The new album, West End Girl, which title is inspired by her acting stints on the London stage, is a raw, confessional contents informed by the breakdown of her marriage from David Harbour.
Some felt the image was demeaning to women, while others saw it as satire. But it achieved its primary aim in whipping up a media storm reminiscent of the ones created by Madonna in her heyday
The singer is still in thrall to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. But the last year has also seen her step out of her comfort zone to work with Beabadoobee and Noah Kahan
Dan Auerbach's blistering guitar wouldn't have sounded out of place on 2010's Brothers or 2011's El Camino. But this is still a group going for the commercial jugular.
North Carolina girl Rapp has yet to secure a UK Top 40 single, but such is her surging popularity that she's already booked into arenas for a British tour next spring.
Titled after the American English word for full stop (and stylised as a pink dot on the album sleeve), the new LP is a return to the carefree Kesha of old: with humorous lyrics and a love of the trash aesthetic.
Formed at music college by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, they were clearly talented but also, as that name suggests, a bit silly. Four years on, they are a more serious proposition.
I Quit is ostensibly a break-up record, but even when Danielle, Este and Alana sing about heartache, they find it hard to stop the sun from breaking through.