fabio orsi Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul (CD, £12.95)

This album marks a new direction for the Italian ambient master. The raw and primal pulse at the heart of his music is writ large here with a punk mind-set, unleashing a heady mass of guitars against a backdrop of cavernous, shimmering distortion and crashing drums. It also boasts a bristling sense of lysergic, hazy melody. Brutal and glimmering, dark and beautiful. Limited to 300 copies.