Sorry if this comes across as bragging or smugness, but I’ve been sat on a few really excellent albums these past few weeks that, as they’re still officially unannounced, I haven’t been able to talk about here. Thrilled, though, that The Weather Station’s new self-titled album has broken cover in the last couple of days: if you have only time for one song on this list, please make it “Thirty”.

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1 Richard Horowitz – Eros In Arabia (Freedom To Spend)

2 Sudan Archives – Sudan Archives (Stones Throw)

3 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl)

4 Bark Psychosis – Hex (Fire)

5 Wand – Plum (Drag City)

6 Juana Molina – Halo (Crammed Discs)

7 LCD Soundsystem – Call The Police (Columbia)

8 Secret Drum Band – Dynamics (Xray)

9 Torres – Three Futures (4AD)

10 Randy Newman – Dark Matter (Nonesuch)

11 Ka Baird – Sapropelic Pycnic (Drag City)

12 Širom – I Can Be A Clay Snapper (Tak:til)

13 Antibalas – Where The Gods Are In Peace (Daptone)

14 Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger In The Alps (Dead Oceans)

15 The Weather Station – The Weather Station (Paradise Of Bachelors)

16 Rick Deitrick – Gentle Wilderness (Tompkins Square)

17 Rick Deitrick – River Sun River Moon (Tompkins Square)

18 Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes (Freedom To Spend)

19 Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time (Rounder)

20 Monty Adkins – Shadows And Reflections (Cronica)

21 Various Artists – Space, Energy And Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-1988 (Soul Jazz)

22 Acetone – 1992-2001 (Light In The Attic)

23 Amadou & Mariam – La Confusion (Because)

24 Tony Buck – Unearth (Room40)

25 Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real – Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real  (Fantasy)

26 The Odyssey Cult – Volume 1 (Silver Current)

27 Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (Polydor)