Halfway
An Outpost of Promise
Polished, but impassionate third album from Brisbane-based guitar/country band, Halfway
A Certain Ratio
Mind Made Up
Lively and raw-sounding merging of rock, jazz and dub in first album in over a decade from former Factory Records act, A Certain Ratio
Down Fi
America Now
Despairingly powerful and angry debut album from the Down Fi, the current band of Craig Bell, the bassist with the influential Rocket From the Tombs
Josephine Foster
Graphic as a Star
Sparse and naturalistic latest album from folk musician Josephine Foster, who has set to music twenty six of the poems of nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson
Album Leaf
A Chorus of Storytellers
Expansive-sounding pop on first rate fifth album from Californian act The Album Leaf, the first to be recorded as a group rather than as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle
Megafaun
Gather, Form and Fly
Spontaneous and joyful back porch hymns and work songs on elegiac second album from North Carolina-based trio, Megafaun
Andy Nice
The Secrets of Me
Meditative seven-track debut mini-album from cellist Andy Nice, who has worked Orbital, Cradle of Filth, Instrumental, Luke Haines’ Baader Meinhof and Tindersticks
Implosion Quintet
The Future Sound of Yesterday
Kaleidoscopic and highly impressive debut album from the largely instrumental Implosion Quintet, the project of British-born but Norwegian-based musician, James Baker