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Everything but the Kitchen Sink … Nadine Shah. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
Out now
Tyneside alt-rock singer-songwriter Shah has never shied away from exploring big topics, be it
political injustice on 2017’s Holiday Destination or misogyny on 2020’s followup, Kitchen Sink. On
Filthy Underneath, created after battles with PTSD and addiction, Shah lays everything bare, as on
Twenty Things, which charts her time in rehab.

MGMT – Loss of Life
Out now
Having been freaked out by sudden fame following 2007’s debut Oracular Spectacular, Andrew
VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser have edged further and further away from that album’s
festival-slaying, dance-rock sweet spot with each subsequent release. This fifth album finesses
their psych credentials as well as adding touches of prog and folk.

Erika de Casier – Still
Out now
Having branched out into K-pop hitmaking via her work on 2023’s excellent NewJeans single
Super Shy, the Danish singer-songwriter-producer returns with her third album of tactile R&B and
liquid drum’n’bass. Blood Orange, They Hate Change and Shygirl add to that sonic palette as
De Casier charts a relationship’s steady decline.

Allie X – Girl With No Face
Out now
While 2020’s Cape God album focused on organic instrumentation, this playful followup finds
Canadian Alexandra Hughes focusing on big synthpop. Created during lockdown, and self-
produced, it’s an album that channels Hughes’s darker thoughts into perfectly packaged pop – see
recent single Off With Her Tits. MC

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