Canadian minimalist Sarah Davachi’s love for the pipe organ has defined her music: dramatic, ambitious and physical. On her latest album, she weaves modern electronics with these centuries-old instruments to create a vast, layered world of her own.
Inspired by classic pop, freak folk and minimal house, Animal Collective’s strange and beautiful second album deserves greater recognition for its sonic experimentation and emotional resonance.
Oklahoma’s dirtbag metal band Chat Pile are taking on the great, stinking mess of 21st-century America, armed with gallows humour, acerbic lyricism and a crushingly heavy sound.
With his deep baritone, blues-tinged grime beats and lyrics bursting with romance and pain, rapper Joe James has been a cult figure in the UK underground – but now, with his debut album, he’s ready to break through.
