Do the watusi to the month’s best indie rock, rap and space jams.

1 KURT VILE LOADING ZONES

Coming over not unlike Johnny Marr under the influence of Gimme Shelter, Vile (above) narrates an ambiguous rumination on small town life. Bodes well for a new LP. Find It: streaming services

2 CYPRESS HILL BAND OF GYPSIES

With an Arabic voice talking about hashish, a Middle Eastern hip hop hybrid finds the West Coast rap crew in spine-tingling effect. Find It: streaming services

3 BACO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND I THING

A funk-driven steel band covering Amerie’s 2005 R&B hit, which in turn sampled The Meters’ cover of Oh! Calcutta!? Unreal! Find It: streaming services

4 SLEAFORD MODS GALLOWS HILL Visions of the hang-’em-all past

Find It: under the urban present, to stripped, oppressed punk hop. streaming services

5 ANA DA SILVA AND PHEW DARK BUT BRIGHT

Raincoats guitar/voice meets the Japanese avant-singer for nearly eight minutes of pulsing, spatial sound art. From their LP Islands. Find It: SoundCloud

6 CAVE SAN’ YAGO

From the Chicago space-jammers’ new album Allways, a rolling jazz/rock head-charger with added psych-chorale and Roland 303 bass machine. Find It: dragcity.com

7 PARCELS LIGHTENUP

From Australia via Paris, Eau de Cologne’d smooth disco-yacht which grooves endlessly into Daft Punk’s exclusive champagne room of the mind. Cool jazz flute too. Find It: SoundCloud

8 INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP AFTER DARK

The Moonlandingz side project present pumping Bobby O-style retro-electro for those who find themselves single, at night. Find It: SoundCloud

9 MATT BERRY WILDTRAK The BBC kids’ nature show music, reimagined with breakbeats.

From Berry’s circa 1980 TV memoir, Television Themes. Find It: SoundCloud

10 BLUE ORCHIDS INCANDESCENT ARTILLERY

Fall co-founder Martin Bramah’s band herald October’s new LP Righteous Harmony Fist. Rollicking, obdurate and organ-driven, with much scrabble and twang. Find It: SoundCloud