With nods to The Cure, Can, Björk and even Turkish rock, the latest offering from Welsh trio Adwaith fuses electronics, post-punk and psych to resounding effect

Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape

Adi Newton (Clock DVA) and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) are electronic royalty. Steeped in “spectral dimensions and psychedelic radiophonics”, their second collaborative project as Soon is the sort of ambitious tour de force we’ve come to expect

Throughout their 20-year journey as CocoRosie, Bianca and Sierra Casady have been both revered and wilfully misunderstood. fully Embracing their “irrepressible artistic self-realisation”, they open up on creative freedom, sibling clashes and being “very witchy”