Albums of the week

Singer-songwriter

Mick Flannery; I Own You (Universal Music Ireland)

Blarney’s Mick Flannery says his fifth album is 50 per cent more socially aware than previous releases, and indeed his lyrics do tackle more worldly topics such as inequality, racial tension and 21st-century morality. What’s perhaps more instantly obvious is that it’s about 30 per cent more stylistically experimental, from its angry opener and title track, with its murky chords and trudging tempo, ...