(Ninja Tune)
Ethereal tendencies give way to screamo and shredding on the Singaporean-British songwriter’s third album

(Thirty Tigers)
Rock, jazz, Afrofuturism… the British singer-songwriter is transformed on this record inspired by Chicago’s archive of Black art

(Penny Fiddle)
Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist Elliott and Cairo-based oud virtuoso Elazhary and friends run the gamut from morris dance to classical Arabic traditions

(Forever Living Originals)
Part of the enigmatic London collective, the singer-songwriter’s third album is a balm of cool, dreamy reflections on faith, love and courage

The baroque specialists thrill in a new edition of Mozart’s C minor Mass, while the Spanish string quartet go to the edge with Beethoven, Bartók and more

(BMG)
After this summer’s megahit single, Kylie Minogue remains firmly on the dancefloor – and the 1980s – with this largely irresistible set of disco and R&B cuts

(Out of Your Head Records)
Patricia Brennan and Tomeka Reid’s unique talents are foregrounded in an album that spirals into ambient, post-rock and classical

(Black Butter)
With anaemic music and maudlin lyrics full of staid teen tropes, Bakar blandly tweaks the sensitive male pop singer mould

(Kemosabe/RCA)
There’s a pugilistic force to the rapper’s lyricism as she takes on her diehard fans’ sense of entitlement, but even amid some experimental production, she starts to repeat herself

Hackmann/Boggess/Sinfonia of London/Wilson
(Chandos, two CDs)
John Wilson’s scrupulously prepared recording gives us exactly what the audience would have heard on the musical’s opening night in New York in 1943

(4AD)
The existential conundrums of a cast of sad-sack characters – including a shattering Phoebe Bridgers collaboration – build up in dread and anxiety toward an intense, teeth-baring pay off

(Roc Nation)
A busy six years on from his debut, the US star swings from sacred to profane while celebrating sobriety on an album of hits and misses

(Parlophone)
The interplay between Chrissie Hynde and guitarist James Walbourne goes from strength to strength on the punk survivors’ 12th album

(Dead Oceans)
The Japanese-American singer-songwriter sounds deceptively sweet on this lush, contemplative album largely recorded in Nashville

(Mack Avenue)
A jazz-classical portrait of the 12 star signs, the American jazz great’s suite finds its ideal realisation in Diehl and co’s lovingly performed rendition

The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds excels in Shostakovich’s intimate penultimate symphony, while new music champions Riot Ensemble explore memory, healing and desire

(Nyege Nyege Tapes)
The Angolan producer arrived at his own version of the dance style kuduro after adding layered synths to folk rhythms, and these tracks show his lo-fi ingenuity

(Love Records)
Diddy’s productions remain imaginative across this 24-track album, but he gives us frustratingly little lyricism

Romaniw/Barnett Jones/Murray/Shore/BBCSO/BBC Singers/Andrews
(Resonus)
Smyth’s opera was the first by a woman to be performed at New York’s Met. One hundred and twenty years later this is its first recording

(Dead Oceans)
Playing country-inflected orchestral pop with sardonic wit and deep feeling, Mitski underlines why she’s one of the very best singer-songwriters working today