Amaro Freitas shares a Brazilian bossa-nova jazz smoothie 'Baquaqua'; cabaret-punk is pretty much an accurate description for Callum Easter's 'What You Think?'; Jorja Smith's 'Time's shortness is made up for with her great voice; dubby dream-pop meets electronica on 'Lost and Found' by Corbu and Doves' Jimi Goodwin; John Grant continues his streak of great songs which announce his new album, the latest one is a dramatic take on masculinity called 'Billy'; Anthetic start at ambient, end up at dark electro with 'Scope'.

"We get the government we deserve, I guess, because our entire society is built on marketing and manipulation. It's not just the US but the US has certainly been the purveyor or the cheerleader of this way of life more than any other place and sold it to the rest of the world as the way to go" - singer-songwriter John Grant says in The New Cue about hist new album 'Boy From Michigan', out June 25. That's the presumed facts, and then there's his emotions towards the society: "I mean, I love it, it's a great place, there's lots of great things, there's so much incredible beauty about the landscape and many of the greatest people I know live there and I have dear friends and I have family but I don't know, I don't feel romantic about Michigan, but I don't feel I feel romantic about the US flag".

John Grant shares Cate Le Bon-produced atmospheric Americana 'Boy From Michigan'; Svalbard vocalist Serena Cherry shares a dark metal song 'Labyrinthian' from her Noctule project; just some classic hip-hop - a new video of 'Nutshell Pt. 2' by the late A Tribe Called Quest MC Phife Dawg, featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman, produced by J Dilla; members of Vex, Obsequiae, Panopticon, and Horrendous form black-death project Aduanten, share 'The Drowning Tide'.

John Grant's 'The Only Baby' is long, angry, and - awesome!; Kikagaku Moyo release a fun psychedelia song 'Elevation Jam' from their new live album; Ghetts gets help from Stormzy for his new groovy track 'Skengman'; rapper Dessa stands against "global powers who stand to profit by stoking our basest vanities and appetites" on 'Rome'; French actress Isabelle Adjani covered Elvis Costello's 'Revolution #49'.