From Glasgow, ScotlandRecommended if you like Horse Lords, Melt-Banana, abrasive saxophoneUp 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. Sharp, smart and often brutal, Taupe make light work of heavy noise, as well as the complex musicianship that underpins their sound. Guitarist Mike Parr-Burman and saxophonist Jamie Stockbridge met studying music at Newcastle University and, like drummer Alex Palmer, …