Jimmy Cliff was one of the first reggae singers to enjoy a hit single in the UK. And one of the outliers who turned Jamaica’s national music into a global sound.

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Samana are a psychedelic-folk duo from rural Wales whose cinematic soundscapes bear comparison to Irish experimentalists Lankum.

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Sex Mask are a young post-punk trio from Melbourne and this song, Blisters, finds them collaborating with another local band, Radio Free Alice.

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Bill Callahan looks back on his life and reflects on the man he has been, and the man he’d like to be, at the age of 58.

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Doomgaze girls Blackwater Holylight blend doom-laden hard rock riffing with walls of psychedelic shoegaze on new song Heavy, Why?

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The Fat White Family return with a career-spanning live album recorded in a single day, led by this new recording of Hits Hits Hits.

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Charli XCX teams up with John Cale on an extraordinary spoken-word collaboration between two musicians born half a century apart.

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Here is a beautiful melange of interesting jazz-adjacent sounds by Romanian pianist Mischa Blanos, a new name to me.

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Lucinda Williams returns at the age of 72 with another state of the nation critique, The World’s Gone Wrong.

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