Formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada, Moon Duo's first two EPs fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock 'n' roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock.

Their debut album 'Mazes', recorded as the band prepared to move to the mountains of Colorado, explored a far broader, lighter, sound. That's most clear on the dreamy organ and skipping riff of the title track, which recalls the Velvet Underground, or the handclaps and swinging organ bloops over the potent shredding and guttural riff delivered by Johnson in 'When You Cut'.

'Sleepwalker' the first track to emerge since then, and first from their new record, 'Circles', is the product of a long winter's isolation in the Rocky Mountains, it sounds like the vast expansive spaces of the American Frontier, shot into orbit.

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'Jasmine' by Jai Paul is the kind of track to blast away the dull, creaking, post-weekend blues, not with some rallying angsty call to arms, or thrashing and squeeling guitars, but with its melancholic beauty. 'Jasmine' is sort of sad-funk, reverb heavy Prince-esque guitar mixes with nightbus garage drumlines and r'n'b vocals, totally works in a blissfully odd way.

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Slime seems to exist in a world of his own, it's hard to draw comparisons between him and other artists, a few years back he'd have fallen under the umbrella of post-dubstep, but that gaudy catch-all moniker does a disservice for an artist who, on his second EP, seemed to move entirely away from garage-inspired beats.

What to call what he's moved towards though, is a lot harder. Taking in bits of jazz as well as electronica and soundscapes, and inventive yet never ostentatious drum patterns. 'Crown' is a dainty, love-lorn slither of a track, somewhere between homage to McCartney's 'Blackbirds' and Aphex Twin at his most classicist.

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