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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Sissy Spacek is an LA-based duo who make experimental avant-garde noise and is not related to the actress of the same name.

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David Bowie – Lazarus

10th January 2025 · 2010s, 2016, Music

David Bowie foretold his own imminent death in what would be the last song he released in his lifetime, Lazarus. Two days later he was dead at 69.

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Here is Nick Cave serenading his wife Susie with words of love in Palaces Of Montezuma, in his late-2000s side project Grinderman.

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Frazey Ford – Done

12th December 2024 · 2010s, 2014, Country, Music

This powerfully emotional feminist anthem works like a sequel to Dolly’s Nine To Five, with a video to match.

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Los Bitchos say of their sound: “We wanted to sound like Van Halen and Cocteau Twins… but from Turkey.” You can’t get much more niche than that.

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I think it’s that gorgeous melody played on a harpsichord – or is it a hammered dulcimer? – that makes this Four Tet track so special. It lends the tune, from his 2017 album New Energy, a kind of medieval madrigal vibe that chimes so well with the sleepy beats.

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