Add to playlist: the mysterious chillout milieu of False Aralia and the week’s best new tracks

Resisting genre classification … Izaak Schlossman, who heads up False Aralia. Photograph: Publicity image

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False Aralia disappears into a misty gulch somewhere between record label and artist project. It’s ostensibly a label, where each EP has a different named artist, and each sleeve, designed by Nick Almquist, features a different abstract expressionist monochrome doodle. But all the tracks are numbered, not named, and each EP is actually the work of just one producer, Izaak Schlossman (credited as IS), joined by a changing cast of collaborators.