W, the second album from DFA's Berlin-based Bolton lass Janine Rostron, aka Planningtorock, similarly tries to fuse the extra-terrestrial and the everyday. The imagined world here is known as on Planet 9 as opposed to Lessing's 8 (the nine deriving from Rostron's playground nickname J-9), but it seems as much an evocation of her host city as an idea of a far-off place. Much like the city that much of it was created in, W is bursting with ideas while appearing static and slow-paced. The relatively abundant creative space and artist-friendly economy that Berlin offers has not for the first time given birth to an album that seems, like Bowie's Low, off the pace and at the same time ahead of it

• A1 Doorway
• A2 The One
• A3 Manifesto
• B1 Going Wrong
• B2 I'm Yr Man
• B3 The Breaks
• C1 Living It Out
• C2 Milky Blau
• C3 Jam
• D1 Black Thumber
• D2 Janine
• D3 #9