Sometimes, in the midst of the 100+ emails we receive on an average day, there is a gem or two hidden away, and we have to work to find it. Then, other times it just gets dropped into our lap with absolutely no fanfare, as is the case with this stunning track from 18-year-old Derry-based musician The Cyclist, whose ‘Bending Brass’ has made one hell of an impact on us. A simple clicking rhythm underpins a swirling melody that references so many different genres all at once that it’s hard to know where to start with it. The lo-fi production values help to make this track all the more breathtaking. This is something that works as background music, but serves its purpose just as well as something that you can intently concentrate on. We’ve been presented with this out of nowhere, and we have been floored. [GO’M]

The album of the same name is available as a pay-what-you-like download from Bandcamp.

A lack of consciousness, a heavy head, a night out with the stars - all suitable conditions in which to consume the ambitious, synthesized sounds coming from Genova’s Panthera Pardus. Add to that list some quality headphones or a sophisticated speaker set-up and we have what this artist might declare a suitable listening experience for ‘Nebula’. 1 minute, 50 seconds in and all of outer space seems to surge through the clouds, towards your onlooking eyes. [JM]

I saw the bugs swarming around me in the bathroom light yesterday evening as a sign: summer is slowly seeping its way back into the country. I feel hot, sticky and uncomfortable again, yet revitalised at the same time. Any other time of the year, I might not go near Thomas Collins’ sweet, chillwave-indebted sound of summer but it couldn’t seem like a more apt thing to listen to this morning. [JM]

‘Flesh Rails’ weaves between a straightforward pop melody, one that’d hit the heady heights of Top of the Pops a decade ago, and the kind of dipping, multi-faceted dubstep James Blake put his name to in the “good ol’ days” of EP’s. The above artwork says it all really; an imaginative gem that’s not for the faint hearted, right up there with the best electronic offerings of the past five months. [JM] 

”Dripping along tiny right angles in the circular saw of light”