Daniel O'Sullivan is unstoppable. Perhaps best known as part of Grumbling Fur, his duo with Alexander Tucker, the composer and multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with everyone from Danish experimentalists Ulver and reactivated post-punks This Is Not This Heat, to minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine. The lushly psychedelic chamber pop of O'Sullivan's second solo album Folly taps into a visionary continuum that encompasses Talk Talk, Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins and Judee Sill.

Produced by Julian Cope, Coil and Spiritualised associate Thighpaulsandra, Folly emerged out of an intense period in O'Sullivan's life. 'It all got very real, babies being born, friends passing away,' the London-based musician reflects. 'The themes kind of presented themselves to me; I didn't have to go looking for them. I'm quite obsessed with arrangements these days, so Folly is my early foray into that world, [at least] in the context of songwriting.'

O'Sullivan links his interest in arranging to his concept of music as a mirror of the body. 'I had a bit of a revelation about [the piano]. I started to see each finger as a human voice, and I started to hear the harmonic complexity of certain suspensions. So I became fixated on this symbiosis of the body and the instrument, and how one, in the role conduit, can change the shape it wants to take.'

If there's an overarching theme to Folly, it's what O'Sullivan calls 'the communion of polarity.' 'I'm curious about the embracing of paradox,' he says, 'like joy and suffering, or intimacy and alienation, or even something as simple as love and hate. It dawns on you that when extreme things happen in your life, such as a friend dying, or a child being born, this sense of gnosis, this play of opposites is trying to present itself. Music is an opportunity to put these emotions and these anomalies into some sort of vessel so you're not harbouring them, they're not eating you up. Therapy can work for some people, but I find non-language based energetic forms are more effective for me. Music has always been my outlet, my medicine, and I think it has this incredible potential to heal.'

Folly came out in April on Tim Burgess' O Genesis label. The Charlatans frontman describes O'Sullivan as a force of nature. 'He has so many ideas and is amazingly generous with his knowledge.' Joining O'Sullivan on his Glasgow date are label-mates Richard Youngs and The Silver Field. 'Richard Youngs live is something I think everybody should experience,' says Burgess. 'No two shows are the same and the audience are as much a part of it as Richard is, at times.' The Silver Field, the dreamlike project of experimental multi-instrumentalist Coral Rose, had Burgess hooked from the first listen. 'I asked if we could release something. Before long there was a full album in front of me and it's one of my favourite albums of the year. It's hard to find a typical O Genesis record but they all have a sense of excitement about them.'