By Will McGuirk

Sometimes I think there’s way less that seven days in a week. No matter how much we endeavour to slow down, to catch that moment time just seems to fly past, slippery as an eel it is. So catch these records while you can - new drops from our spotlit artists but also Dream Unending, Doom’s Children, Bastille, Black Country, New Road and Korn.

The Kingston-founded Toronto based alt-folk quartet Wild Rivers have their sophomore ‘Sidelines’ synced up and its all full of heart heating harmonies, billowy builds, and awash with swashes of classic singer-songwriterly James Taylor like softness.

Nothing Taylor made to Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon’s ‘Pompeii’. Its less Fire and Rain and more Sound and Vision. There’s a crooked coolness to it, more the triumphant Berlin than the tragic city of the title.

Billy Bragg trumps his one man Clash moniker with album number 13, Clash who? Bragg is still marching on and on his travels he has picked up a few tips from his collaborations of the past years and so ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ is thus less solo and more Wilco sounding. Lots of additions to his sound, he even has his son join him on a track. And while the songs are overall slower and softer Billy is not by any measure getting any mellower. He is still an angry young man just older.