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Jane Weaver has found her perfect place with this fusion of psych-dance-kosmiche.ġ7 – Para One – SPECTRE Machines of Loving GraceĪ mysterious and delightful collection of smoky dubs, choral chants, voice samples, and breezy electronics. A master at work, bringing life and vibrancy to the work of others. It’s warm and weird.įor what turned out to be his last record, Tony Allen laid down live beats for a whole host of different hip-hop artists. This is bright poppy psychedelia with a hint of library music to it.

Portugal’s Beautify Junkyards are ploughing an adjacent furrow to the excellent Jane Weaver. If you have any kind of love for heavy guitar music then get on this lot.

It’s a collection of live and studio pieces that sit together perfectly and drop you somewhere you’ve never been before.ġ3 – King Buffalo – The Burden of RestlessnessĪbsolutely top-drawer stoner psych. This Swiss-Italian musician revels in conjuring up imaginary creatures and environments with his playful and wonder-filled compositions.

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He turns what were already great tracks into blissed-out club anthems, chock full of bubbling synth-work. OK, just an EP if we’re being tedious – but Pye Corner Audio’s remixes of five tracks by Ride guitarist Andy Bell (and one he did himself) are something special. They’ve dropped some funk in there this time, too, which sits just right.ġ1 – Andy Bell, Pye Corner Audio – The Indica Gallery EP One of the very best bands around right now drops another slab of wonderfully weird jazz-pop-psych-library goodness. Everything is built around transcendent synth tones that just grow and grow on you. Superbly strange long-form meanderings from this excellent group. This is less intense than Ghosteen (what isn’t?) but it shares that album’s sense of fascination and wonder. It takes experience to take things out until all that is left is what is needed. On the face of it, this album might seem a little slighter than their other work, but its sparse arrangements and lovely strings draw you in on repeated listens. Skittering beats are topped by the warmest synths to produce a joyfully exuberant electronic treat. And the words, ah, the words, what a treasure trove. He’s worked with Blockhead from early on in his career but this joint effort features some of the most exploratory beats and out-there sonic adventures. Once you’ve become addicted to deciphering the extraordinary detail of Aesop’s flow every other MC feels kind of dull in comparison. So it sounds amazing, the songs are always amazing, and it just works wonderfully. Here they play with their restrained guitar-led rock by simply caving the sound in, removing it totally in places, and reducing it to a crumbled memory of sound in others. Low has been making superb records for a long time now and something like thirty years into their careers they have never sounded more exploratory and radical. You can feel the joy oozing out of the music.

It’s kind of a love letter to lots of forms of music, from rave, to dub, to disco and more. I like a lot of the music coming out of France right now and this is some of the best.Ĥ – The Vendetta Suite – The Kempe Stone Portalīest known as David Holmes’s studio wizard, The Vendetta Suite steps into the limelight in a big way with this belter of an album of electronic exploration. Cool Colorado is the coolest track you’ll hear this year – and the catchy indie-dance maneuvers that accompany it are absolutely loads of fun. Jack Lacek’s falsetto vocals are the perfect foil to the band’s slow-build dynamics and by the time the towering crescendo fades into tempest winds your heart is on your sleeve, in your mouth, and still thumping away in your chest. No strangers to making magisterial anthems, The Besnard Lakes pull out all the stops and serve up the best work of their already marvellous careers. It’s wonderful.Ģ – The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Sam Shepherd crafts an elaborate, but extremely low-key environment for Pharaoh Sanders to lay some warm saxophone over. This collection of flowing pieces is all about understatement. I know that’s not exactly a hard sell, but it’s true. This is a stunning collaboration between three very different artists, and guess what? not much happens. 1 – Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra- Promises