“The heaviness comes from our ancestors. I am Black and Indigenous. There’s been so much that has happened to us, and I feel this. I don’t feel like I could not make heavy music” - guitarist and saxophonist Takiaya Reed says about her band Divide And Dissolve. She is of Māori descent, and Sylvie Nehill, the other half of the duo, Cherokee. Together they play really intense instrumental ambient metal which aims to "destroy white supremacy”. Their newest album 'Gas Lit' is published by Portishead's Geoff Barrow who said “It totally freaked me out with its beauty and extreme heaviness”. The Quietus speaks to the ladies, and reviews the album - "a powerful, impressively unconventional, predominantly instrumental suite, linking sludge and doom metal with a desolate reading of jazz".

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a new band playing atmospheric emo - 'We Love You So Much'; Divide and Dissolve play classical doom on 'We Are Really Worried About You'; Dizzee Rascal is in good form on 'Act Like You Know'; CocoRosie summoned together ANOHNI, Big Freedia, Brooke Candy, and Cakes da Killa on 'End of the Freak Show' in an effort to vote the American president out of the office; Bicep go natural and ambient on 'Apricots'.