Mac DeMarco is your new favourite Canadian, if he wasn’t already. But don’t write off this purveyor of fine slacker-rock as the lazy type. He’s worked his arse off to make you forget about every commitment in your life with his third album, ‘Salad Days’.

UK producer and giant of intelligent electronic music, Four Tet, has just released his seventh album ‘Beautiful Rewind’, and it is a more serious statement than anything he has released yet.

Eccentric Detroit rapper Danny Brown doesn’t care what you think. Over the course of his new album ‘Old’, Danny Brown is a hipster, a father, a former drug dealer, a party icon and a true poet.

‘Float On – Fill Your Lungs’ from Melbourne’s King Gizzard blends all the cultures you’ve always envied: outlaw biker meets traditional Indian; beach bum meets astronaut.

Sydney duo Horrorshow encapsulate a culture with one of the most provocative records in Australian hip hop, King Amongst Many.

Second Front is a welcome respite from the ‘feel good’ vibes of boganhood in Australian hip hop, With every deliberated second begging to be played LOUD.

James Holden’s second full-length effort is one mind-bending experience worth committing to, even if it might leave you in a trance-like state staring into oblivion.

Run The Jewels is the result of the ultimate bro-ing down of two rap icons for whom race, age, time and money present no obstacle. Anthony Wallace sifts through the swagger on our album of the week…

There’s an honesty to Callinan you can’t help but admire. If you think his naked body says something, his unencumbered lyrics reveal a whole lot more: an all too real world full of unflattering realities and fears of death.