<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>- Aarti Jadu is hard to pin down. It would be kinda played out to say she’s the archetypal restless artist. Sure she’s started her own art-rock five-piece, did an acoustic guitar and Indian folk-classical duo, has re-constructed early 1900’s Australian piano music for sampler and voice, has a drone-singing workshop practice that hires into the wellness industry, has run an all-night ambient sleep-over music festival and regularly does the seemingly-impossible with her four-voice improv.

<p><span><span>- Etran de L'Aïr<span> are the latest in an abundant stream of Tuareg guitar bands to come out of the Sahara Desert in north-West Africa. The family band started gigging in the 90’s, but made their recorded debut in 2018 with an album captured entirely on a mobile phone. </span><em>Agadez</em><span> is their first entry into the world of high-fidelity recording; and it comes out, like a lot of great music from the region, on the Sahel Sounds label.</span></span></span></p>

<p>- The cool dads with cool sons have served three years in the magical animal wilderness and now they’re returning a member lighter. So it would be understandable, or at least excusable, that operating sans a second six string chaos merchant would make Totally Unicorn<strong> </strong>more phlegmatic, right? Well…yes…but also…no. <em>High Spirits//Low Life </em>is most definitely the (now) four piece’s most focused out to date.

<span><em><span><span>- Laurel Hell, </span></span></em></span><span><span><span><span>the fifth album from acclaimed musician and performance artist Mitski, reflects on a turbulent few years. She shields herself -not by crafting fictionalised stories as in previous albums- but by turning to a genre she’s never explored before.</span></span></span></span>