A new year’s resolution of sorts at FACT: every Saturday, we’ll post a run-down of the music – old and new – we’ve most been enjoying in our UK and US offices that week.

No emphasis on the boxfresh or the under-the-radar: just an honest account of what’s spent most time on the respective office stereos, with (where possible) links to the music.

Sunn O))) & Ulver – Terrestrials

Like a grim continuation of Earth’s towering opus Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method, this is long-form, cryptic Americana at its most well-crafted and realized. Closer ‘Eternal Return’ is like a knife in the heart.

Vladislav Delay – Studio Mix

There aren’t many artists who can claim to be a couple of decades into their production career and are still churning out music just as explorative, unique and essential as when they started. Sasu Ripatti’s brand new mix has it all, and needs to be heard immediately.

Sun Kil Moon – Benji

Forthright, conceptually bold songwriting of the highest order. Confessional without a scintilla of mawkishness.

SD Laika – forthcoming album for Tri Angle

Don’t wanna spoil the title, as it’s not announced yet (and is dead cool), but what a record this is – mangled outsider music with a grime palette at its core, but peppered with nods to Polygon Window, Autechre and more.

Various – Killed by Deathrock Vol.1

Fabulously overwrought deathrock rarities by nobodies, no-hopers and kohl-eyed mopers. Embace the SAD!

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Piñata

The full-length collaboration between the beat supremo and the gravel-throated rapper doesn’t disappoint – as an instrumental album it’d be world-class, but Gibbs’ thug charisma lifts it into the stratosphere. Not out until March 18.

Drake feat. The Weeknd – ‘Crew Love’

Sure, we’ve all heard it plenty, but returning to ‘Crew Love’ (and ‘The Zone’, at that) in 2014 it feels like a real unfulfilled promise: a taste of what could have happened if Drake and The Weeknd’s mutual man-crush had lasted beyond a year. Both artists’ last albums could have done with a bit of this magic, as, to be fair, could the second half of Take Care.

Ava Luna – Electric Balloon

The latest album by the Brooklyn avant-pop purveyors is a treat, with the same nervous energy of their previous material. Spiky, soulful and loaded with gorgeous vocal harmonies.

Minor Science – Noble Gas EP

Yes, this is the production alias of a regular FACT writer – but honestly, if we’d never known, we would still be raving about these three (so far) tracks of rough-hewn, oddball dance going in twenty directions at once.

Glacial Sound – Mix For The Astral Plane

A half-hour set from one of our favorite labels: sino-grime from the future, a pair of stunning Rabit blends, and a closer by The Phantom that reminds us what we loved about dubstep.