Sailing Stones’ “Slow Magic” is one of the most satisfyingly complete collections of songs I have heard this year. Built around matrescence, the transitions a woman goes through at the time of bringing new life into the world, the whole record plays like a kaleidoscopic whirligig, shimmering in and out of focus, crafted with a crackly analogue, hands-on human touch. Her best album yet.

On “Pt. Roadknight”, Leah Senior leans into the hazy fog of late-sixties, early-seventies folk rock, recorded with a natural analogue texture that lends these songs a human touch. It turns its inward gaze outward, offering her reflections with a clarity of purpose. As she reminds us in ‘Talk To Me,’ there is a fine line between focus and withdrawal, and this album walks it with rare grace.

Radie Peat of Lankum and ØXN releases her debut solo single, “Still I Love Him”, via Rough Trade. John Francis Flynn found the song in the Irish Traditional Music Archives and wrote a new melody; Peat reshaped it around her contralto, holding elation and devastation at once. Robbie Mailler Howat directs the video.