No point in messing about this week: scroll down to hear new music from, among others, Neil Young, Cool Ghouls, Bryan Ferry, Frazey Ford, Kendrick Lamar, Joan Shelley and the extremely promising D.D. Dumbo, plus a couple of amazing full gigs from Hiss Golden Messenger and a Purling Hiss/Spacin’ supersession, both courtesy of the invaluable www.nyctaper.com.

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And also stick with the Beatles art experiment by Rutherford Chang: 100 old copies of “The White Album” is quite something, gradually, especially if you’ve a taste for stuff like MBV and Fennesz…

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1 Cool Ghouls – A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rye (Empty Cellar)

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2 Neil Young – Who’s Gonna Stand Up (solo, Crazy Horse and orchestral versions) (Reprise)

3 Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)

4 Thompson – Family (Concord)

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6 Robert Wyatt – Different Every Time: Benign Dictatorships (Domino)

7 Various Artists – New Orleans Soul: The Original Sound of New Orleans Soul 1960-76 (Soul Jazz)

8 Hiss Golden Messenger – September 18, 2014 Rough Trade NYC (www.nyctaper.com)

9 Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979) (RVNG INTL)

10 Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Caroline)

11 Loscil – Sea Island (Kranky)

12 Kendrick Lamar – I (Top Dawg)

13 Rutherford Chang/The Beatles – The White Album: Side 1 x 100

12 James Last – Non Stop Dancing 1973 (Polydor)

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14 Lee Ranaldo & The Dust – Acoustic Dust (El Segell Del Primavera)

15 D.D Dumbo – Tropical Oceans (4AD)

16 Joan Shelley – Electric Ursa (No Quarter)

17 Kassé Mady Diabaté – Kiriké (No Format!)

18 The Young Sinclairs – This Is The Young Sinclairs (Ample Play)

19 Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)

20 Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)

21 Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean (Nettwerk)

22 Rumer – Into Colour (Atlantic)

23 Fugazi – First Demo (Dischord)

24 Spacin’ & Purling Hiss – September 5, 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival, Tir na Nog, Raleigh, NC (www.nyctaper.com)

25 Anthony D’Amato – The Shipwreck From The Shore (New West)

26 Bryan Ferry – Avonmore (BMG)