Greyhound

Very focused Tom Hanks WWII battleships and U-boats movie.

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - All the Good Times

It's always quality with this duo, and while All the Good Times lacks any transcendent moments, it's still more than fine.

The Old Guard

An excellent character-led superhero-type movie, headlined in every way by the always compelling and always beautiful Charlize Theron.

Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started

From Midwest Farmer's Daughter and All American Made, I already knew Margo Price was one of the best, so I had high hopes for That's How Rumors Get Started. 

It is excellent, as well as being a marked turn towards rock in a British Invasion meets Americana kind of way - yet its final song, "I'd Die For You", is still one out of the box, feeling like a modern rock classic with its combination of simplicity, urgency and a soaring hook. It reminds me of "Maps". And it's far from the only terrific song here.

In My Blood It Runs

This is a wonderful documentary, its subject Dujuan Hoosan and his voice at its centre - with so much for white Australia (me included) to bite down on. More here.

Moses Sumney - grae

A spectacular melange of genres which collages and flows in a way that reminds me of Endtroducing..... but, unlike that other, is built around the artist's voice. There are some obvious skyscrapers across grae's 20 tracks - "Virile", "Me in 20 Years" and "Bless Me" among them - and earworms at every turn, be it the dropped-in title hook of "Conveyor", the moody piano and electronics of "Gagarin", the crystalline carefulness of "Two Dogs", or any of a host of others. Sumney's unique as far as I know, but other artists this album has brought to mind include Anohni, Thom Yorke, Blonde Redhead and Jamie xx.

Miranda Lambert - Revolution

Another good one from the back catalogue - this one from 2009. One thing about Revolution is that my favourites are stacked towards the end, starting with "The House That Built Me" (track 10; big ballad), then "Love Song" (track 11; big anthem and all done in less than three minutes), and also the closing trio of "Sin for a Sin", "That's the Way That the World Goes Round" and "Virginia Bluebell".

The Magnetic Fields - Quickies

Continuing the Magnetic Fields' tradition of themed albums, this one's 28 songs ranging from less than 1 minute to a max of 2 1/2 minutes; unfortunately. the songs are nearly universally too slight to provide much, either as a whole or individually.

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

I haven't got into this. It has some grace and craft, but I'm finding it a bit dull - I much prefer the glossier, rockier pair of records that she released before this one.

Lucius - Wildewoman

Lucius are going for a joyous noise indie-pop thing but it doesn't fully land most of the time. Best song: "How Loud Your Heart Gets".

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Aims for the same intensity and moral unmooredness as its predecessor, but isn't as good.