Mark Cooper

The melodic gift and residual optimism ultimately carry the day aided by the canny ear for a guitar riff that characterised Wings.

Girl from Nowhere wrestles with her demons and comes out on top.

East Texan singer-songwriter re-imagines classic country as confessional dream-pop.

A deceptively simple set of songs that manage to explore his Southern roots while sounding as if they've always been around.

Confirm Mumford & Sons are back in business.

Country-rock queen smells the sulphur; proffers shelter from the storm.

Blood and birds thread menacingly through these often-cruel songs but again and again, Ellis’s choruses suddenly soar heavenward, epiphanies torn from an unblinking heart.

Fearless singer-songwriter calls it as she sees it in dramatic ninth solo outing.

Choruses swell gorgeously but unpredictably out of the continual wordplay and there's occasional moments of musical reverie.

Working '80s influences like Sade and Loose Ends into highly textured romantic anthems set in a London town shimmering in high summer. Stacked vocals, keyboards and old-school synths underscore the plentiful solos.

Somehow, he and producer Jake Davis have conjured an utterly compelling account of Tyler's lurching mental health.

Bluegrass at its most refined yet existential, as old firm stick and twist for seventh studio outing.