Bristol singer/songwriter and Aldous Harding collaborator Fenne Lily released her first single 'Hypochondriac'; multi-disciplinary art collective Asian Dope Boys released 'Trance', an intense and erotic experimental performance piece exploring death and ritual, sonically between metal and electronic; 'Nomad' is the new single from the South Korean-Japanese family band Tengger's new album, about water's travel and their inner travel; Pizzagirl proves plenty can be done with a simple but catchy guitar line in 'Cape Canaveral'; nice groovy folk-rock in Johanna Warren's 'Part of It'; Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's 'Temple' is the first song Thao released after coming out as queer to her Vietnamese family; 'Fake Blood' is the first song by the alter-rock band Ghost Work.

'Ohio' is a live favourite by King Princess; Moon Destroys have Mastodon's Troy Sanders on their psychedelic new song 'Blue Giant'; Myrkur go for strange, albeit easy-listening mix of Nordic folk and dream pop on 'Leaves od Yggdrasil'; Bay Area rapper The Jacka was killed in a 2015 shooting at 37 years old, and 'Can't Go Home' is his collaboration with Freddie Gibbs, coming out on his first posthumous album; Johanna Warren goes for simple and pretty on 'Bed of Nails'; Justin Bieber released a nice song 'Intentions' with a great message; The Strokes are back, drumless, with 'At the Door'; Poet laureate Simon Armitage launched a band LYR, mixing poetry, jazz and post-rock; Napalm Death released their first new songs in four years - an original 'Logic Ravaged by Brute Force' and a Sonic Youth cover 'White Cross'; I Break Horses go spacey psychedelia on 'I'll Be the Death of You'; Figazi people have a new band Coriky, much more laid down on 'Clean Kill'; Nigerian guitarist Mdou Moctar follows his last year's great 'Ilana' with a song 'Ibitlan', equally groovy and rich; Caroline Rose wrote 'Freak Like Me' because "I’ve always wanted to write a pretty song with the word ‘vomit’ in it"; Drain play just some straight punk-metal from California on 'Sick One'. Listening to all of these takes an hour or so, take that time, it's worth it!