Add to playlist: the disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks

The trio combine sludgy rock, homemade electronics and squawking into a watertight groove that makes light work of their complex musicianship From Glasgow, Scotland Recommended if you like Horse Lords, Melt-Banana, abrasive saxophone Up next Album out now, touring the UK and Ireland from June Taupe’s lawless mix of “not jazz”, sludgy rock and homemade electronics hits like a shock of cold water to the face. The Glasgow-based trio are a formidable live band: thunderously loud, crushingly tight...

By Katie Hawthorne, Sundus Abdi, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes