Running Tracks is the debut solo album from John Newton, drummer/ vocalist of Crystal Palace two piece JOHN, under the guise Total Wkts. It's an album caught between contrasts, from the heady roads supporting Idles around the world, to returning to his family home in the rural South West when global lockdown came, and an income from live music all but a dream. Bird song is caught between pounding drum beats, singular bass swells and heavy intonation between vocal lines. Don't underestimate it.

4 September Bill Callahan Gold Record

We're used to waiting a long time for Bill Callahan albums to come along; it doesn't feel right that Gold Record is his second full length in as many years. This is his version of Future Islands' Singles - an album so sure of itself, it proudly comes out telling you that each of its ten tracks could be standalone gold. He's right - these are songs that hold some earthly gravity to them, sung secrets that inhabit the whole room, making you wonder why you couldn't come up with sentences this simple and this true, let alone music.

28 August Girls In Synthesis Now Here's An Echo From Your Future

Fabled experimental punk label Harbinger Sound have mined a gem with this album, from deep under a bedrock of heavy, bludgeoning, groove-laden post-punk and two tone. The debut from Girls in Synthesis is everything you'll need on a wet weekend - heavy riffs and gnarling political sentiment. Very Limited Edition Grey Vinyl LPs and CDs come with a signed jacket, exclusive to Recordstore, running low.

21 August Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where The World Once Was

Bright Eyes' first new album in almost a decade is everything we could've asked for, as Conor Oberst's neverending creativity comes back to its original outlet. Sonically bigger than ever before, Bright Eyes' lyrical dexterities carves out the existential depths of humanity within their surreal din. It's a rollercoaster. Or as Uncut Magazine put in their 9/10 review: "Unironically majestic set pieces that offer a ray of hope as this wild ride ends."