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Deftones
Private Music

90s nu-metal survivors indulge in a séance, but the ghost they are summoning is… themselves?

Meitei
Sen’nyū

An album of ambient music composed of flutes, drones and field recordings, inspired by Japanese onsen culture – best listened to while lazing in the bath

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Water From Your Eyes
It’s A Beautiful Place

They’ll take your brain to another dimension. Pay close attention

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Wolf Alice
The Clearing

The award scoopers’ fourth album fails to live up to its bombastic lead single, says JR Moores

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Various Artists
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego

Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic

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Mondo Lava
Utero Dei

Cassette fuzz and future folk get blended with sci-fi jazz and Afro-Latin devotional grooves in a wild Burroughsian cut-up

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Panopticon
Laurentian Blue / Songs of Hiraeth

Austin Lunn splits the folk and metal sides of his project into twin albums – with mixed results

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Andrew Nolan
Monochrome Vol. 2: Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion

Solo work from The Body and Full of Hell collaborator experiments in noise, hip hop and all points in-between

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Babymetal
Metal Forth

They may not have saved the world, but the new Babymetal record is an absolute hoot, finds JR Moores

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No Joy
Bugland

Restless French-Canadian one-woman-band teams up with Fire-Toolz to wreak havoc in the digital uncanny valley

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Horses 4K
Nina

Equine-themed album mixes country-style lap steel with some wild electronic processing

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Tony Njoku
All Our Knives Are Always Sharp

With features from Tricky, James Massiah, and Ghostpoet, the latest album by the London-based composer-producer combines liquid coos with vaporous electronics, finds Eden Tizard

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Farshad Akbari
Echoes of Nothingness

Squealing bleeps, synthesized winds and melancholy themes evoke an arid desert soundscape on the latest album from the Iranian-born electronic music composer

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Ethel Cain
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Combining the dream pop Americana of Preacher's Daughter with the drones and experiments of Perverts, the Florida-born singer-songwriter-producer may just have come up with her most realised project to date, finds Cal Cashin

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Bitterviper
Bitterviper

Richly marbled drones, time-stretched post-rock, cello harmonics and ghostly synth on the debut collaborative album from David Grubbs, Sarah Hennies, Nikos Veliotis and Taku Unami

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Amaarae
Black Star

The new album from the Ghanaian-American singer and songwriter preaches liberation through excess, with guest spots from PinkPantheress, Naomi Campbell, Charlie Wilson, Bree Runway and Starkillers

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Leo Chadburn
Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator

The composer (fka Simon Bookish) evokes visionary worlds from the ruins of Leicestershire's coal mining and power-generating past

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Wombo
Danger in Fives

As the Louisville, Kentucky trio pushbeyond the punk rock structures of their debut, it’s theunique phrasing of singer Sydney Chadwick that come to the fore, finds Amanda Farah

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Manslaughter 777
God’s World

Manslaughter 777’s second LP is a full-on bacchanalia of breaks and plundered vocal hooks, says Bernie Brooks

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Che
REST IN BASS

The 18-year-old Atlanta rapper may be trap's next biggest rockstar. His latest album is a dizzying rush of overstimulated beats and frazzled synths, finds Eden Tizard

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Khaled Kurbeh
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [To Each Space Its Own Rhythm]

The Syrian composer's solo debut sees fragments of jangling bells, cracking seeds and FM synthesis combine to make a cohesive tapestry with a rich emotional resonance, finds Jon Buckland

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Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Welcome first re-release for a prized Benin-Mali collaboration

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Nadeem Din-Gabisi
Offshore

Big choruses and big energy elevate approaching themes of themes of Black identity, cultural displacement, and spiritual resilience with a refined sense of composition and arrangement, finds Mary Chiney

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MC Yallah & Debmaster
Gaudencia

A second full-length with French producer Debmaster, sees MC Yallah stretches out into new realms of possibility

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Pharaoh Overlord
Louhi

Go loud or go home – the blistering Finnish rock band are back. Get ready for some weaponised phlegm and stoner-kosmische

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Forth Wanderers
The Longer This Goes On

After seven years, the New Jersey quintet return older, wiser but just as rough and ready, finds Archie Forde

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$ilkMoney
Who Waters The Wilting Giving Tree Once The Leaves Dry Up And Fruits No Longer Bear?

A concept album inspired by Shel Silverstein’s children’s book, The Giving Tree, proves the former Divine Council rapper still has plenty to say

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Various Artists
For Gaza With Love Vol. 1

Benefit compilation for the PalMed Academy in Gaza features new music from Rich Dawson, Belle and Sebastian, and others

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Xeeland
Master Builder

Jason Stoll, of Sex Swing and Bonnacons Of Doom, makes an apt soundtrack for the quaking concrete of brutalist buildings

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Wevie Stonder
Sure Beats Living

Fifteen years after their last record, the plunderphonic Skam Records still have the capacity to surprise and delight, finds Jon Buckland

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Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka
Hiraeth

Largely improvised to tape in the small Polish village of Sokołowsko, the duo's second album feels exploratory and experimental in the truest sense, finds Jakub Knera

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Gina Birch
Trouble

On her second solo album, the defiant polymath plays her bass even louder

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Qur’an Shaheed
Pulse

The Pasadena artists pulls and stretches r'n'b into strange and psychedelic new shapes

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Deftones
Private Music

Meitei
Sen’nyū

Water From Your Eyes
It’s A Beautiful Place

Wolf Alice
The Clearing

Various Artists
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego

Mondo Lava
Utero Dei

Panopticon
Laurentian Blue / Songs of Hiraeth

Andrew Nolan
Monochrome Vol. 2: Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion

Babymetal
Metal Forth

No Joy
Bugland

Horses 4K
Nina

Tony Njoku
All Our Knives Are Always Sharp

Farshad Akbari
Echoes of Nothingness

Ethel Cain
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Bitterviper
Bitterviper

Amaarae
Black Star

Leo Chadburn
Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator

Wombo
Danger in Fives

Manslaughter 777
God’s World

Che
REST IN BASS

Khaled Kurbeh
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [To Each Space Its Own Rhythm]

Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Nadeem Din-Gabisi
Offshore

MC Yallah & Debmaster
Gaudencia

Pharaoh Overlord
Louhi

Forth Wanderers
The Longer This Goes On

$ilkMoney
Who Waters The Wilting Giving Tree Once The Leaves Dry Up And Fruits No Longer Bear?

Various Artists
For Gaza With Love Vol. 1

Xeeland
Master Builder

Wevie Stonder
Sure Beats Living

Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka
Hiraeth

Gina Birch
Trouble

Qur’an Shaheed
Pulse

Wolf Alice
The Clearing

Deftones
Private Music

Various Artists
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego