At Fargrounds stops you in your tracks with the sheer excellence of Jacken Elswyth’s playing and then with the breadth of its implications. This is instrumental music that has a lot to say, and it says it with verve, lightness, and great skill.

Bristol trio BEAK> have today announced and released their new album “>>>>” via Invada and Temporary Residence Ltd. “At its core we always wanted it to be head music (music for the ‘heads’, not headphone music), listened to as an album.

The rhythms of Anna Tivel’s ‘Living Thing’ ride waves of anxiety, resilience and hope, washing up on a shore that ultimately looks out to the light on the horizon rather than the darkness behind.

Enjoy our latest Monday Morning Brew featuring Manu Delago, Carlos Niño, Frank Zappa, Kourosh Yaghmaei, Espen Horne, Ezra Feinberg, Cybe, Henry Lowther Band, Daisy Rickman, Jon Hassell, Bruce Langhorne, Joyce Moreno, Mike Cooper, Laraaji, Mia Doi Todd, Ariel Kalma and Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics.

Littoral Zone feels like a landmark album in Adam Ross’s career, a kind of synthesis of the most impressive elements of his full band and solo work. In a fair world, this literate, funny, humane album would cement his status as a national treasure.

A kind of alternative history of Gastr Del Sol, whose massive importance to the musical landscape of the last thirty years has been massive, a release as exceptional as ‘We Have Dozens of Titles’ should be met with excitement and the highest praise.

Watch Daisy Rickman, Isaac Ockenden and Cassius Nymh having some fun in the studio with a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators’ debut single, You’re Gonna Miss Me.

A concept album about the physical and spiritual aspects of birth and parenthood, Carlos Niño & Friends’ “Placenta” is a work of warmth, humanity, and unruly anarchic joy, with Niño acting as a catalyst through which the swell of creativity can be filtered and condensed.

In our second ‘Reflections’ playlist, we ask Jim White and Marisa Anderson to put together a playlist that inspires them. Featuring: Lankum, Anouar Brahem Trio, Freakwater, Ornette Coleman and more.

After a six-year hiatus, Old Man Luedecke returns with ‘She Told Me Where To Go’; re-energised and reinvented, this is one of his finest albums to date.

Rough Trade announce ‘Lankum—Live in Dublin’, recorded across three sold-out nights at Dublin’s Vicar Street, and share ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’, which has never been officially released until now.

Listen to Valium, the first single from Jack Cheshire’s forthcoming new album, Interloper. Through the widescreen, loping pastoral psychedelia of Valium, Cheshire explores themes of escapism and dissociation amid societal decay.