Kristin Hersh: Your Ghost (4AD)

Let us not call this Kristin Hersh’s unutterably greatest moment but there’s a rippling sensitivity to the music, a sense of basic standards that must be matched that protects her from this week’s surrounding mediocrity. And continuing this issue’s Led Zep theme, there’s a bonus of a cover of their ‘Born On The Levee’ which shows how a woman doesn’t necessarily need Robert Plant’s whoops and hollers.