50 Lip Critic - Hex Dealer
Intense 32 minutes of full-on New York electro-dance-punk, like DFA's circuits overheating
49 New Starts - More Break-Up Songs
Darren Hayman's new band in the long shadow of Hefner, all Velvets chug, power-pop dynamics and map-of-the-heart lyrics
48 Isobel Campbell - Bow To Love
Fleabitten queen of the hushed reckons with the modern world in low-key dream-folk tones
47 Drahla - angeltape
Leeds abstract art-rockers return after five years still embracing the deadpan angular instability
46 TORRES - What an enormous room
And Mackenzie Scott, having settled into herself at last, is going to fill it with chunky alt-rock that veers just left of centre
45 Magana - Teeth
Jeni Magana steps away from backing Mitski live to imbue her "witchy rock" with electronic and orchestral elements and self-reckoning
44 Hello Mary - Emita Ox
Intricate 90s college rock throwbacks dissolving into and evolving through noise and dissonance
43 MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Drily literate clssic country-rock character pieces and modernist guitar heroics
42 Nightshift - Homosapien
Shifting Glaswegians embrace swooning, shifting, deliberately awkward slackerdom and the prospect of hope in darkness
41 mui zyu - nothing or something to die for
Eva Liu's second solo album approaches the void from several angles, one moment reflective ambient, the next detuned lo-fi pop
