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It took Craig David six years to unveil his last effort Following My Intuition, but he’s wasted very little time delivering a follow-up.

The Time Is Now features another array of top producers, with Chase & Status, Jonas Blue, Kaytranada and Plan B/Kano collaborator Fraser T Smith.

JP Cooper, Bastille, rapper GoldLink, grime MC AJ Tracey and rising star Ella Mai all feature on this new album, which includes hit singles ‘Heartline’ and ‘I Got You’.

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It’s taken the Yorkshire fivesome four years to deliver a follow-up to their hugely acclaimed debut album The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets, but it finally arrives in the first month of this year.

Produced by Gil Norton, best known for his work with Foo Fighters, Twin Atlantic and Pixies, the album sees the band slightly refining the rawness of their debut, but continuing their thundering taste for melodies and choruses.

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Former Motorhead man Phil Campbell drops his new album, recorded with his sons Todd, Dane and Tyla, plus vocalist Neil Starr. 

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The eccentric indie types return with their third album, produced once again by drummer David Maclean.

Metronomy’s Anna Prior and Slow Club's Rebecca Taylor both make guest appearances on the album, which includes new single ‘Tic Tac Toe’.

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The thrash titans have opted for a change of direction for the follow-up to 2014’s Bloodstone and Diamonds.

Their new LP, the ninth studio of their career to date, was recorded with All Shall Perish Zack Ohren, sees the band pushing melody to the centre, but still maintained the same crushing heaviness that has characterised their sound.

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After taking over $400 million at the box office with the series debut The Secret Service, Matthew Vaughn returns with a second instalment of his suave franchise.

The sequel stars a returning Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Mark Strong with Julianne Moore, Poppy Delevingne, Pedro Pascal, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Elton John and Halle Berry joining the cast. Vaughn directs once again and has adapted Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons' comic for the screen.

This time the story takes us across the pond to America to join forces with Statesman, Kingsman's American counterpart, after Kingsman's headquarters is destroyed by Poppy, a member of the secret group The Golden Circle and a notorious criminal mastermind.

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Jean-Claude Van Damme leads this action shoot-em-up about a mysterious stranger who arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Even when he recovers, it turns out his life is still very much in danger...

Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith and Barkhad Abdi all star in this action drama. 

Peter plays Jay, a rookie journalist Jay Bahadur who has an inspiring chance encounter with his idol and decides he uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime.

Split's Anya Taylor-Joy and The Hour star Romola Garai lead this lavish adaptation of Jessie Burton's bestselling novel. 

The story follows Taylor-Joy's Nella Oortman, who is married off to a rich family in Amsterdam. Expecting to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, she is instead met by his sister Marin.

Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways...

Alec Secareanu and Josh O'Connor star in this hugely acclaimed coming of age drama.

O'Connor plays Johnny, a farm worker who numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until a Romanian migrant worker arrives for lambing season and the pair begin an intense relationship. 

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