Banbury-based multi-instrumentalist Music by Jeremy steps into the open air on "Scenes from a Well Worn Path (Side Three)", the third instalment of an ambitious 24-track, four-part double album. After spending his first two volumes examining insular, private spaces, the solo songwriter directs his gaze toward the town square. Working from a home studio with an acoustic guitar, expressive fretless bass lines, and custom...

Listening to the new album from The Bateleurs, "A Light In The Darkness", is like finding a perfectly worn leather jacket in a forgotten wardrobe. Not one from London or Los Angeles, mind you, but one discovered in a dusty Lisbon alley, smelling faintly of sea salt and old cigarettes. It fits perfectly, but it carries the shape and the stories of someone else's...