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Our pick of the new music that's coming your way.  1. white magicvery late (drag city) With fellow psychedelically-inclined Brooklynites Yeasayer currently winning justified plaudits, ears should be primed for White Magic’s superb Dark Stars EP. Built around a spiralling piano motif and Mira Billotte’s incantatory vocal, this captures the brooding end of a sound that spans the sleazy and the sublime. CP  listen 2. blogariddimsepisode 29: 69 allstars mix Compiled by the pleasingly-named grime collective Lower End Spasm - yes, really - the latest instalment in a series of mixes commissioned by the site Blogariddims is a poke through the genre’s primordial soup. Mainly instrumental, it includes some early outings from Dizzee Rascal and Wiley alongside plenty of dubplates now rarer than pterodactyl teeth. PC download 3. the teenagers starlett johansson (merok) French trio The Teenagers add to their growing canon of sleazepop with this cracked love letter to their favourite starlet, Scarlett. Singer Quentin Delafon delivers the killer opening line - “I know you’re born in 84/Half-Polish, half-Danish” - in a Gallic brogue so thick you’d think he was taking le mick. Pop perfection, this week at least. CP listen 4. atlas sound altitude sickness ep Atlas Sound is the solo project of the charismatic Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox, who records songs on his laptop while the band are on tour. The three doo-wop covers that make up Altitude Sickness were recorded as they wound their way through the Swiss Alps, and they find Cox pouring delicate electronica over otherworldly spookiness reminiscent of the soundtrack to Blue Velvet. NN download 5. no age everybody’s down (sub pop) A celebratory performance at New York’s CMJ music festival last month has put two-piece LA band No Age on the map. Now signed to Sub Pop, their MySpace gives a taster of their propulsive sound: all drenches of fuzzy guitars and tunes that lodge themselves instantly in your grey matter. NN listen 6. jim noir all right (my dad) This is something of a right turn for the Mancunian, whose past releases have threatened to box him in as perennially quirky. The Casio-based offering, All Right, is a homemade concoction of Daft Punk-ish vocoder and the lush electronic soundscapes beloved of the excellent Caribou. SY listenTips by: Chris Power, Steve Yates, Paul Clarke and Nick Neyland  conversations
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