Topographies are a new band to me, though there’s a familiar undercurrent in the shimmering shoegaze sound of their dreamy darkwave.

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Here’s a slice of vintage funk from the streets of the motor city. Except it’s not. D/Troit are an all-white funk revival outfit from… Copenhagen.

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Sharon Van Etten is my favourite singer. And, against strong competition, Seventeen is my favourite song of hers. It reduces me to tears every time I hear it.

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Seattle rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis topped singles charts all over the world with their hilarious hip hop parody Thrift Shop.

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Cate Le Bon’s poignant elegy for her recently deceased grandmother, Are You With Me Now?, is a melancholy gem from her 2013 album Mug Museum.

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White Noise Sound are the long-forgotten Welsh wizards of droney psychedelic shoegaze, and they are long overdue for a revival.

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You’d be forgiven for thinking this might be a deep cut from the back catalogue of Amy Winehouse. But it’s not the Queen of Camden – Kendra Morris comes from 4,000 miles away.

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Tropical Fuck Storm grew out of Australia’s noisemongers The Drones – and make even more of a glorious racket than them.

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This old-skool reggae tune comes not from Jamaica but a Japanese production outfit – and features a toaster from Brazil. 

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Keith Levene re-imagined and re-recorded PiL’s unreleased fourth album in 1984 as the mainly instrumental Commercial Zone.

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