Doomgaze girls Blackwater Holylight blend doom-laden hard rock riffing with walls of psychedelic shoegaze on new song Heavy, Why?

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The Fat White Family return with a career-spanning live album recorded in a single day, led by this new recording of Hits Hits Hits.

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Charli XCX teams up with John Cale on an extraordinary spoken-word collaboration between two musicians born half a century apart.

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Robert Wyatt’s plaintive rendition of Elvis Costello’s poignantly political song Shipbuilding gave Rough Trade their first hit single in 1983.

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Beth Orton teams up with Terry Callier to perform a duet of the classic song Dolphins, written by Fred Neil and popularised by Tim Buckley.

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Here is a beautiful melange of interesting jazz-adjacent sounds by Romanian pianist Mischa Blanos, a new name to me.

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Lucinda Williams returns at the age of 72 with another state of the nation critique, The World’s Gone Wrong.

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Run For Cover was one of first minor hits for The Dells, one of the finest and longest-lasting vocal groups in R&B history – and it’s a Northern Soul classic.

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Spencer Wiggins had no success even at the height of his career in the ’60s, but this song has since become a Northern Soul classic.

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Veteran reggae outfit The Twinkle Brothers reached an early peak in their career with this rockers favourite, Rasta Pon Top.

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