Idea – ‘Cry Mfer’ (Hardly Art)

Ocean Grove – ‘Up In The Air Forever’ (UNFD)

Old Crow Medicine Show – ‘Paint This Town’ (ATO Records)

Particle Kid – ‘Time Capsule’ (Overseas Artists Recordings)

Paul Brady – ‘Maybe So’ (Proper Records)

Poppy Ajudha – ‘The Power In Us’ (Poppy Ajudha)

Pusha T – ‘It’s Almost Dry’ (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam/UMG)

Roger Eno – ‘The Turning Year’ (Deutsche Grammophon)

Rumer – ‘B-Sides & Rarities, Vol.2’ (Cooking Vinyl)

S. Carey – ‘Break Me Open’ (Jagjaguwar)

Shinedown – ‘Planet Zero’ (Atlantic)

Spiritualized – ‘Everything Was Beautiful’ (Bella Union)

Suki Waterhouse – ‘I Can’t Let Go’ (Sub Pop)

Tess Roby – ‘Ideas Of Space’ (SSURROUNDSS)

T. Rex – ‘1972’ (Demon Music)

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This Week’s New Releases: Jewel, Kurt Vile And Digga D

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It’s a short but sweet post this week. Jewel has released her first album in seven years, Kurt Vile has followed up 2018’s ‘Bottle It In’, and British rapper and drill star Digga D has dropped his new mixtape. Head below for more new music.

50 Foot Wave – ‘Black Pearl’ (Fire Records)

Alec Benjamin – ‘(Un)Commentary’ (Elektra/Atlantic)

Digga D – ‘Noughty By Nature’ (CGM Records/EGA)

Edgar Winter – ‘Brother Johnny’ (Quarto Valley Records)

Eric Paslay – ‘Even If It Breaks Your Barefoot Friday Night’ (Paso Fino Records)

Jewel – ‘Freewheelin’ Woman’ (Words Matter Media)

Kurt Vile – ‘(Watch My Moves)’ (Verve/UMG)

Swedish House Mafia – ‘Paradise Again’ (SSA/Republic/UMG)

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This Week’s New Releases: Camila Cabello, Jack White And Orville Peck

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This week is BUSY! Camila Cabello has released her highly anticipated third studio album, masked country singer Orville Peck has put out his second, and Jack White has dropped the first of two albums he plans to release this year. The other, ‘Entering Heaven Alive’, will arrive on July 22.

Check out the rest of this week’s new releases below.

The Assist – ‘Council Pop’ (The Assist)

Banks – ‘Serpentina’ (AWAL)

Calexico – ‘El Mirador’ (Anti-)

Camila Cabello – ‘Familia’ (Epic Records)

Chloe Moriondo – ‘puppy luv’ EP (Public Consumption/Fueled By Ramen)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘Room At The Top’ EP (CYHSY)

Cody Simpson – ‘Cody Simpson’ (Coast House)

Deer Scout – ‘Woodpecker’ (Carpark)

Dom Martin – ‘A Savaged Life’ (Dom Martin Music)

Envy Of None – ‘Envy Of None’ (Snapper Music Ltd)

Father John Misty – ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ (Sub Pop)

First Signal – ‘Closer To The Edge’ (Frontiers Records)

HEALTH – ‘DISCO4 :: PART II’ (Loma Vista/Concord)

Jack White – ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ (Third Man Records)

Joe Satriani – ‘The Elephants Of Mars’ (earMUSIC)

John Carroll Kirby – ‘Dance Ancestral’ (Stones Throw Records)

Kae Tempest – ‘The Line Is A Curve’ (Republic/UMG)

The Linda Lindas – ‘Growing Up’ (Epitaph)

Lizzy McAlpine – ‘Five Seconds Flat’ (Harbour Artists/AWAL)

Lucius – ‘Second Nature’ (Mom+Pop)

Maddox Jones – ‘Believe It’ (Radikal Records)

November Ultra – ‘Bedroom Walls’ (Hollywood Summer Records/Virgin)

Omar Apollo – ‘Ivory’ (Warner)

Orville Peck – ‘Bronco’ (Columbia)

Overmono – ‘Cash Romantic’ EP (XL Recordings)

Panic Shack – ‘Baby Shack’ EP (Brace Yourself Records/Clwb Music)

Papa Roach – ‘Ego Trip’ (New Noize/ADA Warner Music)

Pavement – ‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’ (Matador Records)

Riding The Low – ‘The Death Of Gobshite Rambo’ (Clinical Finish)

Syd – ‘Broken Hearts Club’ (Columbia)

Vince Staples – ‘Ramona Park Broke My Heart’ (Blacksmith Recordings/Motown Records)

Wet Leg – ‘Wet Leg’ (Domino)

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This Week’s New Releases: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Miley Cyrus and Meshuggah

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This week is a mixed bag! Red Hot Chili Peppers have released their first album with returning guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s ‘Stadium Arcadium’, powerhouse vocalist Miley Cyrus has dropped her debut live LP, and Swedish extreme tech-metal giants Meshuggah have released their long awaited ninth studio album.

Not your bag? Head below for more new music.

Andy and the Odd Socks – ‘Odd Socks Calling!’ (Ninja Pig/Cooking Vinyl)

Carpenter Brut – ‘Leather Terror’ (No Quarter Prod/Virgin Records)

Confidence Man – ‘TILT’ (Heavenly Recordings)

Crows – ‘Beware Believers’ (Bad Vibrations Records)

Daryl Hall – ‘Before After’ (Sony)

Dreamville and J. Cole – ‘D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape’ (Dreamville/Interscope Records)

The Hellacopters – ‘Eyes Of Oblivion’ (Nuclear Blast)

Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers – ‘Spencer Gets It Lit’ (Bronzerat Records)

Lights – ‘PEP’ (Fueled By Ramen)

Megan Black – ‘Deadly Is The Woman’ (Megan Black)

Meshuggah – ‘Immutable’ (Atomic Fire)

Miley Cyrus – ‘Attention: Miley Live’ (Smiley Miley/Columbia)

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway – ‘Crooked Tree’ (Nonesuch Records)

MYKHE – ‘Selling Butterfly Organs’ EP (Lonely Like You Music)

Paul Cauthen – ‘Country Coming Down’ (Velvet Rose Records/Thirty Tigers)

Phi-Psonics – ‘The Cradle (Deluxe Edition)’ (Gondwana Records)

Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘Unlimited Love’ (Warner Records)

Seabear – ‘In Another Life’ (Morr Music)

Sundara Karma – ‘Oblivion!’ EP (Chess Club Recordings/AWAL)

Thomas Rhett – ‘Where We Started’ (Big Machine)

Warmduscher – ‘At The Hotspot’ (Bella Union)

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This Week’s New Releases: Placebo, Daddy Yankee and Camp Cope

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This week is chock-full of new music. Placebo have released their first album in nine years, Daddy Yankee has dropped his final LP ahead of his retirement, and Camp Cope have followed up 2018’s ‘How To Socialise And Make Friends’.

Fill your boots below with more new releases.

Anderson East – ‘M.W.N.D. / F.A.M.E.’ (Elektra/Low Country Sound)

Animals As Leaders – ‘Parrhesia’ (Sumerian Records)

Architects – ‘Fore Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road’ (Epitaph)

Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver – 10th Anniversary Edition’ (Jagjaguwar)

Camp Cope – ‘Running With The Hurricane’ (Run For Cover Records)

Cannons – ‘Fever Dreams’ (Columbia)

Casey Donahew – ‘Built Different’ (Almost Country Records)

Charli XCX – ‘CRASH (Deluxe)’ (Asylum/Warner_

Chesney Hawkes – ‘The Complete Picture – The Albums: 1991 – 2012’ (Chrysalis)

Daddy Yankee – ‘Legendaddy’ (El Cartel/Republic Records)

Denzel Curry – ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ (Loma Vista/Concord)

Destroyer – ‘Labyrinthitis’ (Merge Records)

Erin Kinsey – ’40 East’ (Records)

Gabriel Kahane – ‘Magnificent Bird’ (Magdeburg Music/Nonesuch Records)

I.AM.AFIYA – ’20 Something Blues’ EP (i.am.afiya)

Ibibio Sound Machine – ‘Electricity’ (Merge)

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – ‘Changeup’ (Blackheart Records/Sony)

Kevin Devine – ‘Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong’ (Triple Crown Records)

The Killers – ‘Pressure Machine (Deluxe)’ (Island)

Koffee – ‘Gifted’ (Promised Land Recordings)

Kristian Bush – ’52 ATL x BNA’ (Big Machine)

Larry McCray – ‘Blues Without You’ (Keeping The Blues Alive Records)

Louis Dunford – ‘The Popham’ EP (Sony)

Machine Gun Kelly – ‘Mainstream Sellout’ (Bad Boy/Interscope)

Maren Morris – ‘Humble Quest’ (Sony)

Matt Goss – ‘The Beautiful Unknown’ (Lewisham Records)

Michael Bublé – ‘Higher’ (Reprise Records)

Placebo – ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Rise Records/Elevator Lady)

Priestgate – ‘Eyes Closed For The Winter’ EP (Lucky Number Music)

Suzanne Vega – ‘Close Up Series 4 x LP Bookpack’ (Cooking Vinyl)

Young Prism – ‘Drifter’ (Fire Talk)

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This Week’s New Releases: Charli XCX, Cypress Hill And Babeheaven

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It’s all about quality not quantity with this week’s new releases. Charli XCX has dropped the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s ‘How I’m Feeling Now’, Cypress Hill are back with their 10th studio album, and Babeheaven have put out their second LP.

Find more new music below, including the highly anticipated third album from Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía.

April March – ‘In Cinerama’ (Omnivore)

Arrdee – ‘Pier Pressure’ (Island)

Babeheaven – ‘Sink Into Me’ (Babeheaven)

Blue States – ‘World Contact Day’ (Memphis Industries)

Brad Mehldau – ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (Nonesuch)

Broadcast – ‘Mother Is The Milky Way’ (Warp)

Cypress Hill – ‘Back In Black’ (Cypress Hill Muzik and MNRK Records LP)

Feeder – ‘Torpedo’ (Big Teeth)

Hot Water Music – ‘Feel The Void’ (Equal Vision Records)

Iron Maiden – ‘The Number Of The Beast (40th Anniversary)’ (PLG UK Frontline)

Little Boots – ‘Tomorrow’s Yesterdays’ (On Repeat Records)

Midlake – ‘For The Sake Of Bethel Woods’ (ATO Records)

Mindi Abair – ‘Forever’ (Pretty Good For A Girl Records)

The Ninth Wave – ‘Heavy Like A Headache’ (Distiller Records)

Pictish Trail – ‘Island Family’ (Fire Records)

Plosivs – ‘Plosivs’ (Swami)

Rosalía – ‘MOTOMAMI’ (Columbia)

Stabbing Westward – ‘Chasing Ghosts’ (COP International)

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