- Kat Hunter’s prog-pop project Lack The Low returns with her second EP after 2018’s stacked One Eye Closed. Again it finds an utterly appropriate home on the label for serious-musicians-with-serious-music-to-get-out-there, Art As Catharsis. The new record seems both sweeter, leaning into its pop sensibilities, yet, perhaps even more densely compressed, every song stuffed with so much complex orchestration. Lack The Low has a roiling energy that’s always adding more, like she’s on some breathless pursuit of artistic perfection.

- Benny the Butcher’s Tana Talk series has returned in its fourth iteration; the first in over three years. While I’ve become less interested in the Griselda collective due to oversaturation, Tana Talk 4 piqued my interest as the previous instalment was what originally put me on to the New York rapper. Like Tana Talk 3, 4 is primarily produced by The Alchemist and Daringer who provide hard-hitting, gritty production, typical of the coke-rap sub-genre.