Laetitia Sadier releases her first official solo album after a bazillion music-making years on September 20. If ‘One Million Year Trip’ is anything to go by, the ground has been laid for a sturdy rather than revolutionary album, but it leaves a lasting impression.

With A Sunny Day In Glasgow preparing to give away a whole new album for nothing, magnificent freebie track ‘Drink drank drunk’ can be treated as merely an entrée to the impending feast, crashing and jangling with expert precision.

Polly & The Billets Doux make the kind of music that draws upon a varied musical canon – jazz and blues especially – and moulds it into something fresh yet warm and familiar. Freebie track ‘To Be A Fighter’ provides a neat opportunity to belatedly discover them.

With the state of Maine’s premier freak-folk duo Arborea poised to make their return to the UK next week, it’s a perfect time to acquaint yourself with brand new song ‘Careless Love’. We’re rather infatuated with it.

Brooklyn’s Scary Mansion are far from the first to cover Cyndi Lauper’s enduring 1983 hit ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, but no one else has reinvented the feelgood skirt-swisher to sound quite so fragile.