Westside Cowboy’s ramshackle Americana – plus the week’s best new tracks | Music

From ManchesterRecommended in case you like Pavement, Ezra Furman, Guided By VoicesUp subsequent Debut EP out 8 AugustWestside Cowboy describe their sound as Britainicana. You get what they imply. The winners of this 12 months’s Glastonbury Rising Expertise competitors are the product of a burgeoning new Manchester underground scene however began out performing Hank Williams and Bob Dylan covers in drummer Paddy Murphy’s bed room. Whereas the vocals find them firmly within the UK, there’s a definite nation/rockabilly undertow to their sound.However equally, Britainicana appears like a barely ungainly time period for music that appears so pure and spontaneous. Latest single Alright Alright Alright rattles alongside at excessive pace, its influences buried below a layer of fuzz and suggestions and punky vigour, the guitar lurching from the central riff into bursts of noisy abstraction: it seems like a snatched recording of a band taking part in dwell, full with the thrilling sense that their efficiency is seconds away from collapsing.The quartet’s debut EP is forthcoming, and the primary tastes of This Higher Be One thing Nice are extra sedate. I’ve By no means Met Anybody I Thought I Might Actually Love (Till I Met You) lopes in time-honoured slacker type; Shells begins out as a hushed ballad earlier than unexpectedly bursting into life 90 seconds in. However they’re equally marked by a temper of ramshackle invention at odds with the studied, polished air of lots of present alt-rock. The identify, by the way, comes from the horse riders employed to make sure trains didn’t exceed a sure pace in nineteenth century America: one other bizarre selection, given the speed Westside Cowboy presently appear to be travelling at. Alexis PetridisThis week’s greatest new tracksAcoustic meditation … Flock of Dimes AKA Jenn Wasner. {Photograph}: Elizabeth WeinbergFlock of Dimes – Lengthy After Midnight“Individuals say it’s not my downside / They are saying that actions have a consequence,” Bon Iver collaborator Jenn Wasner sings on a lovely acoustic meditation about providing assist towards your higher judgement.Kieran Hebden + William Tyler – Spider BalladFour Tet shatters the Nashville guitarist’s arid taking part in into kaleidoscopic fragments, making a tense, near-breathless strobing impact that evokes glimpsing horror in half gentle.Confidence Man x Jade – GossipGossip’s scrumptious, damaging energy is brandished like a weapon on this icy double risk, embellished with enjoyably sudden acoustic guitar and Jade spitting a really impolite phrase in pure South Shields.Joanne Robertson – GownThe sometime-Dean Blunt collaborator leads her new album with a track that evokes Sinéad O’Connor’s Celtic hymnals heard by Grouper’s damp-forest haze – with stirring cello by Oliver Coates.John Additionally Bennett – Ston ElaiónaFar from his childhood within the Ohio noise scene, Bennett channels the stillness and swoop of the view from his new Athens house, in attractive, consciousness-tweaking ambient bass flute oscillations.Daniel Avery – Rapture in Blue ft Cecile BelieveThe wildly underrated Canadian singer – and former Sophie collaborator – will get a deserved showcase main this anguished, expansive and surprisingly pop flip by the British producer.Chuquimamani-Condori – LRC with Pueblo De Dios Capo E DJ editOne half of one in all 2025’s greatest information – Los Thuthanaka – blesses us with a 24-track assortment of edits. On this spotlight, whistles and heartfelt chanted vocals struggle towards hypnotic pile-driver manufacturing. [Not on Spotify: listen here]Subscribe to the Guardian’s rolling Add to Playlist alternatives on Spotify.