The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

shouting forever into the receiver Anne Denholm (harp), Louise McMonagle (cello), Jonathan Morton (violin) et al NMC NMC D285 61:56 mins Tackling social themes and reckoning with history is part of wh

Works by Dobrinka Tabakova, Shirley J Thompson et al Black Oak Ensemble Cédille CDR90000237 69:59 mins Black Oak Ensemble is a string trio on a mission. The ensemble is hungry to expand the repertoire

Roar Like Thunder EARACHE

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection