Albums

‘no floor’ is more eaze & claire rousay’s most organic and free-flowing record to date. With not a wasted note to be heard, it’s full of ideas, using the collage form to its full potential; an impeccably crafted album and highly recommended.

Cameron Knowler’s “CRK” is a pivotal and adventurous album that feels both timeless and forward-looking. With its diverse and engaging character and mature and assured arrangements, he’s crafted a fine and highly recommended album.

Experimental, trippy, fiercely creative and quite mesmerising, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl’s ‘For Translucence’ is a tricky album to pin down, but you’ll be glad you gave it the time and space to reveal itself.

On ‘Come Into the Garden’, Natalie Wildgoose conjures a strange world submerged in sweet, subtle sound and rich in the unlearnable language of dream and memory.

Throughout ‘Uncharted’, the new album from Rachael McShane & The Cartographers, the music sounds fresh and vibrant alongside Rachael’s bright vocals. It’s perfect for spring and hugely enjoyable to listen to. And for that, we can be grateful.

The songs on Alex Rex’s ‘The National Trust’ may revel in bitterness and humiliation, but they are real and unflinching and fearsomely clever and often beautiful. Neilson remains an absolute one-off.

Toria Wooff’s sophistically cultivated self-titled debut album is a work of art that demands proper engagement and, in return, promises fruitful payback. The maturity on show points to even more interesting creativity further down the line.

It’s time Jeffrey Lewis was recognised as one of the best lyricists of his generation, The Even More Freewheelin’ should do more than cement that status. All things being fair, it should go down as one of the best albums of his career.

Dylan Golden Aycock’s ‘No New Summers’ is a probing, mercurial piece of art that looks to expand upon the norms of the so-called American Primitive brand of instrumental guitar music…rejoice in the artists daring to challenge the norms and bringing us music to shout about.

On “IN / OUT”, Violeta García explores and pushes the cello’s sonic possibilities. She recorded the album in a cave that once housed Geneva’s water reservoir, transforming it into a natural acoustic chamber.

Oxfordshire and Derbyshire are the latest Ceremonial Counties to get the Folklore Tapes treatment, courtesy of nebulous experimental collective The Funz and audio archaeologist Mark Vernon. Both tracks are awash with unexpected and often eerie beauty.

On ‘Fits and Starts’, maverick sonic sculptors Rami Atassi & Caleb Willitz pack a tonne of creativity and ace music into barely twenty minutes. A great way to kickstart their new record label ‘Midnight Tea’.