It all adds up to a genuinely unique collection, one that’s also as effortlessly fun as any other album you’ll hear this year. A beautiful, joyous testament to creativity at its most free-spirited.

A gorgeous and truly hypnotic listen, ‘Somewhere Good’ is a truly original, absolutely heavenly work.

A debut that delivers dance music with wit, warmth, and a refreshingly original vision. ‘NATURE IS HEALING’ is a playlist essential for a hot summer’s day.

It’s a complex trick, but he makes it look effortless – ‘Doctrine Of Love’ is truly a record to swoon over.

Refusing to accept easy answers, the West Coast rapper demands a lot of himself, and his audience – for those willing to spend time with it, ‘Cry Baby’ is a uniquely thrilling experience.

Though the album obviously deals with themes of loss, it remains multidimensional in its approach, and it is a brave and astute reflection on times gone by.

Latto’s ‘Big Mama’ is an impressive album that speaks to her maturity and artistic growth.

‘LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW’ hears Vandal elevate her eclecticism to new heights, with lyrical storytelling that stands politically and socially aware, while embracing the fun of contrasting melodies along the way.

A frenetic burst of sustained creativity, ‘For The Love Of Grace & The Hereafter’ is arresting from the off.

The most moving thing about Vile’s description of his home city is that it is abundant with nuance and free of sugar-coating, delivered with a comforting sense of honesty that makes it feel real.

As a collection of countryside narratives, the album works well, though it does not leave much room to imagine; it allows you to paint every picture in your head.

Shikari’s message of togetherness feels more potent than ever. ‘Lose Your Self’ is a calling to put down your smartphones for just a moment, stand up to the billionaire tech giants running amok, and instead just talk to one another – with empathy, and without ego.

With this album, Grohl takes command of her sound with an evident thrill for how music can be imbued with a spectrum of emotion; and, in turn, ‘Be Sweet To Me’ becomes unforgettable.

Thirteen years was a long time to wait. ‘Inferno’ makes every one of them feel worthwhile.

Kaleidoscopic, swaggering and expansive, ‘Gravity Freeze’ finds Little Barrie operating with renewed focus, turning instinct and space into something precise and immersive, and among their most cohesive work to date.

I recommend this album highly, it is therapeutic, affirming, and eye- opening poetry with wonderfully curated musical backing.

Covering everything from devotion and marriage to grief and death, with instruments ranging from electric guitars to glockenspiels, ‘everyone for ten minutes’ is a bold creation – equal parts solemn and uplifting.

‘388’ is proof of the band’s enduring creativity and their determination to buck the norms. Informed by Jamaican rocksteady and Ethiopian jazz – in addition to their beloved psych and beat records – it shifts their palette while dialling down on their songwriting prowess.

As ambitious and meticulously-composed as one would expect, O’Brien’s latest is a beautiful, serene slab of mercurial art rock that, despite some likeable shorter cuts (‘Solfeggio’ and ‘Thin Places’ offer up heartfelt ambience) soars on the strength of the lengthy tracks that book-end it.

This is an album to get lost in. Lost in the killer melodies, time signatures and rhythms. Lost in the stories but most importantly a place to lose yourself from the grind of work. Do give yourself a great day and give this a play.

That a band with this much already behind them could still arrive here, sounding like they have only just begun, is its own form of mastery. Lend yourself forward. Be with it.

‘Iceman’ is at its most interesting when exploring these conditions and vulnerabilities, but all too often Drake relies on tropes from previous albums to get him over the line, when he should have been trying to burst through the tape.

It’s messy and weird and colourful and completely unhinged, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not beautiful, in its own singular and undeniably innovative manner.

An album that plays true to who MUNA are: inquisitive, bright, and ever-defiant.

There is so much to unpack that it will reward plenty of listens and be on repeat on many stereos over the summer. This is musical joy captured in a record one of the group’s strongest works to date.

The result is an album which moves on from ‘Hex Dealer’ but still provides the exhilarating, electrifying, and quite frankly, mindblowing songs the New York-based quartet are so loved for.

‘IT’S BEEN AWFUL’ might be TDE’s most TDE-sounding project since ‘DAMN.’ and it’s thanks to Rashad and his team cleansing their palette to create something timeless.

Musgraves is gifted at letting the melodrama slip into something sensual and ‘Mexico Honey’, and its neon-lit innuendos, proves that her pen is still razor sharp. .... Her voice is as serene as ever and it rarely complicates her desire to embrace the undefined. If anything, it amplifies it through her day-glo incisiveness.