Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features Irish-American fiddle folk by Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick, original electronica courtesy of MEMCO, drum 'n' bass by Indigo Virus, country-folk by Kathy Wieland, and a Phil Collins cover by Chris DuPont.

Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick, Unmatched Pair
Ann Arbor's Grant Flick and Boston's Hannah O'Brien may live in the U.S. but their hearts appear to be in the Emerald Isle. The duo's Unmatched Pair album features the two fiddlers dueling on 11 songs—10 originals—that touch on Irish and American folk idioms, with some nods to classical music, too. Flick also plays tenor guitar and nyckelharpa on the record, and I imagine he'll bust out his multi-instrumentalist skills when the twosome play at the North Star Lounge in Ann Arbor on August 28 for the Unmatched Pair album-release show.

Various artists, Early Spring EP
The U-M-affiliated Michigan Electronic Music Collective has released three benefit comps under the name Sounds of MEMCO, but it's mostly known for its long-running, high-quality Exposure Mix series. But this Early Spring EP features three original cuts by Zagc, 22x, and otherseas. The record runs from Zagc's ambient-tribal banger "Bustling City of Ten Thousand Bugs Centered Around Tiny Pinprick of Light"—imagine Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, and David Byrne's Fourth World records in a club setting—to otherseas' lovely and quirky "Wilted Toys." Between the atmospheric bookends is 22x's manic cut-up "horay_aw."

Indigo Virus, Temple Beyond The Jungle EP
The latest EP on Ypsi's premier—OK, only—drum 'n' bass label, AGN7, comes courtesy of the U.K.'s Indigo Virus (aka Brett Davis). There are six songs on Temple Beyond the Jungle, but the only one currently streaming is "Otherside," but I have to imagine it's a talisman for the rest of the record: a perfect blend of frenetic breakbeats, blissful atmospherics, and dreamy vocal samples.

Kathy Wieland, Skyliner
Ann Arbor's Kathy Wieland has been making music for a long time, but she could focus on it much more once she retired from her day job. I missed 2023's Skyliner when it came out, but I was tipped off to the country-folk singer-songwriter—who plays autoharp, banjo, and guitar—because she's performing on October 18 at the North Star Lounge.

Chris DuPont, "Take Me Home"
Fresh off his duo project with Kylee Phillips, Ypsi's Chris DuPont cut a solo cover of Phil Collins' beautiful ballad "Take Me Home." DuPont's version keeps the languid tempo and synth-oriented arrangement of the original, but his voice doesn't have Collins' distinctive rasp. DuPont's vocal softness gives the lyrics more of a pillow-talk quality, more like he's talking to a lover, which is a unique take since the original lyrical inspiration is sung from the point of view of a man who's been locked in a mental institution. (Collins also explored a different take on the song's meaning in the music video, which focuses on him being away from home during his world tour.)

Christopher Porter is a library technician and the editor of Pulp.