Jeff Tweedy and co’s 13th album bears a close family resemblance to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but with Cate Le Bon in the producer’s chair, it has an appealing wash of left-field weirdness and its lyrics express an older man’s anxieties

Our pick of the year’s finest albums brings American dreaming, teenage dynamism, heartbreak, barbed rap, impetuous indie and beautiful soundscapes

The Welsh musician keeps her distance but enthrals her audience with a gently staccato voice and unsettling new music

Lovely, airy, occasionally rocking songs are underpinned by off-kilter lyrics and seeping isolation on Le Bon’s remarkable album