All of us love a shock collaboration, and this month’s new music survey has thrown up some notably intriguing combos: there’s Cillian Murphy guesting with The Coral, Nick Cave and Debbie Harry overlaying a uncommon Jeffrey Lee Pierce tune, Laura Marling’s LUMP giving a Elizabeth Fraser an electro makeover, Journey’s Andy Bell remixing Dot Allison, and The Chemical Brothers enlisting the providers of French psych-pop singer Halo Maud. Everybody appears like they’re having a ball, as you possibly can hear under.

There’s additionally a pell-mell new single from Blur, the long-awaited return of Slowdive, a gripping Animal Collective epic, and a tonne of different nice tunes that we assure will make the each day grind slightly extra bearable…

BLUR
“St. Charles Sq.”
(Parlophone)

THE CORAL
“Oceans Aside feat Cillian Murphy”
(Run On Data)


MARGO CILKER
“Maintain It On A Burner”
(Free)

FAYE WEBSTER
“However Not Kiss”
(Secretly Canadian)

NICK CAVE & DEBBIE HARRY
“On The Different Facet”
(Glitterhouse)

VERA SOLA
“Want Path”
(Metropolis Slang)

BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND
“Stand Anthem”
(Transgressive)

WOODS
“Between The Previous”
(Woodsist)

SLOWDIVE
“Kisses”
(Lifeless Oceans)

SUN’S SIGNATURE
“Bluedusk (LUMP Remix)”
(Partisan)

PETER GABRIEL
“So A lot (Darkish-Facet Combine)”
(Actual World)

ALABASTER DePLUME
“Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill, MettaShiba)”
(Worldwide Anthem)

JOHN RAYMOND & S CAREY
“Calling”
(Libellule Editions)

CARLOS NIÑO & FRIENDS
“Flutestargate”
(Worldwide Anthem)

MAROULITA DE KOL
“The Youniverse”
(Phantom Limb)

GOAT
“Jazzman”
(Rocket Recordings)

DOT ALLISON
“Unchanged (GLOK Remix)”
(Sonic Cathedral)

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
“Dwell Once more (that includes Halo Maud)”
(EMI Virgin)

TRAYSH
“Paint Sink”
(Husky Pants)

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
“Defeat”
(Domino)