Lambchop – This (Is What I Wanted 
To Tell You)

Kurt Wagner revisits his new-found digital dreamland

Score 8

Under The Silver Lake

Geeky neo-noir in an Altman vein

Score 7

Stephen Malkmus – Groove Denied

Digital sound forever! Malkmus’ solo synth delight

Score 8

Paul Weller – Other Aspects: Live At The Royal Festival Hall

His ever changing moods. Strings attached

Score 7

Royal Trux – White Stuff

The narcotic duo return

Score 8

Julia Jacklin – Crushing

Nothing breaks like a heart – as the Australian singer-songwriter’s second LP proves

Score 8

Sleaford Mods – Eton Alive

Isolation, consumption and Eton are the targets of the abrasive post-punk duo’s latest LP

Score 8

Various Artists – Kankyō Ongaku

Mellow ’80s synth vibes finally liberated from the health-resort ghetto

Score 9

The Specials – Encore

Back in the studio for the first time since they reformed

Score 7

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri

Six strings good, four strings better on Malian virtuoso’s fifth

Score 8

Beirut – Gallipoli

The Wes Anderson of indie-folk expands his European horizons

Score 8

Lorelle Meets 
The Obsolete – De Facto

Mexican duo excel themselves

Score 8

Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions 
Of Django Reinhardt

A jazz guitar great, judiciously compiled, heard in full bloom

Score 9

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón's gripping Mexican domestic drama

Score 8

William Tyler – Goes West

Guitar alchemist’s dulcet fourth sees 
him uprooted and unplugged

Score 8

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