Lisa Wright

It’s when Xenya Genovese lets the Freak overtake the lackadaisical Slug that ‘… Big Candles’ is best.

A self-aware skewering of life inside the hype machine, ‘The Jester’ casts Wallice as a smart new kind of indie pop star. Let her entertain you…

A mature record that sounds completely at peace with its place in life.

It’s all in celebration of our bumper new Dec/Jan double issue - out next week!

A bundle of joyful, body positive, sex positive energy, since bursting onto the scene in a flurry of blue hair and booty shaking, Moonchild Sanelly has challenged the status quo. Now, with new album ‘Full Moon’, the South African singer is challenging herself too.

Our annual round-up of all the best gifts for the music lover in your life.

They might regularly be joking, but they’re not a joke. Instead, Josh Law and Ben Sadler are having the silliest fun and turning it into musical success.

Just two songs in, Edinburgh’s Jacob Alon is already delivering the sort of emotionally-flooring, community-fostering gems that cult heroes are made of.

As frontman of TV On The Radio, Tunde Adebimpe spent the first section of the century at the forefront of New York indie cool. With his solo debut, however, he’s aiming to satiate a different kind of need.

Nearly 20 years after first starting out in the industry, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is finally an objectively successful pop star. Is it better? Is it worse? Is she happy? Does any of it even matter? On third Self Esteem album ‘A Complicated Woman’, we find an artist addressing the grey areas, and turning them technicolour.