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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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EP Of The Week: Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

John Doran welcomes the complex emotional register and melodicism of Richard D. James' latest EP for Warp

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Mighty Aphrodite: Love’s Holiday By Oxbow

The Californian art-rockers' most tender album still packs plenty of punch, finds JR Moores

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Breaking The Raves: Absurd Matter By Shapednoise

After experiencing sudden hearing loss, Shapednoise explores the terror, anxiety, power and jubilation of noise. It’s his most complete offering yet, says Skye Butchard

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Unrecognisable To Myself: I Inside the Old Year Dying By PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey’s tenth album marks a heroic continuation of form – and an intimate, internal refrain. Will Ainsley tracks this elusive album through the drisk

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Contact Buzz: Full-On By Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void

Loops and drones leave you reeling in a suite of tracks whose brevity is no barrier to their psychedelic effects, finds Jon Buckland

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Crisis Mode: Mesmerizer By Selvhenter

On Selvhenter's latest, the group moves like an off-kilter communal organism connected by energy, flowing freely from one idea to the next, says Bernie Brooks

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Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

The final album from the late Philip Jeck is a touching collaboration with master field recordist Chris Watson, focused on a level crossing near Hull

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Bigger Than Jesus: The God Phone By Lunch Money Life

Restlessly inventive, playful and absurdist, the London quintet’s expansive latest is the imaginary soundtrack to a biblical sci-fi epic you never knew you needed in your life, finds Cal Cashin

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Against Nature: The Shell That Speaks The Sea By David Toop & Lawrence English

The Room40 label boss and Ocean of Sound author explore the darker flip-side of your iPhone’s mindfulness app, finds Daryl Worthington

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Cool Memories: Jam City Presents EFM

After a brief pastoral interlude, Jack Lathan returns to the urban nightscape with an album of wall-to-wall bangers, finds Alex Niven

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No Laughing Matter: Temps’ Party Gator Purgatory

Comedian James Acaster’s new hip-hop project drafts 40 performers into a highly inventive, maximalist debut album. Listeners who drop their guard will be richly rewarded, finds Alastair Shuttleworth

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From Caustic To Cuddly: Memorials’ Music For Film

Comprised of two very different soundtracks, one earthy and the other extra-terrestrial, Electrelane’s Verity Susman and Wire’s Matthew Simms debut as Memorials is a show of remarkable daring and versatility

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The Angel Of History: Shackleton Becomes The Purge of Tomorrow

Under new moniker, The Purge of Tomorrow, Shackleton's new album The Other Side of Devastation offers up a dubby disintegration loop through time, finds Daryl Worthington

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Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

Latest album Recovery Position sees the Oslo-Brighton duo reborn, sounding like a whole new band, finds Bernie Brooks

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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

EP Of The Week: Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

Mighty Aphrodite: Love’s Holiday By Oxbow

Breaking The Raves: Absurd Matter By Shapednoise

Unrecognisable To Myself: I Inside the Old Year Dying By PJ Harvey

Contact Buzz: Full-On By Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void

Crisis Mode: Mesmerizer By Selvhenter

Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

Bigger Than Jesus: The God Phone By Lunch Money Life

Against Nature: The Shell That Speaks The Sea By David Toop & Lawrence English

Cool Memories: Jam City Presents EFM

No Laughing Matter: Temps’ Party Gator Purgatory

From Caustic To Cuddly: Memorials’ Music For Film

The Angel Of History: Shackleton Becomes The Purge of Tomorrow

Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

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