Du Blonde – Lung Bread For Daddy

Blonde’s having more fun…

Sound Thought 2019

An absorbing, exciting and eclectic mini festival

Bilge Pump – We Love You

Unwieldy but good psych noise from Leeds band

Beirut – Gallipoli

Fifth album from Zach Condon and crew is a lush European trip

Hen Ogledd

Neo-prog supergroup take their oddball loveliness to Celtic Connections

Tim Presley’s White Fence – I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk

Modern hazy psych is out of place in the winter months

Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

Bradford Cox and co take us on a haunting journey through our troubled cities

The 1975 – A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships

Brit winners’ new album is all about the posturing

Christine and the Queens

Enjoyable but frustrating set from the French artist

Rattle – Sequence

Nottingham duo offer extraordinary percussion, but can test the patience

Jon Spencer

Trash garage legend rocks Glasgow

Julia Holter – Aviary

Uneasy listening from LA multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter

The Nightingales – Perish The Thought

Difficult, brilliant music for tough times from midlands four-piece

The Nightingales

Unpindownable band are on magnificently malevolent form