EBONY BONES FEAT. THE BEIJING PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - NEPHILIM

Ebony Bones' album is an emotionally driven argument of where life in the UK is currently failing. No Black In The Union Jack opens with the Rivers of Blood speech by Enoch Powell, on its 50th anniversary. Tearing into the xenophobic tendencies of the Trump administration and the slow removal of the UK from the EU, Brixton's Bones has turned anger into a bright and rounded track.

Her blend of punk inspired lyrical poetry and big sound production blended with the majestic Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra on tracks Nephilim and Truth Or Treason creates a new style of progressive trip-punk.

Bones has eloquently created a dignified album questioning where hatred and misunderstanding of our fellow man has come from. Truly original. 8/10 RACHEL HOWDLE

POPCAAN - FOREVER

Call off the search, the soundtrack to your summer has arrived. A vitamin D-enriched mood-booster in 17 tracks, Jamaican DJ and singer-songwriter Popcaan offers up a dancehall delight, his contemporary Caribbean approach as addictive as could be. The 29-year-old musician, who has collaborated with the likes of Drake, Jamie xx and Gorillaz, has produced a record that defies you not to dance along. Staying still is not an option while plugged into Popcaan's second album, a follow-up to his 2014 breakthrough Where We Come From.

More than a handful of the songs, including Naked, Foreign Love and Body So Good, focus on beautiful women, passionately and emphatically, and where things venture into perhaps edgier territory, such as on Lef My Gun, the music never flags in energy and peppiness. It's a wide-ranging effort, and yet greater than the sum of its parts, the album working better in one fell swoop.

Even if not a seasoned devotee of the Caribbean genre, this album will strike a pleasing chord with listeners, not least because the influence of dancehall on modern pop music has never been more prevalent than now. 8/10 LUCY MAPSTONE

MEG MYERS - TAKE ME TO THE DISCO

She might want to go to the disco, but it doesn't sound like Meg Myers would enjoy it once she got there - the second full-length from the LA singer-songwriter is much more concerned with introspection and angst than hitting the dancefloor.

Most of the songs have a grungy quiet-verse, loud-chorus dynamic based around throbbing bass and distorted guitar that mostly recalls the Pixies and Nirvana. Like those bands there's also a preponderance of gloomy, introspective lyrics reflected in song titles like Numb, Funeral and Little Black Death. However there are other, more surprising touchstones too. The Death Of Me and Tourniquet's huge drum sound recall the power ballads of the 1980s, while Some People owes a heavy debt to Enya.

It's far from cheerful, and it wouldn't make a suitable soundtrack for a night on the town. But it could certainly suit the hangover the morning after. 6/10 JAMES ROBINSON

THE INTERNET - HIVE MIND

It takes a certain level of confidence to name your genre-defying band after the greatest technological advance of the last century, but The Internet are nothing if not bold.

Fans of the Californian five-piece will be pleased their fourth album, Hive Mind, picks up exactly where Grammy-nominated breakout third record Ego Death left off - meandering bass noodles over funky guitar licks and percussion borrowed from the likes of Jurassic 5 and Aphex Twin.

The soothing, whisper-like vocal performance from frontwoman Syd Tha Kid offers the gloss to this funk-soul-pop-rock-hip-hop hybrid. No other artist is doing it quite like The Internet.

A bit of a slow-burner, but several tracks have an instant toe-tapping power about them. If only they could summon the creative talent to find a suitable end to their tracks instead of simply fading out... 8/10 RYAN HOOPER