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HMLTD West of Eden

HMLTD
West of Eden

Driving bass, angular guitars and a sardonic take on society’s imminent collapse

Wolff Parkinson White Favours

Wolff Parkinson White
Favours

A challenging if indulgent effort from the New York-based jazz drummer

Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar

Dan Deacon
Mystic Familiar

Baltimore musician takes the listener on an intense and beautiful musical journey

Polica

Poliça
When We Stay Alive

Back injury brings a downbeat affair from Minneapolis synth-pop band

Sam Lee Old Wow cover

Sam Lee
Old Wow

Climate crisis is the focus on Mercury-nominated folk singer’s third album

Smoke Fairies Darkness Brings The Wonder Home

Smoke Fairies
Darkness Brings The Wonders Home

Sixth album is buffed up and confident, but possibly not dark enough

Isobel Campbell There Is No Other

Isobel Campbell
There Is No Other

The Jean Seberg of indie returns with psychedelic pop

Twin Temple

Stereo

Twin Temple

The Devil has the best music in a spectacular black mass from cult LA duo

13 Crowes

13 Crowes
Solway Star

Annan band offer Scottish rock in The Boss’s shadow

Laurie Cameron

Laurie Cameron
Something In Us Never Dies

Robert Burns feels alive and electric in the hands of electronic singer-songwriter

Wire Mind Hive

Wire
Mind Hive

Beautiful album from post-punk legends who are still full of rage

Yorkston Thorne Khan

Yorkston / Thorne / Khan
Navarasa : Nine Emotions

Cross-cultural trio put meat on the bones of their musical experimentation with best album yet

Of Montreal
UR FUN

Typically exuberant fare from synthpop veterans let down by lack of subtlety

Algiers

Algiers
There is No Year

The ever uncompromising gospel-rockers deliver a complex yet impressively focused effort

Iris Dement

Royal Concert Hall

Iris DeMent

Americana icon makes a sublime long-awaited return to Celtic Connections

A Girl Called Eddy

A Girl Called Eddy
Been Around

Long absent singer-songwriter returns with easy-on-the-ear soul-pop of superior quality

Aoife Nessa Frances

Aoife Nessa Frances
Land of No Junction

A promising first album from Irish songwriter

The Who

The Who
Who

The surviving duo show they’ve still got it on impressive new album

Native Harrow

Voodoo Rooms

Native Harrow

A moving folk rock performance that whisks you away to peaceful places

Private Memoirs

The Just Joans
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of The Just Joans

Glasgow outfit deliver ramshackle indie pop with a touch of comic snark