Rock music has always been about leaving. Elvis left Tupelo, Bowie left Earth, and every teenager with a guitar and a grievance has left their parents' semi-detached for somewhere louder. Patrick Doval takes the oldest rock and roll impulse and follows it to its logical conclusion: he builds a rocket, climbs in, and goes to the moon. It is magnificently daft, and it is also rather wonderful.

There is a particular kind of record that can only be made by someone with nobody left to impress. It arrives without a publicist's gloss or a studio's expensive varnish, just a person, a few microphones and an ache that needs somewhere to go. "Never Had," the new single from Cheltenham's Charlie Sly, is exactly that record, and it is quietly, stubbornly wonderful.

Somewhere in Dublin, behind a door nobody has been invited through, a person or persons unknown are bashing a lump of metal into submission. The result is "Nail The Noise," a single that arrives at the pulse of a pub brawl and the posture of a seminar, and which settles every argument it starts by getting the whole room to dance.

Country music has always known that the best songs are written from the kitchen table, not the stage. Hank Williams knew it, Loretta Lynn built a career on it, and Trail Hawk's "Confused" belongs to that line. It arrives from a home studio in Frankfort, Kentucky, with no polish to hide behind, and it is better for it.