(EMI)
Eight years on from their last album, the Australian duo’s fabulist nostalgia-pop is a triumph of feeling over artifice

(10 Summers/BMG)
The fourth album from Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us producer features cloying love songs, odes to Mom and thanks to God

(Unsound)
This searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forest

(Jagjaguwar)
The Canadian indie-garage-rockers take the mickey out of pop, punk and the stories we tell ourselves, but strong feeling outweighs the cynicism

(10k Projects/Capitol)
The US rapper’s subject matter is lightweight and this debut album only lasts 23 minutes, but funny, snotty lines abound and the music is often viscerally exciting

Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Francis
(CPO)
The music is earnestly motivic and the scoring dense and dark

BBC Philharmonic/Mena
(Chandos)
Juanjo Mena brings out the flair for instrumental colour in Roberto Gerhard’s early works

(Third Man Records)
Handed out to customers at his record shop in an unmarked sleeve, White’s latest has been bootlegged online. Every one of his fans needs to track down this uncut gem

Black Dyke Band/John Wilson
(Chandos)
From his film scores to brass classics, the composer and former BBC music director’s often overlooked work is celebrated by Yorkshire’s finest

(High Top Mountain)
Misfit American country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson adopts an ironic pseudonym for this deeply emotional mix of honky-tonk and bluesy guitar

Rose Wollman/Dror Baitel
(SBOV Music)
Pioneering women are the focus in this characterful collaboration between viola player Rose Wollman and pianist Dror Baitel

(Polydor)
The Oxford four-piece follow their global hit Heat Waves with a painstakingly inoffensive fourth album that’s all surface

(Loma Vista)
The Florida rapper swaps the introspection of his last album for a charismatic, cash- and firearms-obsessed mixtape

(BMG)
The punk-metal duo formerly known as Slaves offer sandpaper vocals, spine-tingling lyrics and sharp satire on their fiery fourth album

(Imaginary Animals)
The Turkish-born, New York-based pianist’s new album uses the influence of Satie and Glass to respond to the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria

Eighth Blackbird
(Cedille)
David Lang has created a freewheeling concert/lecture mashup based on a 1926 Gertrude Stein lecture and ushered into being by the imperious Eighth Blackbird

(Polydor)
The British band’s fourth album smooshes interesting influences into pleasant homogeneity that won’t wash in today’s personality-led pop world

(Sony)
The south Londoner follows up on viral hit Go with an album of anthemic introspection

(Gondwana)
Drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa trade grooves and plaintive melodies to create satisfyingly complex mood music

(Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
The return of the rapper’s nihilistic alter ego makes his 12th album feel like a confused, conflicted attempt to recreate his 00s success – his flow is perfect as ever, but he can no longer provoke true outrage