Sharon O'Connell

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Purple Bird

Effortless charm on his long-time-coming “Nashville record”

Mark Lanegan Band – Bubblegum XX

Forty-track anniversary boxset expands on the source LP’s story

The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru Me

Storied indie-rock duo’s first full-length in 25 years

Heldon – Electronique Guerilla (reissue, 1974)

Limited-edition LP marks 50th year of French space-rock debut

Scott Fagan – South Atlantic Blues (reissue, 1968)

Appealingly oddball first from a star forever in waiting

Brittany Howard – What Now

Unguarded emotion and bolder sonic invention on her solo second

Daniel Villarreal – Lados B

Second from the polymath Panamanian drummer

The Runaways – Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin 1976–1978

Nearly 50 years on, their first complete boxset

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You

Perfectly pitched charmer with a concerned core; Louisville locals assist

Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings

Buffalo native’s rhapsodic, sonically expanded third, with a tragic sting in its tail
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