White Flowers - Day By DayFor songwriting duo Joey Cobb and Katie Drew of White Flowers, one of the most exciting young bands in the UK right now, it was only on leaving London to return to their native Preston that the dark hued dreampop of their debut album, Day By Day, began to crystalize. "Theres something uniquely bleak about the North, says Joey, speaking from the abandoned textile mill that White Flowers call home, but in that bleakness theres a certain beauty. The pair

The experience of identifying as intersex informs the album on levels both sonic and thematic

That desire fuelled the title track

these members became one of the best psychedelic cumbia bands ever: Juaneco y Su Combo

The songs include his updated Lookin' For A Leader - 2020

languorous Afro jam lifted from a rare Polydor 45 and juju legend Ebenezer Obey cooks up a lilting

Sónar (Spain)

Like several of Mitchell’s past albums

Larry’s Rebels - Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Special mention for drummer Harvey Mason

Pressed on colour vinyl for the first time (green

and two weeks later it looks like it never happened… That’s kind of amazing

Their songs serve as openings -- carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning