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Anastasia Coope
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Verraco
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Earth Ball
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Earth Ball’s new salvo of heavyweight improvisation is both fully aggressive and fully life-affirming, says Bernie Brooks

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In this month's Low Culture Essay, Cathi Unsworth attends a beautiful night in tribute to Tim Smith of Cardiacs, speaking to those who knew, loved and played alongside this "musical Merlin".

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NikNak
Ireti

With cyberpunk themes and staticky beats, the turntable experimenter waxes ever more melodic with a cast of collaborators including Grifton Forbes-Amos, Cassie Kinoshi, Agaama, Chisara Agor and SlowPitchSound

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Kee Avil
Spine

The latest from Kee Avil finds the Montréal producer exploring wide open spaces, decorating them with closely-miked field recordings and breathily diaristic recantations, finds Jon Buckland

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Russian history, hip hop, the underbelly of Soho, TS Eliot and James Cagney collided on the dance floor of the Paradise Garage, says Matthew Lindsay, to create one of 1984's perfect singles

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The Devil in the Flesh: David Sylvian’s ‘Red Guitar’ at 40

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Sisso & Maiko
Singeli Ya Maajabu

Striaght out of Dar Es Salaam, bringing the blistering 200 BPM Technicolor sounds of singeli to the extended Nyege Nyege Tapes family

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Ex-Easter Island Head
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From astute use of simple ideas multiplied comes music with acute beauty, says Jakub Knera

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Billie Eilish
Hit Me Hard And Soft

New album shows an effortless ability to encompass the discrete worlds of bedroom musician and global arena-sized pop star, says CJ Thorpe-Tracey

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As Mike Skinner’s bestselling hip hop concept album celebrates its twentieth birthday, Fergal Kinney looks at how the Birmingham rapper plotted a commercial crossover moment that changed British music enduringly

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Wu-Lu
Learning To Swim On Empty

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Unnatural Blues: How Moby’s Play Predicted The Collapse Of The Music Industry

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Album of the Week: Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown

Beth Gibbons gives us the understanding of our mortality that we all need on her most revealing work, finds Puja Nandi

Black Sky Thinking

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JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection

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Balkan folk songs wrapped in howls of noise makes a beautiful coherence between tradition and modernity, finds Jeremy Allen

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Solo Throat

London's multi-talented, serial collaborator (George Lewis, Apartment House, Moor Mother, David Toop, Jason Yarde) finds physical, bodily meaning deep within the words of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard

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The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed

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Anastasia Coope
Darning Woman

Verraco
Breathe… Godpseed

Earth Ball
It's Yours

NikNak
Ireti

Kee Avil
Spine

Sisso & Maiko
Singeli Ya Maajabu

Ex-Easter Island Head
Norther

Billie Eilish
Hit Me Hard And Soft

Wu-Lu
Learning To Swim On Empty

Gordan
Gordan

Elaine Mitchener
Solo Throat

Dennis Bovell
Sufferer Sounds