ROB ALDRIDGE & THE PROPONENTS – Mind Over Manners
A very good, soulful “southern rock” album by an exciting relatively new band loosely associated with the wider Drive-By Truckers/Jason Isbell universe. (8)
BEIRUT – Artifacts: The Collected EP’s, Early Works & B-Sides
A double album of odds and sods, also serving as a career snapshot for a guy who started out playing exciting Balkan-influenced indie pop and ended up in somewhat generic electronica doodling. (7)
BRENT COBB –And Now, Let’s Turn To Page…
Country singer goes Gospel, which is where country music’s rooted anyway. (7)
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL - Good And Green Again
Folkie’s fourth album offers some magical acoustic moments. (8)
IMARHAN – Aboogi
Twareg desert rockers take the baton from Tinariwen and run with it. (8)
ANAÏS MITCHELL – Anaïs Mitchell
“Young Man In America” is a 21st century desert island disc and it’s hard to compete against that, but folk singer/songwriter’s new album comes close. (8)
SPITFIRE – Denial To Fall
Greek metal veterans still at it and solid. (7)
RILEY WALKER – So Certain EP
The guy’s unstoppable, this is like his 37th release in the past 12 months or something, and it’s a proggy EP in the style of last year’s excellent early Genesis rip-off “Course In Fable”. (8)
THE WHITMORE SISTERS – Ghost Stories
Americana sibling duo offer some great tunes and even better vocal harmonies. Not to be confused with the Secret Sisters, although you’d be forgiven for falling into that trap. (8)
YARD ACT – The Overload
Riding 2021’s wave of excellent British post-punk/talk-singing bands and throwing in a health dose of Sleaford Mods wit and Arctic Monkeys hooks, Yard Act have created a winner debut that you’ll see on many year-end lists come December. (9)
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