Cornwall has a way of producing things that sound like the weather: changeable, briny, prone to sudden brightness. Flo Crowe & The Dilemmas fit that mould, and their self-titled debut arrives less like a calling card than a small weather system of its own — thirteen tracks that swing between squall and clear sky without ever losing their footing.

There is a particular species of record that arrives not as product but as confession, and *War Torn* — the debut curatorial statement from Doha-based producer HZPROD — belongs unmistakably to that lineage. It is the sound of a man who has spent years behind the boards for other people finally stepping forward to say something only he could say, and doing so not with a microphone but with a Rolodex, a conscience, and, by his own account, twenty grand of his own money.

East London has always kept its own time signature — somewhere between the last night bus and the first shift at the market — and Mickey P understands this rhythm in his bones. "Good Love," his five-track offering, doesn't so much announce itself as slide onto the dancefloor already mid-groove, sunglasses on, unbothered.

Few instruments carry as much unspoken history as the nay. Reed cane, no mouthpiece, no keys — nothing between the player and the note but breath and intention. On *JASAD* (Arabic for "Body"), Bethlehem-born virtuoso Faris Ishaq turns that austerity into a manifesto, and the result is one of the most quietly commanding solo instrumental records to emerge from the Levant in years.