40 Clarissa Connelly - World Of Work
Copenhagen based producer/composer's rich voice drives brooding piano-led experiments in Celtic-aligned folk hauntology
39 St Vincent - All Born Screaming
Stepping back into a daze, harsh beats rubbing against vulnerable self-consideration amid nods throughout to previous highs (i.e. not Daddy's Home)
38 Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?
A reckoning with James Smith's self in the wake of lockdown fame with the new aid of strutting post-LCD synths
37 Caroline Says - The Lucky One
Intricate, sometimes countrified folk vulnerability and heart-scouring, tackling the nature of lingering and evoked memories
36 Cheekface - It's Sorted
More original compositions from America's local band, idiosyncratic post-TMBG wryness in the remains of late stage capitalism
35 Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
Alynda Segarra returns to Americana roots and imbues them with nostalgic imagery and hope for something
34 Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
The unstable melodies Holter has made her own blossom even as they settle into something ruminative and meditative, and jazzier
33 Keeley Forsyth - The Hollow
*That* voice pierces even further against her most ethereally foreboding backing yet, almost elemental when big strings and brass appear
32 Anna Erhard - Botanical Garden
Entertainingly wry Courtney Barnett-ish indiepop vignettes with electronic underlining from Swiss-born Berliner
31 Shellac - To All Trains
Steve Albini's last stand is also his band's best album in quite a while - taut, skronkily noisy and with no longform experiments
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