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Mark Knopfler's tenth solo studio album features twelve unhurriedly elegant new songs, with his warm Geordie vocal tone, poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic guitar playing all present and dazzling as ever. It offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond.

Sir Rod Stewart and Jools Holland with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra present the exquisite a 13-track sparkling salute to the timeless songs of the big band years, reignited by two giants of their craft.

The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner's fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody, and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves's silvery vocals. On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her and drains her, and even examines the...

Two-time Grammy Award winner Rickie Lee Jones creates an album that is rooted in the city of New Orleans. It is also the first new music that she has written in over a decade.

Japanese Breakfast's sophomore album is less of a concept album about space exploration so much as it is a mood board come to life. Over the course of twelve tracks, Michelle Zauner explores a sonic landscape of her own design, one that's big enough to contain her influences.