Tre Nash & Jenesis have done something quietly radical with "In Tandem": they've made a breakup record and a love letter simultaneously, and somehow neither cancels the other out.

Redemption stories are cheap in pop music. Everybody claims one, and most of them boil down to a stint in rehab and a new haircut. Daye Jack's version is stranger and more interesting than that, and it shows in the grain of this record.

Weather, as a metaphor for the times, has been worked to exhaustion by lesser songwriters and lazier sleeve notes. Donelli A.I. Ensemble picks the metaphor back up, dusts it off, and finds it still has teeth. *Previsioni del Tempo Incerto* — "Uncertain Weather Forecasts" — arrives as eighteen tracks that refuse to sit still, sliding between jazz, prog and world music with the confidence of a band that has stopped worrying about which shelf a record store will file them under.

Davide Ungaro and Erika Neri have spent the best part of a year doling this record out one single at a time, and the wait turns out to have been entirely worth it. By the time "Mondo Disco" struts in halfway through side two, it's clear this is a band who arrived at their debut album already knowing exactly who they are — a rare and rather lovely thing.

There is a particular kind of courage required to write a pop song that smiles at you while quietly breaking your heart. Emili — born Emili Milosevska, Sydney-raised, London-sharpened — has made it her entire artistic signature, and on *House Wife*, her 2024 single, she deploys it with a precision that feels both casual and deeply considered. This is a two-minute-fifty-three-second object lesson in the art of the concealed wound.

**The French artist delivers a shot of pure solar energy that bypasses the brain entirely and goes straight to the feet** Funk, at its most honest, has never been about sophistication. It is about surrender — the moment your body overrules your better judgment and you find yourself dancing in a supermarket aisle, or nodding so aggressively on the Tube that strangers begin to worry. Audren, the Paris-based indie-soul polymath, understands this covenant between music and muscle memory with an almost frightening clarity, and *We Want Funkey!* is the document of that understanding rendered in four gloriously irresistible minutes.

Perth has never been mistaken for Memphis or Muscle Shoals, but Paul Frazer Clarke — a composer with more than three decades of accumulated scar tissue and hard-won craft — seems entirely untroubled by geography. His new single *Visions of a Changing World*, lifted from the 2024 album *Backstories From A Soundtrack To Life*, arrives with the unhurried confidence of a musician who has absolutely nothing left to prove, and is precisely more interesting for it.

The Silva Lining Band have never been ones for restraint, and their latest offering makes no apologies for excess. "One Day at a Time" arrives as a gloriously messy contradiction: a song about romantic calamity dressed in the most jubilant musical clothing imaginable. Where lesser artists might wallow in self-pity or reach for the minor key, this Anglo-Portuguese trio choose instead to throw a party over the wreckage of their protagonist's dignity.

Twenty years into their collective journey, Toni Armetta's Threegonos have emerged with "Questioni di Pensiero" – a recording that demonstrates how contemporary jazz can embrace global traditions without sacrificing its essential character. This Italian sextet's second album reveals a mature ensemble unafraid to let their Mediterranean roots inform their musical wanderings across continents and cultures.

The nine-piece band Secondhand Dreamcar is based in Edmonton, Canada where they write and record their own songs full of hope and simple human joy. 'Eight of Spades' is their debut single was released on June 28, and this song speaks of the great talent of this musical group.