Friday 9 September 2011

F&M playlist

Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn off

Phil Robson The Immeasurable Code British jazz guitarist Robson is no stranger to transatlantic partnerships, but this one with the understatedly persuasive American postbop saxophonist Mark Turner ? a recording caught live on tour this year ? might be the best of them. The quintet mix rhythmically devious originals, a world-jazzy idiomatic openness, and a rare chance to hear Turner cut loose on soprano sax. John Fordham

Those Dancing Days Hitten They quietly called it a day this week, but the Swedish band leave a number of wonderfully ramshackle pop songs behind. This, their first single, is one of their best ? galloping, sad and defiant. Rebecca Nicholson

The Cambodian Space Project Chnam Oun Dop-Pram Muy/I'm Sixteen OK, they look and sound like Dengue Fever copycats, with a Cambodian female singer fronting a western rock band, but the Cambodian Space Project's revival of an old Ros Sereysothea favourite is a rousing, quirky reminder of the pre-Khmer Rouge golden era of Cambodian pop. Robin Denselow

J�rgen M�ller Dream Sequence for a Jellyfish Oceanographer teaches himself music to capture his love of the undersea world, makes aqueous electronic album, presses 100 copies, vanishes into obscurity. It sounds too good to be true ? but whatever its origin, the reissue of Science of the Sea is marvellously soothing, the phantom soundtrack of every childhood nature doc. Tom Ewing

Ryan Adams (pictured) Kindness Gentle, candid and emotional, the reformed enfant terrible's forthcoming album, Ashes and Fire, may just be the best of his career. This track is a peach: plaintive lyrics asking people to "keep an open mind" over a melody of sublime simplicity. Dave Simpson

British Sea Power Lately Roy Wilkinson's funny, fascinating new book about his brothers' band (which he originally managed) has sent me tumbling back to their first album. This rousing 14-minute art-rock epic remains the standout of what was one of the noughties' finest debuts. Alex Macpherson

Sarah Williams White Charlie Dark, feminine, chaotic ? half Bat for Lashes, half Lesley Gore ? from an unsigned south London songwriter. Caroline Sullivan


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