UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

YORKSTON/ THORNE/KHAN Navarasa: Nine Emotions

DOMINO Third album of inspired fireside fusions, as Sufi devotionals transform magically into Scottish folk songs.

FRAZEY FORD “The Kids Are Having None Of It”

ARTS & CRAFTS

Auspicious return from the country-soul singer, her dreamy vocals carrying a razor-sharp message: “The likes of you should never hold the wheel.”

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Companion Rises

DRAG CITY

Chicago avant-rock stalwart Ben Chasny alights on a potent new formula: brambly guitars meet cosmic distortion on an album of haunting “sci-folk” ballads.

AOIFE NESSA FRANCES Land Of No Junction

BASIN ROCK

Poised, atmospheric indiefolk – think Joan Shelley meets Beach House – from a promising new Dublin artist in cahoots with Cian Nugent.

DESTROYER

Have We Met

DEAD OCEANS

“Calling all cars/the palace has a moss problem” – surrealist raconteur Dan Bejar ambles back into view with an album of luxuriant ’80s pop.

NICOLAS GODIN

“The Border”

BECAUSE MUSIC

Welcome echoes of Moon Safari – pillowy synths, Bacharach chords, sad robot vocals – on Air man’s new single, from upcoming album Concrete And Glass.

BEATRICE DILLON

Workaround

PAN

The techno producer weaves bespoke samples of tabla, kora and pedal steel into springy 150bpm steppers inspired by Bridget Riley and Rudolf Laban.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (1972-1991)

ANALOG AFRICA Overturning preconceptions of one of Africa’s most troubled cities, this is pure joy from start to finish.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

“Trouble In Paradise”

BMG

Slotting right into the zeitgeist, Rufus mines the classic, swooning LA pop sound employed by Weyes Blood and Western Stars. You can’t unsee that sleeve, though…

PEDRO KASTELIJNS

Som Das Luzis

OAR

Boogarins, Sessa… and here’s more evidence for Brazil as the current psychpop epicentre. Imagine Tom Zé fronting Deerhunter and you’re close.