The Academic - Sitting PrettyIrish indie rock band The Academic release their sophomore album titled Sitting Pretty. Produced by Nick Hodgson (Dua Lipa, Mark Ronsoand), Sitting Pretty is an album about navigating life in your 20s; the uncertainties and the ever shifting sense of self. The album is a statement of the band ready to announce themselves properly, far beyond the Irish neighborhoods that already claim them as hometown heroes.

Calm In The Eye Of The Storm is Canadian folk legend Ken Whiteley's first album in four years and it's a great one

Gather your wits for a dozen dastardly crimes

Black Diamond Heavies is a punk-ass blues duo from the South featuring John Wesley Myers a

shuffle beats

documented and profiled Chopin

inviting comparison in this regard with the recently composed E minor Cello Sonata of Brahms

by then he had returned to his homeland and that year became leader of the court orchestra in Stockholm

Replete with textures and ornaments

Featuring Joe Farrell on tenor saxophone

A dozen roof-raisers from Joliet Jake and Elwood (and let's not forget guys like Steve Cropper in the band)

including the Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang

which he actually composed for viola da gamba and harpsichord