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Mdou Moctar  Funeral For Justice

Funeral For Justice represents another step in decentralizing the public discourse from Western normative standards, hopefully allowing for a better understanding of others and ourselves Spin

Nina Nastasia  Riderless Horse

Her first album in three years, Reasonable Woman, is also solid, a return to the aesthetic mean that works more than it doesn’t. None of the singles released from it so far have been hits, but they’re all resolutely competent examples of Sia’s knack for sweeping, feelings-heavy glitz Rolling Stone

Camera Obscura  Look to the East, Look to the West

Eleven years since their last album and nine since keyboardist Carey Lander’s death, the beloved Scottish indie-poppers return with an appealing balance of fond memories and fresh energy Pitchfork

The Lemon Twigs  A Dream Is All We Know

It’s not quite their Revolver, but who’s to say they won’t be releasing their very own Sgt Pepper by the time the year’s out? musicOMH

Mdou Moctar  Funeral For Justice

This may be the best of an already-excellent run of albums, produced by the greatest rock band in the world musicOMH

Kamasi Washington  Fearless Movement

This feels like a fearless artistic movement if ever I heard one Clash

Rachel Chinouriri  What A Devastating Turn Of Events

After a string of EPs, Chinouriri arrives at her first full-length with confidence and ease. Devastation has never sounded so fun The Line Of Best Fit

Rachel Chinouriri  What A Devastating Turn Of Events

Smartly sequenced and wound by emotional depth, Rachel Chinouriri’s debut is guitar pop from a bygone era The Skinny

Rachel Chinouriri  What A Devastating Turn Of Events

Closing a lengthy wait for her debut album, Rachel Chinouriri proves that every moment was necessary on a defining triumph Clash

Rachel Chinouriri  What A Devastating Turn Of Events

In these hard times, the 25-year-old's characterful tunes are warm and uplifting: music primed for brighter days ahead NME

Camera Obscura  Look to the East, Look to the West

Tracyanne Campbell still writes exquisite songs that don’t sacrifice melancholy for cleverness, and the band still provide smart arrangements that nod to country, Motown, Brill Building pop and other distinctly American sounds. Print edition only Uncut

Jessica Pratt  Here In The Pitch

Each track is woven with a tapestry of timpani, glockenspiel, baritone saxophone, and flute yet this orchestration never sounds too much retaining a subtlety and cavernous space. It allows her fantastic vocals, vivid couplets, and bittersweet melodies to radiate God Is In The TV

Jessica Pratt  Here In The Pitch

Pratt has long been a consummate texturalist; mining the pop playbook in resourceful ways, she’s now an exemplary tunesmith as well – the result is sublime The Line Of Best Fit

Jessica Pratt  Here In The Pitch

With her best songs yet, the Californian singer’s fourth album could transform her from fringe act to mainstream success The Guardian

Jessica Pratt  Here In The Pitch

Jessica Pratt’s fourth album of hypnagogic folk music hones her mysterious song to its finest point Pitchfork