BristolMusic Weekly

Our record of the week is DFAAN, the fifth instalment of Diz Undone’s LOVE & RAGE project. The Bristol MC, singer and producer — formerly Dizraeli — turns his attention to rest as a response to productivity culture. Vocals, guitar and production come from Diz, with drums, percussion and synth from Ben Brown; the Bandcamp package includes dirty and radio versions alongside three earlier project tracks.

Death in Sagra is a two-and-a-half-minute cut from Mothra Molasses’ YOGHURT release. The Bristol artist places the project in experimental hip-hop and lo-fi beat territory. Released on 5 October, it offers a compact entry point into that beat-led catalogue.

Mike Cosford returns to the 1990s house music that shaped his DJ career, pairing Akasa’s One Night In My Life with Leftfield’s Song of Life in a new edit. The 8 October release also includes a separate Akasa edit. This is a Bristol producer’s reworking of existing recordings, rather than a newly written original single.

The Bristol political-rock project returns with a ten-track album released on 8 October. Big Lies and Fairy Tales joins songs including Rats and Maggots, Children of the Future and Deep State Blues. Its framing fits the project’s longstanding interest in free radio and political dissent.

US + THEM reworks S.P.Y’s Step & Flow for Hospital Records, with the remix arriving on 8 October. The Bristol-based S.P.Y’s catalogue spans dark drum and bass, jungle and liquid influences; this four-minute-forty cut adds a fresh remix to that body of work.

Spiral is the new single from SCALER’s forthcoming four-track Reflex release. The Bristol band describes these tracks as a response to Endlessly, written together in the room with their machines and focused on a more immediate, live approach. Spiral arrived on Spotify on 7 October; the complete Reflex release is due on 26 February 2027.