JESS RIBEIRO Love Hate (Barely Dressed) As the business cliché has it, this third album from Jess Ribeiro is public facing. Prince Phillip might even call it outward bound. The result is that the people who have resisted playing her, or hearing her, will have fewer excuses after this. Lest that sound like Ribeiro has flicked the switch to vaudeville/big hook pop, Love Hate mostly keeps the low, murmuring vocals and intense focus of its predecessors, and structurally the songs

Checked out the first batch of best albums of the year? Good. Here's the concluding half, with ten more excellent releases. Buy them all. Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul The instrumental Stark’s Reality, with its marimba flirting across a ‘70s crime film atmosphere (leaning bass, strings for emphasis rather than tension, shaker percussion more than drums) may be over in not much more than two minutes but its connection to a similar modern film noir soundtrack you