Andy Bell - Pinball WandererRide guitarist and songwriter Andy Bells third solo album pinball wanderer is an otherworldly collection of intergalactic wizardry that mixes psychedelic melodies, Can via The Stone Roses grooves and Arthur Russell style experimental textures. With guest appearances from Dot Allison and Neu! legend Michael Rother on a cover of The Passions peerless post punk classic Im In Love With A German Film Star, it is perfect for both deep listening headphones

the music obsessive inhabits a claustrophobic modern era of instant gratification in which they’re seemingly so spoiled by online options and easy access that transcendence can be paradoxically hard to find in the melee

Scott Fagan's debut album

and both bands were led by strong personalities—Jamie in Mirrors and John in the Eels

It’s a great irony that the band are sculpting their most succinct and tuneful music yet from this potential chaos

Sakamoto continually updates his sound

Fizzing with energy from the get go

will be following up with a more up-beat party album

the band have done it all on their own fiercely DIY terms

at one point or another

Three years since their last album proper

stuck in her apartment—about as far away from the wide-open spaces of Texas as one can possibly get

the combinations of instruments far off the beaten trails of familiar genres