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On the stereo this month...

BETH GIBBONS

“Floating On A Moment” DOMINO

“It’s not that I don’t want to return…” Stunning solo comeback from the Southwest’s most reluctant torch singer.

JESSICA PRATT

Here In The Pitch CITY SLANG

A warm bossa nova breeze wafts through Pratt’s elegantly cobwebbed ’60s soundworld, though a sense of hazy melancholia remains.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Time Is Glass DRAG CITY

Unbound by hexadic systems and sci-fi narratives, Ben Chasny delivers some of his finest and most intimate songwriting to date, enhanced by typically brain-bending fretwork.

CASSIE KINOSHI’S SEED

Gratitude

INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM

New UK jazz luminary gracefully augments her Seed Ensemble with members of the London Contemporary Orchestra and turntablist Niknak.

BEINGS

There Is A Garden NO QUARTER Avant-ers assemble! Steve Gunn, Jim White and Shahzad Ismaily weave a dreamy canvas for the chant-like vocals and joyous sax convulsions of Zoh Amba.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Congo Funk! Kinshasa/brazzaville 1969-1982 ANALOG AFRICA

The real rumble in the jungle. Prime hip-shakers from both sides of the Congo River, fired up by James Brown’s 1974 visit.

ELSA HEWITT

Chaos Emeralds TOMPKINS SQUARE Swirling synth nebulae, found-sound mirages and melodic incantations from East Sussex’s answer to Julia Holter and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

KELSEY MICHAEL

“Mounts Bay Morning” DIMPLE DISCS Just as Carole King went back to California and Laura Nyro found mercy on Broadway, Kelsey Michael celebrates the “blustery blue sky ” of the Cornish coast. Angeline Morrison on BVS!

GROUP LISTENING

Walks PRAH

First album of all-original material from the ambient/ classical duo, their dewy synths and reedy clarinets mingling nicely with field recordings of croaking Madeiran frogs.

SHABASON, KRGOVICH, SAGE

Shabason, Krgovich, Sage IDÉE FIXE Wreathed in the ambience of the Rocky Mountains, Nicholas Krgovich’s reveries become ever more specific: “Walking home from school… Ani Difranco’s Puddle Dive in my Walkman”.