Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Both timeless and absolutely current.

Nai Harvest - Hairball

Next time out, a bit of variety wouldn’t go amiss.

Villagers - Darling Arithmetic

Likeable if unexceptional.

Stornoway - Bonxie

This is indie-folk for the Waitrose generation.

The Staves - If I Was

Exquisitely sung indie folk harmonies with added new brainpower

Duke Special - Look Out Machines

This is altogether more personal, dreamlike and surprising.

Flowers - Do what you want to, it's what you should do

Pick Flowers- it’s what you should do!

Addison's Uncle - I'd Like To Tell A Story

A fine album from another decent local band that promises much.

Father John Mistry - I Love You Honeybear

This has the rock press in raptures. I don’t get it.

Champs - Vamala

Pick yourselves up, Champs, and try again.

Elevant - Dreamface

Addison's Uncle - I'd Like To Tell A Story

Local band deliver a promising debut.

Chrome and Illinspired - The All C n I

This is one funky album.

Meghan Trainor - Title

Forgive me, whilst I 'bang dem sticks' against my head

Kodaline - Coming Up For Air

The mix of old and new just don’t seem to mesh well

Peace - Happy People

Something is happening here

Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

Nothing more than a car wreck you simply cannot look away from

Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space

Like eating jam roly-poly without the custard.

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - Kitty, Daisy and Lewis III

A crowning glory.

Gaz Coombes - Matador

Gorgeous, masterful, confessional, and uplifting.

The Unthanks - Mount The Air

The Unthanks confound this reviewer's expectations and produce the natural successor to Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden.

The Grazing Saints - Selene

Local band The Grazing Saints turn in a debut of swamp-psyche-blues-rock bordering on greatness.

Atari Teenage Riot - Reset

For all their efforts to sound like the noise of the future, Atari Teenage Riot just end up sounding like a dated noise.

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

In short it’s great. Not in a typical Manson, media-provoking comment-on-the-world kind of way, but in a decent album kind of way.

Darwin & The Dinosaur - A Thousand Ships

Decent debut from a local band that deserves our support.

Rats As Big As Dogs - Attract

Third EP from BSE Rock City's RABAD.

Grin By Growl - Foreward For Tune

Promising stuff from another promising young band from Norwich

Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance

Ultimately, this album is written for their fans

Funeral for a Friend - Chapter and Verse

Hard-hitting, high energy and thoroughly enjoyable

Rae Morris - Unguarded

Girl In A Thunderbolt - Own Your Bones

Following a brief hiatus, this is a triumphant return from Norwich's own Girl In A Thunderbolt.

Neil Young - Storytone Reprise

Two discs, two distinctly different interpretations of the same set of songs.

Best of 2021

Here are some of their personal thoughts on what music and much more looked like in 2021.

Superfood - Don't Say That

Well crafted but uninspired and uninspiring Britpop pastiche.

Jon Hopkins - Asleep Versions EP

More fascinating folktronica from Jon Hopkins

Broads - Care & Handling EP

Intriguing stuff from a local chap

Hookworms - The Hum

Hang on, this could get trippy.

Daisy Victoria - Nobody Dies EP

A truly complex talent whose fame is already set to spread beyond our Norfolk borders.

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

It's still very much a Foo Fighters Rock Album

Devo - Miracle Witness Hour

This is de-evolution in action