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Album of the Week

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The Universe Is Wrong: Love In Constant Spectacle By Jane Weaver

Drawing on her broadest sonic palette yet, Love In Constant Spectacle finds Jane Weaver at her most compelling and her most personal, finds Amanda Farah

Album of the Week

Dancer In The Dark: Pattern Damage By Bianca Scout

The Newcastle-born, south London-based producer draws on her background in contemporary dance for an album of chopped loops and murmured voices

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Written On Skin: Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves

The latest album from Julia Holter, full of twinkling synths and muted brass, is an exercise in being fully present, finds Laura Cannell

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Building Back Better: New Monuments By Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

Kidambi’s third album with the NYC-based collective was forged in the crucible of the 2020 Black Lives Matters protests, making for the group's most overtly political record yet

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Staying With The Trouble: The Collective by Kim Gordon

The hip hop-adjacent second solo album from the ex-Sonic Youth linchpin perfectly captures modernity’s constant buzz of anxiety, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Deeper And Deeper: Ministry of Tall Tales By Sote

On the latest album of digital wizardry from Tehran-based electronic producer Sote, nothing is quite what it seems, finds Oliver Cookson

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To Hear Hearing: Spectral Evolution By Rafael Toral Is Our Album Of The Week

Drawing together the threads of three decades’ patient exploration, the Portuguese experimental composer invites you into a teeming world of sound

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Beach Boy: Springs Eternal By William Doyle

Doyle's latest may be his most immediate and most earnest yet, finds Alexander Leissle

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Parklife! Chapultepec By NAAFI Founder Lao Is Our Album Of The Week

This nineteen-track collection of dance cuts was made in tribute to Mexico City’s largest park. It’s an ideal introduction to Lao’s adventurous club music, writes Skye Butchard

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One Foot In The Grave: Celestial Devastation By Cower

Featuring members of Pet Brick, The Ghost of a Thousand and Silent Front, the new Cower is giving goth for grown-ups, finds JR Moores

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Whirling In Space: The Cosmic Harmony Of Loula Yorke’s Volta

In the new album of electronic music by Loula Yorke, Laura Cannell hears synth lines extending like roots across the forest floor

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Only Becoming: Ulyap Songs Re-Imagined By Minami Deutsch, Zongamin & More

The latest mix of archival and re-interpreted musics from the Flee Project, Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition, captures the music of the Northern Caucasus without isolating it from the convivial atmosphere it stems from

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The Extreme South: Último Sosiego By Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal

An album of improvised music for trumpet and double bass draws on the emotional resonances of Chile’s southern tip

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Songs From Under The Floorboards: Inner Winter By Gentle Stranger

With distant sleigh bells and creaking field recordings, Gentle Stranger bring a seasonal mood to a suite of stark, intimate songs, finds Patrick Clarke

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Memories Of Sound: Esz Kodesz By Cut The Sky

Now based in Kraków, the new trio from MultiTraction Orchestra’s Alex Roth, with clarinettist Wacław Zimpel and drummer Hubert Zemler, proves a heady blast of electronics, field recording and wild collective improvisation summoning a rich seam of emotion and solidarity

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Inside Monster Mansion: Valosaasteen Sekaan By Musta Huone

The Finnish quartet fuse post-punk, cosmic music, and black metal into a heady brew that just gets weirder and weirder, deeper and deeper, darker and darker, finds Enrico Monacelli

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Fresh Starts & Happy Endings: Quaranta By Danny Brown

Lockdown (and rehab) allow Detroit’s finest living storyteller to deliver his most personal album to date, finds Arusa Qureshi

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The Past In The Present: Look Over The Wall, See The Sky By John Francis Flynn

The Dublin singer makes a radical and unsettling addition to the living tradition of Irish folk song, finds Tom Bolton

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Devil In The Detail: A Time To Love, A Time To Die By Amor Muere

An album of strings, songs and electronics by a quartet of Mexican women pulls you in with the sweetness of its arrangements before leading you into darker waters, finds Amanda Farah

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Things That Go Bump: Gazelle Twin’s Black Dog

Childhood nightmares and uncanny reminders seep into the flux of Elizabeth Bernholz's latest, an album of disarming vocal force, finds Lottie Brazier

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Would You Be Free From The Burden Of Sin? Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s SAVED!

The artist formerly known as Lingua Ignota leaves it all behind with this searing missive from the other world, finds Enrico Monacelli

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Splendid In Ashes: Before We Lie Down in Darknesse By The Inward Circles

For his new album as The Inward Circles, Richard Skelton keeps it low, slow, and deep, deep down – Will Ainsley plots its composition

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Floating In Space: Teeth Of The Sea Take Off With New Album Hive

Whether they're soundtracking the moon shot or whipping out pop bangers, their latest album finds Teeth of the Sea's ambitions expaning in all directions, finds Jared Dix

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Spin That Wheel: BOWN By Mariam Rezaei Is Our Album Of The Week

Newcastle's Mariam Rezaei is at the crest of a thrilling new wave of experimental turntablism, finds Antonio Poscic

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Hot Flob Time Machine: Prisoners of Love And Hate By Apostille

The third album by Night School Records boss Michael Kasparis evokes the halcyon electronics of Soft Cell, N-Trance … and Whigfield?

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Deep Cuts: Viral Wreckage By Aunty Rayzor

The Nigerian rap artist shines over transcontinental club sounds on her wild and expressive debut for Hakuna Kulala, finds Skye Butchard

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Grand Slam: Protect Your Light By Irreversible Entanglements

Now signed to Impulse, the free jazz quintet release their most open and expansive record yet without once diminishing their fire, finds Peter Margasak

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Rites & Wrong ‘Uns: In Blood By Hey Colossus

The English post-rock sextet explore the eldritch mysteries of the landscape on a record as bleak and sinister as all hell, finds Oliver Cookson

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Everything, Everywhere: Perfect Saviors By The Armed

The Detroit collective’s approach to widescreen rock proves as singular and explosive as everything else they do, finds Jared Dix

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Knight On Earth: Blind At The Age Of Four By Gaunt

Jack Warne’s full-length debut as GAUNT is noisy – soaked in crackle and hiss, reverb and a chunky roomsound – but deeply comforting all the same, finds Bernie Brooks

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Dear Diary: Tomu DJ’s Crazy Trip

A fog lifts on the new record by this expressive and emotional electronic producer, finds Skye Butchard

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Night Fever: Iceboy Violet’s Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion

The febrile new album from Manchester's Iceboy Violet offers a portal into a whole scene, for Eden Tizard

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The Universe Is Wrong: Love In Constant Spectacle By Jane Weaver

Dancer In The Dark: Pattern Damage By Bianca Scout

Written On Skin: Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves

Building Back Better: New Monuments By Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

Staying With The Trouble: The Collective by Kim Gordon

Deeper And Deeper: Ministry of Tall Tales By Sote

To Hear Hearing: Spectral Evolution By Rafael Toral Is Our Album Of The Week

Beach Boy: Springs Eternal By William Doyle

Parklife! Chapultepec By NAAFI Founder Lao Is Our Album Of The Week

One Foot In The Grave: Celestial Devastation By Cower

Whirling In Space: The Cosmic Harmony Of Loula Yorke’s Volta

Only Becoming: Ulyap Songs Re-Imagined By Minami Deutsch, Zongamin & More

The Extreme South: Último Sosiego By Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal

Songs From Under The Floorboards: Inner Winter By Gentle Stranger

Memories Of Sound: Esz Kodesz By Cut The Sky

Inside Monster Mansion: Valosaasteen Sekaan By Musta Huone

Fresh Starts & Happy Endings: Quaranta By Danny Brown

The Past In The Present: Look Over The Wall, See The Sky By John Francis Flynn

Devil In The Detail: A Time To Love, A Time To Die By Amor Muere

Things That Go Bump: Gazelle Twin’s Black Dog

Would You Be Free From The Burden Of Sin? Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s SAVED!

Splendid In Ashes: Before We Lie Down in Darknesse By The Inward Circles

Floating In Space: Teeth Of The Sea Take Off With New Album Hive

Spin That Wheel: BOWN By Mariam Rezaei Is Our Album Of The Week

Hot Flob Time Machine: Prisoners of Love And Hate By Apostille

Deep Cuts: Viral Wreckage By Aunty Rayzor

Grand Slam: Protect Your Light By Irreversible Entanglements

Rites & Wrong ‘Uns: In Blood By Hey Colossus

Everything, Everywhere: Perfect Saviors By The Armed

Knight On Earth: Blind At The Age Of Four By Gaunt

Dear Diary: Tomu DJ’s Crazy Trip

Night Fever: Iceboy Violet’s Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion

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