MUSIC REVIEWS

The best new music to listen to this week

A round-up of our favourite albums and singles, reviewed by Will Hodgkinson and Blanca Schofield

Shed Seven
Shed Seven
The Times

Here are some of the best new albums and tracks our critics have heard over the past week. We’ll update the list regularly, so make sure you save this page. Feel free to join in the conversation in the comments section at the end with your own recommendations of what you’re listening to at the moment.

Shed Seven
A Matter of Time
★★★☆☆
Seemingly confined to the purgatory of 1990s nostalgia events with names like Shiiine On and Indie Daze, Rick Witter and his gang of Britpop survivors are better songwriters than they are generally credited — not exactly changing the world, and certainly wearing influences like the Pixies and the Stone Roses on their sleeves, but melodic, well executed, uplifting and unpretentiously wedded to