For those of us not lucky enough to be at Glastonbury this weekend, the feeling of FOMO isn’t an easy thing to ride out – but listening to Sword II’s debut album Spirit World Tour has kept me on a level. The Atlanta four-piece, who first came onto the scene in 2020, make hazy, psychedelic-tinged music that sits somewhere in between shoegaze and noise-rock. The eight-track record is a blissed-out selection of tracks that drift from altered state to state, with jangly guitar riffs that simmer at a heartbeat pace. Vocalists Mari González and Corey Zuko reflect on out-of-body experiences and feeling chained to the world, their existential lamentations bolstered by free-wheeling experimentation, from the thunderous chord progressions of “Mirror” to “DRM”’s jazzy interludes. Evoking the likes of The Pixies, Spirit of the Beehive and Yves Tumour, it’s a steady trip – so get stuck in.

Elsewhere, Audika’s Steve Knutson releases a compilation of unreleased material from the late Arthur Russell, Russian artist Kedr Livansky reaches for the stars on her new EP, and Ex Wiish takes us through harrowing, metallic landscapes with a conceptual debut.