From Glasgow, Scotland

Recommended if you like Horse Lords, Melt-Banana, abrasive saxophone

Up next Album out now, touring the UK and Ireland from June

Taupe’s lawless mix of “not jazz”, sludgy rock and homemade electronics hits like a shock of cold water to the face. The Glasgow-based trio are a formidable live band: thunderously loud, crushingly tight, quick to surrender all control and trust-fall their way through wild improvisations. Their third album, Waxing | Waning, out now on Prague’s Minority Records, finally captures that power, as well as the band’s oddball humour and free-flowing imagination.

Single Lemonade Tycoon (a nod to the early-2000s lemonade stall video game) opens with stilted, comedic flurries of squawking sax and tip-toeing percussion before finding its groove – as well as ragged electric guitar with the heft of an industrial power tool.…