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Weed & Beats: Giant Swan’s Debut Album Reviewed

After a string of singles and EPs for Whities, Fuckpunk and Howling Owl Records, Bristol duo Giant Swan release their eponymous debut album and it's a brutal, intoxicating listen

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The Heroine’s Journey: Jane Weaver’s Fenella Rekindles Old Myths

Taking inspiration from Hungarian animation masterpiece, *Fehérlófia* – and England's "first lady of the double entendre", Fenella Fielding, Jane Weaver's latest project is full of utopian potential, finds Danijela Bočev

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Pants On Fire: Fibs By Anna Meredith

The new album by Anna Meredith is a boundary-crossing, multiphagous masterpiece, finds Anna Cafolla

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I Am A Strange Loop: On Battles’ Juice B Crypts

Distilled yet further, into a duo of Ian Williams and John Stanier, the new Battles’ record finds the band revitalised and redefined, finds Sean Kitching

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Crocus In The Machine: Blossoms By Emptyset

Regardless of how you feel about AI-derived music, a strong sense of perpetual emergence makes Emptyset's latest LP, *Blossoms*, an especially remarkable listen, says Kristen Gallerneaux

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Wonderland: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ ‘Ghosteen’ Reviewed

On his new album, Nick Cave conjures a profound and powerful sense of wonder. This is a record of coping, writes Patrick Clarke, not closure.

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Beyond Good & Evil: Breaching Lightning Bolt’s Sonic Citadel

Twenty-five years and seven albums in, Sonic Citadel finds Lightning Bolt making some of the best music of their career, says Bernie Brooks

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On The Way To A Love Supreme: John Coltrane’s Blue World

It may not be the holy grail such things inevitably get touted as, but this long lost John Coltrane cut, originally recorded in 1964, remains fascinating and valuable, finds Peter Margasak

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High-Rise, Low-End: For You And I By Loraine James

Last year's Oram Awards winner Loraine James makes her debut on Hyperdub with a joyous blast of electronically generated melodies and spindizzy beats. Noel Gardner is suitably impressed

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Hungry Ghosts: Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier’s Corpse Flower

A collaboration between two titans provides plenty of revelations, finds Jeremy Allen

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Songs Of Incexprence: Kemper Norton’s Brunton Calciner

Kemper Norton’s latest LP, brunton calciner, is a transfixing ode to transformative processes told through local history, customs, and folklore, says Bernie Brooks

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Grave Threat: Pharmakon’s Devour

The fourth album by New Yorker Margaret Chardiet – aka Pharmakon – finds new horrors to explore, finds Amanda Farah

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Destructive Urges: Debby Friday’s Death Drive

Featuring collaborations with Lana Del Rabies and Chino Amobi, Debby Friday's latest tape for Deathbomb Arc is a visceral howl into the unknown, finds Yewande Adeniran

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Bodies That Matter: Sleater-Kinney’s Visceral New Pop

Sleater-Kinney return with their ninth studio album – and with St Vincent brought in on production duties, it's a glint of shiny pop in a fug of searing vitriol, finds Anna Cafolla

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Trance Formers: I Is The New Album By Föllakzoid

On fourth album, I, Föllakzoid’s music swells and convulses with desert spectres and spirits, finds Cal Cashin

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Memes To An End: Oli XL’s Anxious Electronica

Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer, the debut album by Stockholm’s Oli XL, routes despondency through relatable humour, finds Zac Cazes

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Into The Nerve Ganglion: Mark Fisher & Justin Barton On Vanishing Land

On the first release from Hyperdub's new spoken word sublabel, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton journey from Felixstowe to Sutton Hoo with the music of Raime, Gazelle Twin, Mordant Music, and John Foxx

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That Which Cannot Be Said: Caligula By Lingua Ignota

CALIGULA, the new album by LINGUA IGNOTA plunges into the ocean with the visionary force of the 12th century mystic who inspired it

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The Horror Of Folk: Bobby Krlic’s Midsommar Score

The music for Ari Aster's Midsommar, by the Haxan Cloak aka Bobby Krlic, reflects our changing perspectives of the horrors of humanity, finds Lara C Cory

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Deep Time: The Shifting Force Fields Of Ellen Arkbro’s CHORDS

While walking along the riverbank, listening to CHORDS by Ellen Arkbro, Aaron Skates finds his sense of time and place subtly transformed

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Boom Boom Boom (Way-Ooh): Schlagenheim by Black Midi

Young noise wranglers Black Midi are making good on their promise, finds Cal Cashin

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Prince In A Camisole: Undressing The ‘Originals’ Album

Prince's newly released Originals album is a window into the artist's relationship with his female avatars

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Lonesome Valley High: Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

It's been a while, but the artist formerly known as Smog is back with a new double album of peculiarly American romanticism, finds David Hering

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Fantastic Planet: Vanishing Twin And The Age Of Immunology

Vanishing Twin take us all on a trip to a strange new world with their latest album, The Age of Immunology

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Voyage Of The Upsetter: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & On-U Sound Go To The Moon

Rainford, the new album by Lee 'Scratch' Perry goes some way to revealing the man behind the myth, finds Adam Quarshie

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Trouble Everyday: Sirens By Kevin Richard Martin

On his first album under his own name, Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) offers up a record of unparalleled intimacy and sensitivity, finds Euan Andrews

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Books For Burning: Four Bibles By Hey Colossus

After fifteen years together, Hey Colossus are still switching things up, changing lanes, shifting perspective, but still as electric as ever, finds Amanda Farah. Photo by Julie R Kane.

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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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A Better Tomorrow: Caterina Barbieri’s Ecstatic Computation

The latest from Italian composer Caterina Barbieri reignites electronic music's utopian spark, finds Joseph Burnett

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Star Spangled Bangers: Big Wows By Stealing Sheep

For their third album, Liverpool's Stealing Sheep blow up the pop form to bold, voltaic proportions, finds Anna Rahkonen

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Fat White Family Hit Paydirt: Serfs Up! Reviewed

Adelle Stripe feels the caressing sting of Fat White Family’s triumphant third album

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Masters Of The Ecstatic – Life Metal By Sunn O)))

On their eighth studio album, Life Metal, Seattle's Sunn O))) prove once again that the greatest art is often simultaneously deadly serious and utterly ridiculous, finds Luke Turner

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Pants On Fire: Fibs By Anna Meredith

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Crocus In The Machine: Blossoms By Emptyset

Wonderland: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ ‘Ghosteen’ Reviewed

Beyond Good & Evil: Breaching Lightning Bolt’s Sonic Citadel

On The Way To A Love Supreme: John Coltrane’s Blue World

High-Rise, Low-End: For You And I By Loraine James

Hungry Ghosts: Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier’s Corpse Flower

Songs Of Incexprence: Kemper Norton’s Brunton Calciner

Grave Threat: Pharmakon’s Devour

Destructive Urges: Debby Friday’s Death Drive

Bodies That Matter: Sleater-Kinney’s Visceral New Pop

Trance Formers: I Is The New Album By Föllakzoid

Memes To An End: Oli XL’s Anxious Electronica

Into The Nerve Ganglion: Mark Fisher & Justin Barton On Vanishing Land

That Which Cannot Be Said: Caligula By Lingua Ignota

The Horror Of Folk: Bobby Krlic’s Midsommar Score

Deep Time: The Shifting Force Fields Of Ellen Arkbro’s CHORDS

Boom Boom Boom (Way-Ooh): Schlagenheim by Black Midi

Prince In A Camisole: Undressing The ‘Originals’ Album

Lonesome Valley High: Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

Fantastic Planet: Vanishing Twin And The Age Of Immunology

Voyage Of The Upsetter: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & On-U Sound Go To The Moon

Trouble Everyday: Sirens By Kevin Richard Martin

Books For Burning: Four Bibles By Hey Colossus

A Greater Coming Together: Holly Herndon’s Proto

A Better Tomorrow: Caterina Barbieri’s Ecstatic Computation

Star Spangled Bangers: Big Wows By Stealing Sheep

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