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#AlexCattaneo – Releveler (Bandcamp)
Jazz-inflected steel guitar instrumentals from a Canadian musician who knows how to strike a mood and sustain it through dramatic twists and turns
#GreatAlbums2024 My 20 favourite albums this year...
#AroojAftab – Night Reign (Verve)
Ethereal jazz from a Pakistani-American singer and composer who guides you into quiet corners where dark emotions reign
#GreatAlbums2024 My 20 favourite albums this year...
#BethGibbons – Lives Outgrown (Domino)
A welcome comeback from the Portishead lead singer, whose timeless voice and shadowy songs leave you haunted and beguiled
#GreatAlbums2024 My 20 favourite albums this year...
Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (Duellist Holdings)
Spirited set from the Iron Maiden frontman whose solo work runs a little more ragged through his own high-concept mythos couched in heavy riffs
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#CassandraJenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
This New York songwriter infuses songs of relatable emotions with meditations on the cosmos and our tiny human position in the wider universe.
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#TheCure – Songs of a Lost World (Lost Music)
After a sixteen year pause, the Cure return to form on this intense and bleak set of songs full of Robert Smith’s forlorn meditations on the existential wasteland
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#Danielfuzztone – Absolute Knowledge (Bandcamp)
Ambient song cycle out of Florida, which puts you in a meditative mood with shades of analog grit reminiscent of classic European electronic music
#GreatAlbums2024 My 20 favourite albums this year...
#DuaLipa – Radical Optimism (Warner)
A bright set of danceable pop anthems by the British-Albanian diva with synth-driven production led by Tame Impala main man Kevin Parker.
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Father John Misty – Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)
Lushly orchestrated and serene – like the best of Harry Nilsson or Nick Cave – Misty’s songs get you right in the gut with simple, timeless craftsmanship and pithy lyrics
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#JaneWeaver – Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
Weaver’s songs crack the seams of traditional pop to expose vintage prog and synthwave overtones in songs that resonate like early Nico or a chilled out PJ Harvey.