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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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Physical Media: Max Ax by Sculpture

The latest from Dan Hayhurst and Reuben Sutherland is simultaneously high art concept piece and a tremendous bit of fun, finds Antonio Poscic

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Magic Carpet Ride: Žaltys by Raphael Rogiński is Our Album of the Week

The latest from the Polish improviser-composer-researcher sees folk music shedding its skin and carving out spaces of opposition to the tyranny of the present, finds Bernie Brooks

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Golden Seams: Mahōgakkō by Hakushi Hasegawa is our Album of the Week

The new album from Brainfeeder Records’ latest signing is as dizzying, complex and contradictory as life itself, finds Claire Biddles

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Coming Up For Air: Sylphine Soporifera by Antonina Nowacka

The Polish sound artist's latest album evokes strange hypnagogic states formed from zithers, ocarinas, bamboo flutes, and whistles

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The Dot Connector: Anemones By Xylitol Is Our Album of the Week

Catherine Backhouse is equal parts scientist and artist on her joyous DIY record of ‘gutter kosmische’ for Planet Mu, writes Skye Butchard

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A Music of Shadows: Sheida Gharachedaghi Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind

Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better

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Utopia of the Suburbs: Stífluhringurinn by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

Major new work by the Icelandic composer and Slátur co-founder is inspired by an old hydro-electric dam that became a haven for birds and other wildlife

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Occupy Pop! Your Guide To Revolution by Mary Ocher

Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat, finds Ilia Rogatchevski

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Dig Deep – And See Where It Leads: What Is Not Strange by Tashi Wada

Working with Julia Holter, Corey Fogel, Ezra Buchla, Devin Hoff and a tuning system pinched off Jean-Philippe Rameau, LA-based composer Tashi Wada pushes song form into wild new directions

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Raw Power in Contemplation: Gnod’s Spot Land Reviewed

Gnod's new album is reminiscent of anything from Popol Vuh to Coil but, says Luke Turner, this isn't a contrary change in direction, but a sumptuous re-examination of what makes them so great

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Chthonic Resonator: At Fargrounds by Jacken Elswyth

The Shovel Dance Collective member, banjo player and instrument maker draws rich histories from deep in the wood, finds Tom Bolton

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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

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Il Gatto A Diciannove Canzoni: Nell’ Ora Blu By Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

Cambridgeshire rockers go full Giallo – with a little help from genre stars Franco Nero and Edwige Fenech. Photo by Karin Hunt

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New Play For A New Day: Kamasi Washington’s Fearless Movement

The Californian saxophonist finds political and musical inspiration in the ludic intensity of childhood games, finds Lottie Brazier

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Long Nows: Ghosted II By Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin

A second album from the improvising guitar-bass-drums trio will change your concept of time, finda Daryl Worthington

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Put A Konk On It: Spectra Volume 2 By ||ALA|MEDA||

Polish experiementalists (Stara Rzeka, Innercity Ensemble, and Alameda 5) team up with South African trio Phelimuncasi in a burst of bubbling notes and sheer elation, finds Antonio Poscic

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A Mighty Wind: Shabaka Hutchings’ Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

From Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings pivots to jazz flute with beguiling results

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