The first thing that hits you when listening to The Blinders' second album Fantasies of a Stay at Home Psychopath is the self-confidence, the sheer unapologetic, intoxicating arrogance – Manchester has known nothing like it since Zlatan Ibrahimovic left Old Trafford.
Occupying the misty centre of the post-rock/post-classical Venn diagram, London-based singer songwriter A.A. Williams channels aspects of both sounds on her debut LP Forever Blue, which follows a self-titled EP and a collaboration with Japanese band MONO released last year.
