Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

Atlanta art-rockers beguile and confound on deceptively sweet eighth

Score 8

Green River – Dry As A Bone / Rehab Doll

Foundational documents of grunge’s beginnings

Score 7

David Attenborough – My Field Recordings From 
Across The Planet

The naturalist’s rediscovered tapes of indigenous music

The Delines – The Imperial

Portland sextet return from the brink in imperious fettle

Score 8

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

The Coens’ series-turned-movie is a killingly droll triumph

Score 10

Liam Hayes – Mirage Garage

Garage tapes turned into miniature gems: a Plush vision of pop-soul

Score 8

Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Art Ensemble Of Chicago 
And Associated Ensembles

Avant-jazz music’s most charismatic outfit, compiled by ECM

Score 8

Rosali – Trouble Anyway

Philadelphia songwriter’s second LP is full of inventive guitar jams and raw vocal emotion

Score 8

Kate Bush – Remastered In Vinyl I-IV

Four decades’ worth of studio LPs overhauled at 33rpm, plus B-sides, remixes and bonus tracks

Score 8

The Old Man And The Gun

Robert Redford's entertaining last stand

David Bowie – Glastonbury 2000

A blockbuster festival show rescued from exile

Score 8

Jeff Tweedy – Warm

More songs about narcissism and death

Score 8

Meg Baird & 
Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests

Cultish dream weavers and close 
friends (finally) make their debut

Score 8

Brian Eno – Discreet Music / Music For Airports / Music For Films / On Land

More green worlds: new half-speed masters for Eno’s ambient masterpieces

Score 9

Mott The Hoople – Mental Train: 
The Island Years 1969–71

Dude ranch: the ragged rabble that captured Bowie’s imagination

Score 8

The Beatles – The Beatles (‘The White Album’)

From double LP to seven-disc set, complete with outtakes, demos and studio banter

Score 9

Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-3

Glorious avant experiments and krautrock monoliths, with a pop heart

The Other Side Of The Wind

At long last, Orson Welles' final, fragmented film

Score 8

Dead Can Dance – Dionysus

The dynamic duo hit intoxicating form 
on their ninth LP

Score 8

Phosphorescent – C’Est La Vie

Matthew Houck’s candid ninth stretches out

Score 9