The Union is a mutual display of affection from both sides - Elton and Bernie's nostalgic tales are infused with gospel, rollicking country and rock 'n' roll, while Leon's croaky voice adds southern authenticity.

It’s great when I’m listening to it, but nothing really jumps out and lodges itself in my brain - perhaps harshly, it all feels like a puddle of slightly warm water where an ice cube used to be.

Darling Arithmetic finds O'Brien continuing to fashion his sound in this cherished manner, the tales he spawns both introspective and impressive.

Was it worth that wait? That’s open to debate, but it’s definitely not an album you listen to and wish they hadn’t bothered.

On ‘Jupiter’, Nao has bottled liberation and turned it into a rich tapestry of sound, a sonic explosion of curiosity and play.

González hasn’t changed much since his 2003 debut ‘Veneer’ but his fans won’t be disappointed by his new project and will surely be glad to have new songs after waiting six years.

Snõõper have succeeded in creating an album that celebrates the joy of live music, while not sacrificing any of their energy, originality or fun in the process.

Adele is sincere, poignant and affecting throughout; the emotive 'Someone Like You' closes the album magnificently.

A dazzling mix of shoegaze, lo-fi psychedelia and fuzzy, mid-period Sonic Youth.

A curious state of affairs on the surface, this is no empty exercise in muso accomplishment. Lidell’s voice is a thing of wonder, a match for or indeed bettering many of R‘n’B’s mainstream performers.

While the playing is never less than exceptional – displaying Mark Knopfler’s assured rhythmic sensibility, and his lyrical lead styles – the arrangements on ‘One Deep River’ can sometimes falter.

Thanks to Black Milk’s production this is their most accomplished album since 1995's ‘Temple Of Boom’.

Clark's biggest triumph is in managing to splice his previous influences together in a cohesive and pleasing manner.

It’s a dense work that’ll be discovered thriving equally happily in the niche of teenage bedrooms as in underground cults and a nebulous haze of mushrooming Mixcloud communiqués extending over the horizon.

With a sound centred around a tunable percussion instrument called a hang (think mellow steel drum), skittering jazz drums, saxophone and loops, the quartet, who live Monkees-like in a shared house in East London, serve up a fresh vision of jazz, drawing sounds from across the globe.

Everything here is gorgeously sung and this woozy, gently uplifting collection of songs is pretty close to perfect.

On occasions it’s a disappointing walk through ‘hardcore by numbers’ routines peppered in clever imagery and breakneck instrumentation.

If imperfection is what Baauer was looking for, then he has succeeded; but that doesn’t resolve the disappointment with what could have been a brilliant album.

It’s overwhelming in its grandiosity, and though it has its virtues, Foxygen’s latest LP is best enjoyed as a bite-size hors d'oeuvre instead of a main course.

This album signifies a moment for UK jazz but more importantly this a moment for Kamaal Williams.

This occasionally uneven, frequently thrilling, plunge into the past proves that sometimes the only way we can go forwards is by looking back.

A step beyond 2022’s ‘Superache’, ‘Found Heaven’ stretches Conan Gray’s pop template once more. Often emotive, it lingers on his truth while relishing synth-pop immediacy.

‘Bloom’ is not a weak album by any stretch. The title aspires to present an album and a band that are maturing and flourishing musically, however it is difficult not to feel somewhat underwhelmed by the final result.

No one has travelled further than the band themselves. Yet it’s a journey worth savouring, with the renewed duo seemingly capable of soaking up all that life can throw at them.

'Algiers' is a Calexico album unlike any other. More forceful, immediate and polished, whilst still possessing the bewitching musical interplays of old.

Meh. It's alright, but I'm like... I'm like a bit bored, actually.

They're still settling in at the start line, prescribing rose-tinted glasses that could very well divide listeners.

The pervasive dreaminess and charm ultimately results in an absorbing debut album.