Some logical excitement here this week about the impending Leonard Cohen and Aphex Twin albums; in the event you’ve missed it these past couple of days, you can hear Cohen’s superb “Almost Like The Blues” further down this blog.

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Worth noting, though, some strong business from more marginal names here as well, including the first leaked track from the amazing Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band album I alluded to last week. After whingeing about it last week, I have something from Bing & Ruth’s ambient/classical gem for you to hear, and I’m going to flag up Khun Narin Electric Phin Band’s upcountry Thai psych again. Recommended, too: the lovely EP from Landless, an all-female a capella folk quartet from Dublin, which was plugged a couple of nights back in a tweet from Cian Nugent; plus the Earth album, which has bedded in at a suitably monolithic pace.

Haven’t added one of these stern caveats for a while, but I should say that not every one of these records comes unambiguously endorsed. The playlist is merely a list of things we’ve played, for good or ill, in the Uncut office over the last couple of days. As you were.

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1 Khun Narin Electric Phin Band – Khun Narin Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)

2 The Pop Group – Cabinet Of Curiosities (Kartel)

3 Gareth Dickson – Invisible String (Unwork)

4 Chris Forysth & The Solar Motel Band – Intensity Ghost (No Quarter)

5 Bishop Nehru/DOOM – Nehruviandoom (Sound Of The Son) (Lex)

6 Martin Duffy – Assorted Promenades (O Genesis)

7 Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)

8 Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)

9 Elisa Ambrogio – The Immoralist (Drag City)

10 Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (RVNG INTL)

11 Grouper – Ruins (Krnaky)

12 Various Artists – Local Customs: Cavern Sounds (Numero Group)

13 Leonard Cohen – Almost Like The Blues (Columbia)

14 Various Artists – Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock And Country 1966–1985 (Light In The Attic)

15 Torn Hawk – Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time (Mexican Summer)

16 Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe (Bird)

17 Frazey Ford – September Fields (Nettwerk)

18 Landless – Landless EP (www.landless.bandcamp.com)

19 Kemper Norton – Loor (Front And Follow)

20 Amanda X – Amnesia (Siltbreeze)

21 Lee Gamble – Koch (Pan)