Sweetest, biggest, baddest, punniest, funniest, spinniest, dreamiest, wooziest? Many more most ‘ests’ feature this week in the very best of superlative selections by guest playlister Uncleben, taking the very best shot from last week’s many nominations

We’re not exaggerating, from most beautiful to the fastest, craziest hottest or worst, this week it’s songs centrally featuring that adjective or adverb that expresses that the thing or person described has possessing more of that particular quality than anything or anyone else of that type

Congregations to murders, vaquejada to izinyoni, Scotland to England and Spain, Africa to Brazil and beyond, collective nouns add vivd poetry to song lyrics. Guest playlister Maki picks out some collective colour from last week’s theme

New album: After 2022’s mini-album solo, Afrikan Culture, the acclaimed and prolific British jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, known best for Sons of Kemet and the Comet Is Coming returns with a reset – swapping reeds for flutes, with an LP of delicate, experimental beauty, and featuring guests including Moses Sumney, André 3000, and Saul Williams

New album: Following 2022’s Maelstrom, a fabulous second studio LP from the Dublin quartet of electronic psych-rock with dirty fuzzy synth lines and layered guitars, searing vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny and percussion pushing it all along like unstoppable krautrock train of wizzing, fizzing new wave energy

New album: The American omnipresent megastar returns with a surprise but also widely well-received 11th LP – a twisting, voluminous collection of 31 songs (Anthology version) of luxuriant pop, but packed with extremely caustic, often brilliantly dark, cutting break-up lyrics

New album: Following last year’s 1984 album, Manchester’s pioneering and highly influential post-punk trio of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson return with a punchy, potent, stripped-back sound with a dark funk flavour, produced by the prolific and brilliant Dan Carey

New album: The English singer-songwriter returns with her fifth LP, following 2019’s No Words Left, with a triumph-against-adversity comeback of beautiful piano-based songs fuelled by difficulty and yet also hope

Song of the Day: Funky, groovy, smooth and stylish, but with candid, caustic feminist lyrics about body and self-image come in this brilliant new single and video by the innovative Scottish London-based artist

Song of the Day: Classic rock-pop with an new twist and a number about being hopelessly drawn to someone’s charm coming from the Belfast duo Mollie McGinn and Orlaith Forsythe, heralding their forthcoming debut album, For Your Sins.

Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy, wonderfully oddball funk-disco single by the LA-based singer and percussionist Brijean Murphy of Toro Y Moi and Poolside, here with multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart, also delivering an alluringly lazy vocal style, which gives extra appeal considering the subject matter

Song of the Day: Fabulous drumming from a past session by the departed legend Tony Allen, and passionate blues-rock vocals from Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis in this opening track from his new project and upcoming EP, Lagos Paris London – out on 30 August via Transgressive Records

Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, smouldering, stormy indie synth-rock single by the London-born, Newcastle-raised artist with a song raging against apathy and status quo in a world of climate meltdown and political turmoil