NYMPH

Wow. Electronic music has been so good lately I kind of forgot that something as ancient as amplified stringed instruments and real drums can also from time to time still pick you up and hurl your ears into some crazy alternative dimension, where skronking jazz-inflected riffage collides with Afro futurism and scary love-in free vocals.

Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry sounds like an artist expressing themselves exactly how they need to be. It is stripped bare, urgent and lacking any artifice.

Youan Yours

If songs were people, this is who I'd want to be hanging with tonight. Friday is no day to be listening to something like The National. Seriously, I know people do but really? Is this what it's come to? A friday night full of melancholy and morosely striving guitars? Have another jacket potato, I'm off hanging out with Youan's Nightwalker...

Swirly

Dan Deacon brings a little of his euphoric wonder to this slowly unravelling textural swirler than ends as abruptly as it begins.

WHAM BAM

Russian Psych Punk? Yes, please... Wham Bam sound like they're having the best time ever on a ghost ride ran by Iggy Pop

James Holden

Made up your mind on the new Daft Punk LP yet? Shiny new future or charity shop hodgepotch?

Back to something that definitely sounds solely from 2013. Dan Snaith (under his Daphni monika) gets his remixey mittens over this great new James Holden cut. Elements of 2 step, pitched Trap atmospherics and even Psy-Generator house collide for a right proper summer knees up. In a field preferably.

Smoky

For a man with a gloom encrusted monika, DOOM always provides goo company. Here on a collaborative tip with The Child Of Lov that comes across thick with swamp juice and backwoods haze.