CONTENT: 20 extraordinary tracks from Afrobeat, 60s soul psychedelia ('The 5th Dimension') and UK grime.

A musical opera that encompasses the complexities of modernity, mixing art / baroque pop with sound elements from Motown from the 60s. It would also be the ideal “Fantasia” soundtrack, if Ralph Bakshi had directed it.

The Windmill Brixton scene is well commanded by black midi, a band from another planet. That's a fact. Their new album is defined in its title, Cavalcade, a procession on foot, on horseback or in vehicles, where the participants do not travel in formation. That is exactly what you are going to hear. Medieval post-rock or Pollock in the Middle Ages. Combination of post-rock, avant garde, jazz and even a bit of bossa-nova and Renaissance music.

Amazing!

After 9 months living in a Buddhist monastic retreat, David John Morris combined Donovan's poetic melodies and Talk Talk's sensible minimalism to created an album that evokes inner and outer landscapes of spiritualism.

"Daddy's Home" is gritty and soulful, just like the 70s. It’s about the complexities of life, its confrontations, its falls and its rebirths.

Everything I love can be heard in this record: naturalism and experimentalism. MAGNIFICENT!

Gospel and the "Madchester" sound enhance Iceage's disruptive music in a grand and powerful HURRAH!

A dance in Eden in the middle of the Apocalypse!

Teenage Fanclub still manages to create songs with great melodies and evocative lyrics, but you can feel that they continue in their safety zone and there are gaps where you have a little sense of the absence of Gerard Love.

Arooj's voice is the key part of this subtle and meditative record, that transcend language and mesmerize you until the end.

A short overture of warm-folksy melodies combine with a juvenile-hardcore aggression. Imagine Neutral Milk Hotel meeting Weezer's Pinkerton.

At the beginning, the proposal is very britpopish (which is great), and then it transforms into something gloomier and industrial. I really hope these two worlds evolve in the future. Great presentation, Courting is on my radar.

Evocations of nightscapes or music for sleepwalkers —cryptic, reclusive and unpredictable; a creepy feeling of walking through a mall at night, or losing yourself in front of midnight television.

Incredible record! These are solid and gloomy musical passages that engage with surreal, quirky, emotional, and inevitably funny lyrics. The words are claustrophobically dry but wonderfully clear!

A great debut, full of electronic instrumental landscapes that accompany lyrics about loss, nostalgia and despair recited by David Belfare, without hiding his Irish accent that becomes a fundamental part to turn this album into something intimate and unrepeatable.

A clear and experimental leitmotif, in 9 movements. All the musical details that both classical and electronic instruments have are subtly unwrapped through the ears until they reach the brain and the heart: it makes you imagine; it makes you feel.

It’s the most polish material from Annie Sachs, but without losing her previous works essence. This record is a minimalistic dream pop loop or a contemporary wall of sound.

The only great thing about the digital age is that it gives you the opportunity to discover mysterious materials that in other times would have been impossible to do so. Parannoul falls into this category. 'To See the Next Part of the Dream' is nostalgic, evoking the sounds of Sunny Day Real Sate and Ride, even the Japanese band Cornelius. I could even say it would fit perfectly on a release from the late 90s or early 2000s.

A groovy record that slowly dive into the works of a 60s classic soundtrack —from Burt Bacharach or Henry Mancini, even a Brian Wilson's experimental mood— and then arises with an Afrobeat jazz fusion phase just to made the experience more strange and enjoyable.

The key word in Arab Strap's music is tragicomedy (melancholic melodies with a bit of satire around it), and it's perfect to describe their comeback, and I really like this. 'As Days Get Dark' —their new album— is a great gloomy universe, libertine and all expressed with a mocking and sarcastic depth.