Jazz

Nate Mercereau, Josh Johnson, Carlos Niño ★★★★ Openness ...

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The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

U.S. Girls ★★★★ Scratch It 4AD. CD/DL/LP ...

We all know Aretha and George, Marc and Gene, Jagger and Bowie – but beyond those classic one-offs is a world where major artists head into the studio together to attempt to create something bigger, s