A new album from Hugo Race is always something to celebrate and he is in fine form on his latest, which kicks off the playlist. As for the rest, a selection of contrasting styles - starts loud, goes contemporary composition, gets ambient, features some current obsessions and then gets noisy again.

PLAYLIST

Hugo Race Fatalists - Against The World

2 Lost Souls - Unfunky

Neon Crabs - Crisis On Infinite Crabs

Bleak Squad - A Suitcase In Berlin

Satellite Inn - Faded By Time

The Ex-Bombers - In Music City

FÄHM - Ruby

Laclan X Morris - Illusionaires

This House - Out in the Westlands

Barbican Quartet - Enigma Variations Op.36 Nimrod

Mativetsky Amiri Pagé - Metamorphose

Hannah Marshall - Peasantry (Except)

Meredith Bates - 3rd incantation (binding)

Anne Efternøler, Maria Laurette Friis, Johanna Borchert - A bitter comfort for no-one & me

shrube - Flat Battery

The Green Apple Sea - Dark Kid Episode 5 (Big Heart)

The Go-Betweens - He Lives My Life (Larry Crane Rough Mix)

Agent Starling - The Charm

Half Man Half Biscuit - I’m Going Out Of My Mind Trying To Get Into Yours

2 Lost Souls - The Real Thing

Clare Moore - Parchman Farm

Elkeyes - Thalassaphobia

Mark Snarski - I’ve Got A Bullet In My Heart And Fifteen Minutes To Tell You That I Love You

Moff Skellington - o me little peters gone to sea

Salem Trials - Impressed

Neon Crabs - Near To My Eye

The Parasite - Dreaming Out Of The Slow Lane

2 Lost Souls - These Days

Aye Mammoth - Aetherium

Mad Professor - Africa 1983 Dub