ALSO RISING

The slinky sophistication and bolshy rave basslines of UK garage – or UKG – are de rigueur again. But Southampton’s Mark Taylor, Huddersfield’s Shollen Quarshie and the peripatetically-raised Danielle Gooding all came up through the kind of clubs where it never went away. As Royal-T, DJ Q and Flava D respectively they’re each esteemed producers in grime and other underground genres, but together as TQD they’ve homed in on their mutual musical first love. Keeping it underground – they’re doing no press – their released–for-free album is a brilliant, futuristic statement of how much unfinished business there is for the garage nation. Joe Muggs

Heralded by bustling six-song EP French Press, there’s romanticism at the core of ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER . “We try to find the magic in the everyday,” suggests the Melbourne quintet’s co-singer/guitarist Tom Russo. “We have an ‘in the gutter looking at the stars’ point of view.” That awestruck approach is manifest in their songs’ dreamy shimmer, big choruses and fleeting urgency. “We attempted to write pop songs combining melody, punk and Krautrock,” says Russo of the mix. Let the fever dreams commence. Paul Stokes