Gwenno: Viva Cymru!
Gwenno hasn’t simply crafted a fantastic electro-pop album, one of the best you’ll hear all year. She’s crafted a fantastic electro-pop album on which every track is sung in Welsh (apart from the one that’s in Cornish)
Herbert ‘The Shakes’ (Accidental)
A delicate balance of the danceable and the cerebral from the inimitable Matthew Herbert
Grasscut ‘Everyone Was A Bird’ (Lo Recordings)
Plaintive, plangent, poignant – three words to describe the music of this intriguing duo
Archive ‘Restriction’ (Dangervisit)
Wildly diverse, sharply cinematic and post everything from rock to trip hop
Ryan Teague ‘Block Boundaries’ (Village Green )
It’s billed as a “hallucinogenic Ballardian journey”, but it isn’t quite as hallucinogenic or Ballardian as it might have been
Nicholas Krgovich’ On Sunset’ (Tin Angel)
Exploring the underbelly of Hollywood with tracks inspired by leftfield 80s pop and smooth 90s downtempo music