The run-down of this week’s six best releases starts with Someday, Now, on which the signature acoustic-led, sweetly-voiced singer-songwriter fare of Katy J Pearson’s albums Return and Sound of the Morning is transmuted through the desk of electronic producer Nathan Jenkins aka Bullion. After a period of burnout, self-enforced exile from music-making and solo travel,…
The first of this week’s smashers comes from Sprints, whose music – driven by experience, tough political climates and social and economic uncertainty – is honest, often politically charged and authentic. Back Catalogue collects the band’s early work together for the first time. Their 2020 debut single The Cheek won them early support from BBC…
First out of this week’s treasure chest is An Ever Changing View: an expansive, immaculately conceived project that presents trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences. Halsall, who has been hailed as one of the leading figures of the UK jazz renaissance, has never seen himself…