Luke Abbott - Translate'Translate' is the first solo artist album in six years from Norfolk synthesizer specialist Luke Abbott: a strikingly direct and assured return to the solo music making game following a productive diversion into live improvisation with his experimental jazz trio Szun Waves. At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, these eleven electronic vignettes form a dramatic and undeniably cinematic body of work which functions as a fitting

 Panic Blooms is a fucked up and bleeding account of depression and the shadow side of human frailty

and recorded this

' and 'Sloop John B' (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits

 Hope Downs possesses a robust full-band sound that's all the more impressive considering the band's avoidance of traditional recording studios

'Bahdeni Nami' released by Monkeytown Records

Guests include Norah Jones

perhaps the most "spiritual jazz" leaning track here

AMERICAN HEAD finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled “We’re An American Band

Yorke sings a hymn to his own claustrophobia and insignificance

Today Wilco is considered one of the finest and most exciting touring bands and many of these songs are featured in current set lists and are notable fan favourites

They’re all great in their own way

as well as a new introduction by Jac Holzman