Various Artists – The Trojan Box

Massive 50th-anniversary set from classic British reggae imprint

Score 9

Paul McCartney – Egypt Station

Beatle Paul is back with a reflective yet vibrant 17th 
solo studio album

Score 7

Paul Weller – True Meanings

A wistful Weller takes stock at 60, with the help of strings and special guests

Score 8

Craig Smith aka Satya Sai Maitreya Kali – Love Is Our Existence

Cache of spirituality and brittle humanity from a tragic figure; liner notes by biographer Mike Stax

Score 8

Tomberlin – At Weddings

Florida native’s sweet but strong, unflinchingly honest first album

Score 8

The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat

Sell out, who? Vinyl reissue for the Friedbergers’ overlooked masterpiece

Score 8

Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow: 50th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set Edition

By the time the Pretty Things psychedelic rock opera S.F. Sorrow limped its way into the new release racks in December 1968, the Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake –…

Score 8

Mark Lanegan & 
Duke Garwood – With Animals

There’s a moment on “My Shadow Life” that encapsulates the humid, prickly atmosphere of With Animals. As a drum machine snares out a steady beat and Mark Lanegan huskily whispers…

Score 8

Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning

Mid-life crises fuel mid-career gem from Americana dreamers

Score 8

David Axelrod – Song Of Innocence

Visionary producer’s solo debut given shiny new makeover

Score 9

Pete Shelley – The Genetic Years

Celebrating Buzzcocks singer’s solo area, swapping 
punk for trailblazing electropop

Score 8

Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake 
The Want Is

More confident second, full of emotional turmoil

Score 8

Dave Evans – The Words In Between

Forgotten Bristol folkie’s delicate, Steve Gunn-approved first

Score 7

Ray Davies – Our Country: Americana Act II

The King Kink seeks closure, theatrically

Score 8

Judee Sill – Songs Of Rapture And Redemption

Vinyl resurrection for transcendental troubadour’s 
Dead Sea Scrolls

Score 9

Israel Nash – Lifted

"Hippie spiritual" LP is a thing of wonder

Score 9

Elephant Micah – Genericana

Joseph O'Connell takes his avant country folk to the water's edge and strips it down

Score 9

Ornette Coleman – The Atlantic Years

Game changing jazz joints

Score 10

Grateful Dead – Anthem Of The Sun

Pioneering live studio hybrid, expanded

Score 7

Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose

Dave Longstreth relaxes. A little

Score 8