We all love a surprise collaboration, and this month’s new music survey has thrown up some particularly intriguing combinations: there’s Cillian Murphy guesting with The Coral, Nick Cave and Debbie Harry covering a rare Jeffrey Lee Pierce song, Laura Marling’s LUMP giving a Elizabeth Fraser an electro makeover, Ride’s Andy Bell remixing Dot Allison, and The Chemical Brothers enlisting the services of French psych-pop singer Halo Maud. Everyone sounds like they’re having a ball, as you can hear below.

There’s also a pell-mell new single from Blur, the long-awaited return of Slowdive, a gripping Animal Collective epic, and a tonne of other great tunes that we guarantee will make the daily grind a little more bearable…

BLUR
“St. Charles Square”
(Parlophone)
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THE CORAL
“Oceans Apart feat Cillian Murphy”
(Run On Records)
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MARGO CILKER
“Keep It On A Burner”
(Loose)
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FAYE WEBSTER
“But Not Kiss”
(Secretly Canadian)
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NICK CAVE & DEBBIE HARRY
“On The Other Side”
(Glitterhouse)
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VERA SOLA
“Desire Path”
(City Slang)
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BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND
“Stand Anthem”
(Transgressive)
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WOODS
“Between The Past”
(Woodsist)
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SLOWDIVE
“Kisses”
(Dead Oceans)
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SUN’S SIGNATURE
“Bluedusk (LUMP Remix)”
(Partisan)
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PETER GABRIEL
“So Much (Dark-Side Mix)”
(Real World)
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ALABASTER DePLUME
“Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill, MettaShiba)”
(International Anthem)

JOHN RAYMOND & S CAREY
“Calling”
(Libellule Editions)
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CARLOS NIÑO & FRIENDS
“Flutestargate”
(International Anthem)
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MAROULITA DE KOL
“The Youniverse”
(Phantom Limb)
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GOAT
“Jazzman”
(Rocket Recordings)
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DOT ALLISON
“Unchanged (GLOK Remix)”
(Sonic Cathedral)
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THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
“Live Again (featuring Halo Maud)”
(EMI Virgin)
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TRAYSH
“Paint Sink”
(Husky Pants)

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
“Defeat”
(Domino)
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