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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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Mad World: Julia Holter’s Aviary

On Julia Holter’s brilliant and timely new album, traditions and structures are overturned, the apocalypse feels imminent, and there are waves of euphoria among the chaos. Sound familiar?

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His Grainy Voice: REM Reviewed By Lonelady

This week sees the release of REM At The BBC, a boxset of studio and live recordings spanning 35 years. Here, Julie Campbell aka Lonelady reflects on a lifetime of loving Michael Stipe and his band

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Realist Of A Larger Reality: Todd Barton’s Multum In Parvo

On the Blue Tapes label, an endlessly rich new composition from the Buchla artist and Ursula K Le Guin collaborator

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Hyperglobal, Hyperlocal: Kode9 & Burial’s Fabriclive 100

Zooming across decades and continents, the south London producer and the Hyperdub label boss deliver a 75-minute treasure trove for the very last mix in the Fabriclive series

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Obtuse Angles: Gazelle Twin’s Pastoral

On her latest extraordinary album, Elizabeth Bernholz serves the full English with extra discomfort, grotesquery and barely contained horror

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Escape Notes: Szun Waves’ New Hymn To Freedom

Adding to the UK’s growing and majestic jazz scenes, this trio stop time and head for the stars with synths, drums and saxophone

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We Show All The Way Up: Blood Orange’s Negro Swan

On his fourth album as Blood Orange, Devonté Hynes moves further into beautiful expressions of queer black experience, playing, experimenting and collaborating with Janet Mock, Asap Rocky, Puff Daddy, TeiShi and more.

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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

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Baby Wants To Ride: Gabe Gurnsey’s Physical

Gabe Gurnsey, one half of Factory Floor, has moved up North and made a rave album. It is filthy and brilliant, immaculate and unsettling

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Take Back Him Crown: Gaika’s Basic Volume

A vital debut that captures a dark, uncertain time, but counters with grace, nerve, and a spine-tingling call to arms

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Techno Of The Ancients: Capitol K’s Goatherder

A wonderful dance album: recorded in a Maltese cave with fennel stalks and a bamboo panpipe, but full of squelching London rave juice

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The Personal & The Political: Lotic’s Power

On their second album, Lotic leaps into a new place of strength, vulnerability, distorted bass, stuttering beats and beautiful vocals

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Shine Bright: Okzharp & Manthe Ribane’s Closer Apart

Out tomorrow on the Hyperdub label, a rock-hard sparkling album from London, Johannesburg and Cape Town

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We Got This: Let’s Eat Grandma’s I’m All Ears

Walton and Hollingworth’s second album is a richly chaotic collection of warped weirdo pop

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Making Space: Kamasi Washington’s Heaven & Earth

The tenor saxophonist and bandleader expands into new terrestrial and celestial places, drawing from rich seams of funk, soul, hip-hop and free jazz

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Techno For An Answer: Blawan’s Wet Will Always Dry

He’s made a load of deliciously cantankerous EPs and now he’s blowing our grateful minds with a debut album of dense, twitching techno

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Wizard Kid: Gruff Rhys’s Babelsberg

Mr Super Furry, now on his fifth solo album, weaves magic from threads of Nashville, AOR and folksy counterculture: he is always exploring, and always enchanting

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Dream Story: Jenny Hval’s The Long Sleep

Vast and delicate, cosmic and prosaic, full of reprises and repetitions, this four-track EP is a gorgeous exploration of unknowns

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Bigger Than Reality: The Last Poets’ Understand What Black Is

They formed exactly 50 years ago, during a hot summer of resistance, became part of the Black Power movement and created the DNA for hip hop. Now they’re back, as relevant and righteous as ever

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Precious Metal: The Body’s I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer

Portland duo Chip King and Lee Buford dig deeper and travel further in pursuit of more extreme, more experimental and more visceral music

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Down To Earth: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids’ An Angel Fell

On their second album for Strut, the San Francisco bandleader and his Pyramids tackle injustice, brutality and global destruction - and give us a sweet glimpse of redemption

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Do I Need To Wear A Crash Helmet?: GNOD’s Chapel Perilous

The glorious berserk pulverisers are on a winning streak, and this album is easily one of their greatest

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To Make You Think, To Make You Dance: Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer

What’s the difference between trying to sound like Prince and continuing the dirty beautiful proud dance-and-fuck-and-love-yourself legacy of Prince? Janelle Monáe knows

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Heavenly: Emma Tricca’s St Peter

On her third album - in cahoots with Steve Shelley, Jason Victor and Judy Collins - Emma Tricca finds a startling and sublime new sound

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Carefully Selected Angles: Mouse On Mars’ Dimensional People

The Düsseldorf duo celebrate 25 years in the game with their 11th album. It’s completely satisfying, occasionally thrilling, and their best work in a decade, says John Doran