UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

JOHN GRANT Love Is Magic BELLA UNION

You couldn’t ask for much more from Grant’s magnificent fourth: love, death, synthesisers, a song called “Smug Cunt”, plus crazed ruminations on ISIS and yoghurt.

CONNAN MOCKASIN Jassbusters MEXICAN SUMMER

Priapic Kiwi oddball brilliantly refines his queasy slowjam formula on what should be a breakthrough album. Think JJ Cale meets Midnite Vultures-era Beck…

CAT POWER Wanderer DOMINO

First album in six years from Chan Marshall finds her travelling the lonely desert road, joined briefly by her most committed disciple, Lana Del Rey.

ELVIS COSTELLO Look Now CONCORD

Co-writes with Burt Bacharach and Carole King, soulful arrangements and wry meditations on Britishness, masterfully delivered with just a hint of the old sneer.

CAVE Allways DRAG CITY

Bitchin Bajas’ Cooper Crain returns with his other band of instrumental vibemasters. Monumental jams for sure, but of an earthier, more choogling variety.

DUR-DUR BAND Dur Dur Of Somalia ANALOG AFRICA

Billed as “the funkiest band from the Horn Of Africa”, and on the evidence of this double-LP of their mid-’80s recordings, it’s hard to argue.

KNIFE KNIGHTS 1 Time Mirage SUB POP

Shabazz Palaces’ Ishmael Butler offers a (fractionally) more accessible gateway into his febrile, Afrofuturistic vision, via eerie psych soul and desolate cosmic rap.

BEAK> >>> INVADA

On which Geoff Barrow’s boys deliver not just rasping motorik thrills but also unexpectedly poignant, spectral laments.

CIRCUIT DES YEUX & MOON BROS Soeur De Race ANTHOLOGY RECORDINGS/MEXICAN SUMMER

Chicago underground movers Haley Fohr and Matt Schneider come together to pay tribute to a key influence, French psych-folk singer Catherine Ribeiro.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Roadkill CAPTURED TRACKS

Who knew? Ben Stiller’s teenage band, revealed as post-punk deconstructionists to rival Swell Maps and Gerry & The Holograms.