This simple mouthpiece-and-keyboard reed-free aerophone has an analogue charm that can bring a surprise solo or drone texture to a song. But where does it appear and when does it work best?

A huge subject, population, history and rich culture, how can you capture this great city in song? Londoner MussoliniHeadkick presents a fabulous set of lists spreading far and wide, especially south and east, inspired by last week’s topic

From inner London’s famous sites to the suburbs, its a melting pot of people, culture and music, of fame and fortune, fires, pioneers and history’s rebuilding. It’s time to go metropolitan and capture this great city in song

Indian classical to the ‘67 Summer of Love, psychedelia and into the beyond, this beguiling instrument has coloured eastern and western music for decades. Guest playlister Nicko plucks out many magical sounds from last week’s theme

What’s that sound? It is most associated with a master of Indian classical, but this week we also explore how the sitar has crossed into western and other genres, including electric and electronic recreations

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

New album: A selection of fond love-letter songs to the city where he was raised and has remained by the 46-year-ld American singer-songwriter, in this deliciously laid back 10th LP of songs of interweaving guitars, folk, rock, country and psychedelia, all with his inimitably relaxed vocal delivery

New album: His voice now may be thinner and weaker, yet his genius for melody remains in this warm, tender LP, inspired by vivid childhood reminiscences in the Speke area of Liverpool and beyond, with references to friends, parents, girlfriends, his bandmates, and includes a duet with Ringo Starr

New album: Mesmerically skilful, oddly beautiful expressive and sometimes powerfully disturbing experimental instrumental folk and bluegrass by the debut South Carolina trio of fiddler Courtney Werner, guitarist Evan Morgan and bassist/banjoist Michael Devito, together weaving extraordinary sounds within and beyond traditional on a dark and tragic ecological theme

New album: Classy, catchy psychedelic rock and 60s blues grooves come thick and fast in this sixth LP from the British band fronted by Barrie Cadogan, and their first under their name since the death of drummer Virgil Howe in 2017

Song of the Day: Sharply identifying sources of much of the world’s problems with this catchy, punchy new track, the Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist Gregg Deal and his indie-punk Denver, Colorado band are joined here by the Sleaford Mods’ rapper, heralding the upcoming new album Wagon Burner, out on 26 June via Hassle Records

Song of the Day: The Los Angeles indie trio return with a pacy, catchy, funky, witty, playfully philosophical and political new single with video based in a grocery store, and heralding their upcoming album Podium, out on 28 July

Song of the Day: Sumptuously slow, simmering, smoky, bittersweet new soulful single by the Leeds-based trio of Josh Crocker Tom Henryand Joe Harris, joined on vocals by the British-Canadian singer-songwriter, out on Play It Again Sam

Song of the Day: Smooth, effervescent funk-jazz synth-pop by the Japanese composer and singer-songwriter Keigo Oyamada, joined here by the younger son of John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), and heralding Cornelius’s upcoming album Refractions, his first for the Eat Your Own Ears label

Song of the Day: With their first new music in almost four years, the influential and innovative Dublin quartet unleash an arresting, visceral hybrid of post-punk and noise rock, a stream of consciousness in dynamic, evolving sections, and with some echoes of The Fall, out now on Rough Trade