I listened every night
Out this week: Modern Nature’s The Heat Warps carries their widescreen folk-jazz sound into something warmer and more immediate, while Blood Orange’s Essex Honey finds Dev Hynes back home, weaving pop hooks with experimental edge. Chartreuse release their tender and searching debut Bless You & Be Well, and Gulp return with the cosmic psych-pop of Beneath Strawberry Moons. First issued in 1978, Fantuzzi’s An Open Heart finally gets its first vinyl reissue - a psychedelic folk-funk private press classic from the Woodstock figurehead whose photo graced the cover of Newsweek during the festival. Coil’s Live One captures the duo in all their confrontational glory, and Prolapse return with I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face? - their first new album in 26 years, full of repetition, krautrock pulse and ferocious duelling vocals. Wao, the spontaneous new collaboration between Shabason, Krgovich and Japanese duo Tenniscoats, was recorded over two improvised days at Kobe’s Guggenheim House, a warm and dreamlike set that captures connection in the moment. Rounding things out are The Clash’s best-of Hits Back and The Stone Roses’ essential early singles compilation Turns Into Stone.



