Add to playlist: the sweet plunderphonics of Quiet Light and the week’s best new tracks

Riya Mahesh is the ‘insanely Texas girl’ and medical student whose music splits the difference between dazed ambient production and big-tent pop melody From Boston, via Texas Recommended if you like Grace Ives, Porter Robinson, Grimes Up next Touring EU/UK in November Riya Mahesh has perfected her own sweet, whimsical brand of plunderphonics; her seventh project as Quiet Light in six years, this year’s Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2, sounds a little as if it’s been chopped together from sample...

By Shaad D'Souza and Ben Beaumont-Thomas