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Lyra Pramuk
Hymnal

Inspired by dancefloors and slime moulds, the latest album from the multidisciplinary American artist is as opulent and heady as the music mushrooms themselves might make, finds Antonio Poscic

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Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club
Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword

Singaporean iconoclasts prove that hip-hop is (the) world('s) music

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Mary Halvorson
About Ghosts

The New England guitarist beefs up her ensemble for a stunning suite of modern jazz instrumentals

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Holy Scum
All We Have is Never

Members of GNOD, Ghold and Dâlek assemble for a brutal broadside against 'fancy music'

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John Surman and Karin Krog
Electric Element

Jazz vocalist Karin Krog and saxophonist John Surman branch out into glitchy, experimental electronics on this newly unearthed cut from 2013

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Alan Sparhawk
With Trampled By Turtles

The best songs on Alan Sparhawk’s second post-Low ‘solo’ album are unforgettable, triggering gut punches, says Bernie Brooks

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Quinton Barnes
Black Noise

The Montreal producer fuses ambience and elegance in a highly charged exploration of Afropessimism

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Briana Marela
My Inner Rest

Straight out of Mills College, this eerie song cycle nods to the bubbling electronics of Laurie Spiegel

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Cosey Fanni Tutti
2t2

Composed, performed and produced fully by the artist herself, the new album by Cosey Fanni Tutti is equal parts abstract electronic experimentation and rhythmic propulsion, finds Jon Buckland

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Holden & Zimpel
The Universe Will Take Care Of You

Collaborators James and Waclaw create vast oceanc feelings using walnuts and teacups

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Ben LaMar Gay
Yowzers

The Chicago cornet player and composer smashes open contemporary jazz, pouring in a host of different styles, from samba to the blues

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Monasunne
Fields Become Sky

The past erupts into the present as composers Lara Agar and Louis d’Heudières go truffling through the teeming undergrowth of East Anglia

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Matthew Young
Undercurrents

Following re-issues of his 1980s album Recurring Dreams and Traveler's Advisory, Drag City release new material by the New Jersey dulcimer player and electroacoustic composer

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Emptyset
Dissever

Commissioned for Tate Modern's Electric Dreams exhibition, Paul Purgas and James Ginzburg turn the building's giant Turbine Hall into a buzzing, pulsating, resonant instrument

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Death in Vegas
Death Mask

1990s indie-dance survivor Richard Fearless returns with a record that offers a glimpse of something more personal beneath the clattering drum machines and psychedelic organ sounds

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Abul Mogard
Quiet Pieces

The latest from Guido Zen's ambient alterego evokes the colourfields of abstract art, finds Aydin Khalili

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Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
Гільдеґарда (Hildergard)

Recorded in a Cistercian abbey, electronic producer Oleh Shkudeiko joins forces with Ukrainian vocalist Andriana-yaroslava Saienko to pay tribute to the 12th-century German mystic

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Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief

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Smerz
Big City Life

Norwegian anti-pop duo send voice notes from the abyss of the contemporary mediascape

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Ammar 808
Club Tounsi

From Tunisia via Denmark, Sofyann Ben Youssef matches Arabic scales and Sufi hymns to vintage drum machines and club-ready production styles

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Daniel O’Sullivan
Eros

Backed by a 14-piece classical ensemble, the Grumbling Fur member's latest is both rather whimsical and rather beautiful, finds Ed Power

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These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

On their fifth album, the brothers Barnett tap into a peculiarly English unusual, channeling their unique romanticism towards new forms of intensity

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Water Damage
Instruments

Austin-based motorik supergroup (feat. David Grubbs, Patrick Shiroishi and Thor Harris) ascend to the astral plane

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Karman Line Collective
To Be

Wolfgang Buttress and friends follow the bees’ lead on an album full of apian tooting, quacking and purring

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The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

The smell of Benson & Hedges ashtrays pervades these early concert recordings, personally selected by the dream team of Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon

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Goddess
Goddess

Savages' Fay Milton delivers a hymn to 'feminine energy', with guest spots from Salvia, Isabel Muñoz-Newsome, Delilah Holliday and others

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I’m Being Good
Shapeshitter

Nine albums and the best part of four decades in, the Brighton noiseniks continue to confound and appal in equal measure with a record of brutish riffs and sudden explosions

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Ash Fure
Animal

Award-winning composer strikes at the palpable physical presence of sound

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Cole Pulice
Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver's sax player goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

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Billy Woods
Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

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Quinquis
eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

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Moin
Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

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Red Mar
Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

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Lyra Pramuk
Hymnal

Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club
Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword

Mary Halvorson
About Ghosts

Holy Scum
All We Have is Never

John Surman and Karin Krog
Electric Element

Alan Sparhawk
With Trampled By Turtles

Quinton Barnes
Black Noise

Briana Marela
My Inner Rest

Cosey Fanni Tutti
2t2

Holden & Zimpel
The Universe Will Take Care Of You

Ben LaMar Gay
Yowzers

Monasunne
Fields Become Sky

Matthew Young
Undercurrents

Emptyset
Dissever

Death in Vegas
Death Mask

Abul Mogard
Quiet Pieces

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
Гільдеґарда (Hildergard)

Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

Smerz
Big City Life

Ammar 808
Club Tounsi

Daniel O’Sullivan
Eros

These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

Water Damage
Instruments

Karman Line Collective
To Be

The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

Goddess
Goddess

I’m Being Good
Shapeshitter

Ash Fure
Animal

Cole Pulice
Land’s End Eternal

Billy Woods
Golliwog

Quinquis
eor

Moin
Belly Up

Red Mar
Our Low Cell