Just out, this free, eponymous album by Blankdread, an alter-ego of the dedicated, long-standing Oxford musician Asher Dust.

The Bandcamp profile for Blankdread drops influences including Lee Perry, Sly Stone, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and Tom Waits. Not a bad summation for this slightly distorted, disjointed and dissonant mix of hip-hop, dub and all kinds of other things…