Album of the Week
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Album of the Week
A Greater Coming Together: Holly Herndon’s Proto
Often stories of new technology are laden with the anxiety of being replaced - being bettered by something that has a more calculable claim to existing, but with Proto, Holly Herndon explores the possibility of true collaboration with the mechanical
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More Fire! The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane become accelerating vectors , fast-forwarding jazz to new worlds on the new Comet is Coming album. But Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery could appeal just as well to clubbers, grime fans and football hooligans, finds Mike Vinti
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Party Politics: International Teachers Of Pop
Grim times breed great music, but not the kind that you might think. All those po-faced lads, sweating and grimacing their way through dreary derivative ‘political’ indie rock, are false prophets. If any band has a useful response to our current predicaments, it is these daft-as-fuck pop geniuses
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A New World Being Born – Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984
Following UK and European volumes, 60 left-of-the-dial electronic acts from 70s/80s North America, and another wildly enjoyable multi-disc compilation from veteran indie label turned licence maestros Cherry Red
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Strings Theory: Galya Bisengalieva’s EP One
Violinist and composer Laura Cannell explores a trio of new string compositions from the leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, previously a collaborator with Suzanne Ciani, Terry Riley, Thom Yorke and Frank Ocean, and a powerful force in new and primordial music
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Songs In The Wonky Of Life: Audiobooks’ Now! (In A Minute)
Is it the deep wonky weirdness that makes them amazing, or is it just that Evangeline Ling and David Wrench are two extraordinary musicians having a brilliant time? Either way, this debut album is a beautiful batshit triumph
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First True Love Affair: Autechre’s NTS Sessions
In April, Autechre gave us eight hours of new music across four shows on beloved London radio station NTS. Warp are releasing the sessions next week on vinyl, CD and digital; here Jackie Thompson explores her love for the experimental Rochdale pair
