With 2017’s debut album, Guppy, boasting indie disco floor-filler “Ruby,” New York City’s Charly Bliss reintroduced the pop tunes to post-grunge with great and widely praised effect. A brief and brisk album, bristling with scratchy guitar and thundering drum parts, it introduced the world to Eva Hendricks’ honeyed vocals and contrastingly caustic worldview.

Nilüfer Yanya’s debut album Miss Universe begins with a phone message from the titular character, a fictional health counselor who periodically pops in to recite some postmodern mental-health non-sequiturs, voiced by Yanya herself.

Staggering out of a Brixton blur of warehouse parties and cheap drugs, London’s Fat White Family appeared to be a bunch of sloppy urchins with a penchant for Birthday Party rip-offs; songs like 2014’s “Touch the Leather” and “I Am Mark E Smith” setting out a vaguely shambolic stall of bleak but perhaps humorous, crawling, creeping punk rock.

Hot on the heels off Malibu and Oxnard, comes Ventura the third in California-native Anderson .Paak’s trilogy. His titles may be the SoCal beach towns he loves but the influences he pulls from here return largely to ‘60s Motown and ‘70s Funkadelic.

It might be over a decade (May 2008 to be exact) since A Place to Bury Strangers first unleashed their brutally uncompromising show on the city of Nottingham.

The Big Clock straddles the ridge between comedy and thriller like no other film of the era we’ve seen.

Since their beginnings in league with Los Angeles garage greats Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin, Cory Hanson and his compatriots in Wand proved themselves restless rock inventors.

Unanimously, the music press loves Ty Segall, and writes about him with frequent admiration. It is difficult to say anything new about Segall and his relentless crew after 11 years of enjoyable rock ‘n’ roll releases (too many to count, really).

Originally released as a limited edition vinyl LP for Record Store Day 2019, The Blanck Mass Sessions is a re-work of seven songs from Editors’ 2018 album Violence, and one bonus track, by electronic music producer Benjamin John Power (aka Blanck Mass) that is now seeing a general release in all formats.