Megan Moroney - Am I Okay?

The title song's a killer, first up on the album, fizzily euphoric with just an undercurrent of melancholy. There are some other good moments here too, and if the glossy country-ish sound isn't that distinctive, well there's a reason why I like it so much.

Ellen van Neerven - Personal Score

Personal Score feels all of a piece, unified by the way van Neerven writes the connections between Country, their own story and the other through-lines of sport (football ie soccer), identity, culture and colonisation. They're a wonderful writer, in this form as in their short fiction and poetry, which has struck me whenever I encountered it - and memorable in person also. It's an illuminating and engaging book, filled with ideas, passages and connections that I want to retain.

The Old Guard 2

The first one was good, this one isn't. Leans too much on the first and its desire to set up for a third. I like how strongly it centres female characters though.