Black Country, New Road take a turn on 'Snow Globes' to some classic post-rock-like crescendo drama; J.I.D demonstrates some great flow on ‘Surround Sound’; Sevdaliza announces her new EP with trippy love song ‘High Alone’; Nilüfer Yanya slides through tension on ‘Midnight Sun’; and one that has passed under the radar - Ruth Radelet’s cover of Elliott Smith’s ‘Twilight’.

"Yanya, on her debut album, has shocked her desolate confrontations into some of the most adventurous pop-rock crucibles since Mitski’s 'Puberty 2'. They are catalysts for communal outpouring that spark with adrenaline and anxiety, a mixture of the raw and the refined, her guitar fuzz mingling with tinselly synth glitter and the bluesy disaffection of […]