The prog rockers delivered some of their most concise and infectious songwriting without the self-indulgence of The Unheavenly Creatures

The band create sinewy post-punk grooves with layers of vocals, samples and drums in their most fully-realised album

Lenae’s breathy falsetto wields lightness like a superpower in this glimmering sonic galaxy of a debut album

Morby’s seventh album was inspired by sickness and mortality but his elegiac songs focus on life’s transience and joys

Two rappers born 10 years apart mesh well, swapping brooding verses on navigating a bruising industry

Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen swerve from hints of the Kinks to traces of Lou Reed with lyrics of pure youthful dread in this reflective, honest album

The Scottish-Burmese singer evokes history, folk tales and atmospheres in this nicely uncanny set blending electronics and field recordings

Missy Elliott’s former protege has been criminally neglected, as this slept-on album blending everything from gospel to boom-bap shows

The Brooklyn trio conspire to produce an idiosyncratic album that ranges from drum-machine funk to small-hours sublimity