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TAYLOR SWIFT / Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

★★★★★

TAYLOR vowed she’d re-record her old albums to sound identical after Scooter

Braun bought the rights to them. Sure enough, Taylor’s new take on her 2008 country-pop breakthrough album is almost exactly the same. Enjoy playing spot the difference, especially on the slowies. The best fun comes on six unreleased songs Taylor wrote at the time. Polished up with her new producers, the more mature Taylor still sings Bye Bye Baby like a lovestruck teen. An absolute badass move.

BROCKHAMPTON / Roadrunner

★★★

THE self-styled hip-hop boyband recently hinted they’re splitting after their next album. You can’t tell there’s any strife here. As ever, the basic electronic beats are a platform for rowdy and hilarious rhymes. The final few songs are as sweet as the gang get, but cheeky cameos from A$AP Rocky and JPEGMAFIA are more in line with Brockhampton’s cartoon mayhem. Fun, frothy and only occasionally throwaway.

FLYTE / This Is Really Going To Hurt ★★

NO wonder Lewis Capaldi is a fan of the London trio – they share a love of a big old weepie. Written after a break-up, singer

Will Taylor overshares on a mopey album that wallows in glum folky harmonies. When Flyte show some fight on the wild There’s A Woman, it’s like the best vintage Beach Boys ballads. Mostly, the tunes plod along and Flyte fail to take off.

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE / Amazonia

★★★

YEARS before Daft Punk, keyboard wizard Jean-michel Jarre was France’s king of electronic music. He pretty much invented chillout, and his atmospheric synths are perfect for a concept album about a photo exhibition of the Amazon rainforest. It’s hardly the subject of dancefloor bangers. But there’s no-one better at bringing exotic places to life – mind you don’t step on a treefrog while you’re drifting away.