Adrian Crowley shares a bit of psychedelia indie with 'Northbound Stowaway'; Human Impact offer dirty industrial rock on 'Recognition'; DJ Muggs and Rome Streetz go old-school hip-hop on 'Ace of Swords'; Kele of Bloc Party shares a hypnotic guitar loop on 'The Heart of the Wave'; afrobeat meets hip-hop on 'Cosmosis' by the late Tony Allen featuring Skepta & Ben Okri; Chronixx cries for peace (and legal ganja) on psychedelic reggae 'Safe N Sound'; former post-hardcore band Trophy Scars deliver an Americana-blues song 'Father: Part I'.

he Quietus made a selection of the best psychedelic and noise rock for the month of April, and two albums stand out from the already good bunch. The first one is Human Impact's self-titled debut, an industrial noise record made by the members of Unsane, Swans and Cop Shoot Cop. Apart from the name of the month award, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs win the doom-stoner-psych-rock album of the month award.

A few interesting songs (+videos) these days: Grimes shared music video for her new single ‘Delete Forever’, about the opioid crisis, the latest from her forthcoming album 'Miss Anthropocene' (out next week); New Zealand rockabilly queen Tami Neilson dropped 'Queenie Queenie', an anthem of empowerment for women; Azealia Banks dropped a bass-heavy/strings driven new song, a bilingual, English-Spanish 'Nirvana'; sister duo CocoRosie relives their roller rink memories on their new track 'Restless', from 'Put the Shine On', the band's first album in five years; Human Impact is the new band of Unsane, Swans and Cop Shoot Cop members, and they shared their new single. attitude-heavy 'Consequences' off their debut album (due 3/13 via Ipecac); Beirut-based experimental musician Sary Moussa is ambient and minimalist on his debut album 'Imbalance' (out March 6), as well as on the single 'In Praise of Shadows'; producer Tornado Wallace dropped a new video 'Midnight Mania', a psychedelic bit with 'Avatar'-like characters sexy-dancing, it's a step away from being too strange...