- It’s funny how much territory the twilight world of dream pop can cover. With a sugary sweet melody, whispery voice and reverb out to forever you could probably have a shot at transforming any style of rock’n’roll into its quietly cooing shadow. I was reminded of this by Amaya Laucirica’s new record, her fourth (?) full-length, Rituals. You might remember her back in the day doing a fairly good Mazzy Star or Marissa Nadler impression. The Melbournian muso knows her southern gothic. She fused it into dream pop by way of dusty country music.

- Following on from their 2011, self-titled debut, Oakland, California quintet No Babies deliver a long awaited sophomore album of heavy, playfully serious and genre-bending punk noise with Someone To Watch Over Me, a baker’s dozen of tracks totaling at just under twenty-five minutes with expectedly few pulled punches along the way.

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Freer: New House (Indie)

- Dissociative and effervescent, this magical slice of electronica will give your Aperol spritz that little extra kick. With a low key house groove to hold it down, sip, sprinkle and twirl to Brisbane’s New House. (Nicholas J. Rodwell)

- Scottish trio Young Fathers have consistently made weird and wonderful music. They’re a band who act with an openness towards writing songs with an immediate sense of modernity. It helped them to win a Mercury prize for their debut album DEAD whilst simultaneously creating confusion for those who have trouble navigating the shock of the new, in that their sound refreshingly encompasses popular music’s many elements and isn’t readily pigeonholed. Two mixtapes, two albums and a slew of free-flying singles has tangled them up in tedious tags like alternative lo-fi RnB.

- If EDM was in the Olympics I am quite confident that the Aussies would be banking all the gold medals, with What So Not leading the team. With the release of his debut album Not All The Beautiful Things, Chris Emerson aka Emoh Instead has crafted a compelling LP worthy of the top spot on the podium.