Laura Marling - Semper FeminaSemper Femina is Laura Marlings sixth album an intimate, devoted exploration of femininity and female relationships, and among her finest work to date. Written largely on the tour that followed 2015s Short Movie and recorded in Los Angeles with production from Blake Mills, it is at once a distinctive and musically compelling collection of songs, run through with Marlings fierce intelligence; a keen, beautiful and unparalleled take on womanhood. Vinyl

a wedding party

I can see the colours

quaint portraits of their retro-futurism

Calico Review shows a band that's grown confident enough in its own style to reflect the perspectives of each member

Highlights include the optimistic dazzle of ‰Û÷Diamonds In Cups‰۪

played loud on cheap white earphones

Classic set of horns instrumentals from 1976

Mystery Jets were always the hardest to pin down

The album was recorded by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and engineer Chris Chandler at Audible Alchemy in Portland

‰ÛÏTim Cohen: the man behind the beard

Hamish Kilgour has never released a proper solo album of his own

Newell had little recollection of even sending the songs to his friends at JAR