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The End of the World: Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez is Our Album of the Week

On their third album together, the theorist-poet and the bassist-composer go beyond music towards a total reconsideration of the world

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Cracks in the Normal: A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals

Hunkered down in their basement studio, the Baltimore rapper-producers may have come up with their angriest, messiest, and most deliriously experimental album to date, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Spellbound: Hexed! by Aya is our Album of the Week

On her thrilling second album, Aya's abrasive mix of techno, UK bass, noise and industrial becomes a surgical tool for explorations of trauma and identity

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A Gilded Palace of Sin: Goldstar by Imperial Triumphant

New York metal power trio hone their wild off-kilter excursions into a set of lean, mean pummelling machines, as decadent as your life

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Me, Myself and I: Halo on the Inside by Circuit des Yeux

The latest reinvention of Haley Fohr finds the Indiana-born singer-composer taking a headlong dive into her own inner world, coming back for air with an album of commanding physicality

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Album of the Week: Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian’s Noor-e Vojood

The second album by a young master of the tanbur reminds Kamyar Salavati of a special trip to the mountains of Kermanshah in Iran

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Human After All: City of Clowns by Marie Davidson

Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s critique of 'surveillance capitalism', the Canadian artist makes electronic music for people, not algorithms, finds Will Salmon

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Holy Holy Holy: Ghost/Spirit by Jules Reidy is Our Album of the Week

Berlin-based Judith Hamman, Sam Dunscombe and Andrea Belfi collaborator finds mystical solace in the chaotic energy of guitar and voice

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More Than Real: End of the Middle by Richard Dawson

The bard of Newcastle upon Tyne in stripped-back, bare-bones mode delivers his most intimate – and perhaps his best – album to date, finds Tom Bolton

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The Evil That Men Do: Cowards by Squid

Brighton post-punks get weirder, wilder and more exploratory with age, finds Cal Cashin

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The Whole of the Dog: Decius Vol II – Splendour & Obedience is Our Album of the Week

Fat White Family-adjacent club rats prove more sensual the second time around, finds Jon Buckland

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Pure Sensation: Eusexua by FKA twigs is our Album of the Week

The English's artist's third full-length record makes a compelling case for the liberation offered by the dancefloor, finds Claire Biddles

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Down on the Farm: Parchman Prison Prayer is our Album of the Week

Subtitled 'Another Mississippi Sunday Morning', this record of prisoners' songs is folk music like you've never heard it before

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The Greak Dark: Perverts by Ethel Cain

The American artist also known as Hayden Silas Anhedönia digs deep into the twilit territories of Southern Gothic fiction and experimental drone

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Where Are We Now? The Night by Saint Etienne

Designed for headphone listening, the latest transmission from Bob, Pete and Sarah sounds like hearing Saint Etienne in a dream, finds Tom Bolton

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Dulce et Indecorum: Throbbing Gristle in Berlin

A new boxset from England's notorious "wreckers of civlization" gathers together live recordings and unreleased studio material from the time of their brief mid-00s reunion. Dale Cornish finds the group as wonderfully indigestible as ever

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Mmmm: Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble present Versionland

A new composition performed by London’s Phaedra Ensemble is inspired by a curious sonic phenomenon known as The Hum. Vanessa Ague investigates

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The Poison Was the Cure: Religious Equipment by Quiet Husband

Richie Culver may have named all the tracks after the contents of his medicine cabinet, but his latest album fizzes with a palpable anxiety

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Excellences & Perfections: Young-Girl Forever by Sofie Royer

Drawing on Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, the Austrian artist and musician deftly deconstructs ideas around femininity, pop music – and herself (without skimping on the good times and great tunes)

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Leave The Ground Behind: Lili Holland-Fricke & Sean Rogan’s Dear Alien

Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know you needed

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Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

The latest album from Robert Smith & co feels unstuck in time, but taken on its own terms it’s as urgent and compelling as ever, finds Ned Raggett

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Post-Whatever: You Never End by Moin is our Album of the Week

Joined by a slew of collaborators, from Coby Sey to Sophia Al-Maria, the London trio have made one of the most forward-looking guitar albums of the year

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Deep Deep Down: J Spaceman & John Coxon’s Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton

Jason Pierce and fellow Spiritualized member Coxon take a trip into Old Weird America for a strange encounter with the flipside of the American dream

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Slippery Eels: Muuntautuja by Oranssi Pazuzu

With its squelchy electronics, post-trip-hop beats and black metal roar, this might be the Finnish quintet’s shortest album, but it’s also their most expansive and experimental, finds Kez Whelan

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Winds Of Change: Memorial Waterslides by Memorials is our Album of the Week

Following soundtracks for Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Gonzalez, and Kevin Hegge, members of Wire and Electrelane unite for a new project that has Will Salmon under its strange spell

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Falling Into Place: Xiu Xiu’s 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips

It may be the duo's most accessible album in years, but it sacrifices none of their signature weird intensity, finds Claire Biddles

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Back to the Future: Atlas of Green by Dialect

Andrew PM Hunt, of Ex-Easter Island Head, Outfit, and Land Trance, imagines far-flung worlds through glitches, whistles, and the chirruping of birds

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Album Of The Week: Rack by The Jesus Lizard

If you're going to come back, then come back at full strength, says Jon Buckland on listening to the band's vigorous and brilliant seventh album Rack

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Nothing But The Truth: Toda la Verdad sobre Dame Area by Dame Area

The Catalan duo’s brutal post-industrial style captures the spirit of the now-legendary club it rose from, writes Skye Butchard

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Practical Magic: The Self-Titled Debut by Tristwch Y Fenywod

Featuring members of Guttersnipe, Hawthonn, and Slaylor Moon, Tristwch Y Fenywod spin wild, esoteric fables (with just a touch of disco)

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Anatomy of a Fall: A Grand Stream by Smote

Smote's fourth LP is almost hallucinatory in its psychedelic repetition, practically drawing tracers across the stereo field, says Bernie Brooks

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Proud Muddle of Desire: A Firmer Hand by Hamish Hawk

Harder, more brutal, more honest, the third Hamish Hawk record grasps the nettle

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Spectres of the Spectrum: Damaged by Ghost Dubs is our Album of the Week

Haunted by the ruins of industry, pounding with low-end sonics, Michael Fiedler’s latest is heavy with subterranean grooves and chthonic sonics, finds Jon Buckland

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The End of the World: Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez is Our Album of the Week

Cracks in the Normal: A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals

Spellbound: Hexed! by Aya is our Album of the Week

A Gilded Palace of Sin: Goldstar by Imperial Triumphant

Me, Myself and I: Halo on the Inside by Circuit des Yeux

Album of the Week: Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian’s Noor-e Vojood

Human After All: City of Clowns by Marie Davidson

Holy Holy Holy: Ghost/Spirit by Jules Reidy is Our Album of the Week

More Than Real: End of the Middle by Richard Dawson

The Evil That Men Do: Cowards by Squid

The Whole of the Dog: Decius Vol II – Splendour & Obedience is Our Album of the Week

Pure Sensation: Eusexua by FKA twigs is our Album of the Week

Down on the Farm: Parchman Prison Prayer is our Album of the Week

The Greak Dark: Perverts by Ethel Cain

Where Are We Now? The Night by Saint Etienne

Dulce et Indecorum: Throbbing Gristle in Berlin

Mmmm: Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble present Versionland

The Poison Was the Cure: Religious Equipment by Quiet Husband

Excellences & Perfections: Young-Girl Forever by Sofie Royer

Leave The Ground Behind: Lili Holland-Fricke & Sean Rogan’s Dear Alien

Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

Post-Whatever: You Never End by Moin is our Album of the Week

Deep Deep Down: J Spaceman & John Coxon’s Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton

Slippery Eels: Muuntautuja by Oranssi Pazuzu

Winds Of Change: Memorial Waterslides by Memorials is our Album of the Week

Falling Into Place: Xiu Xiu’s 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips

Back to the Future: Atlas of Green by Dialect

Album Of The Week: Rack by The Jesus Lizard

Nothing But The Truth: Toda la Verdad sobre Dame Area by Dame Area

Practical Magic: The Self-Titled Debut by Tristwch Y Fenywod

Anatomy of a Fall: A Grand Stream by Smote

Proud Muddle of Desire: A Firmer Hand by Hamish Hawk

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Iti Eta No

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