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Uncommon Pleasures: New Horse Lords Reviewed

The Common Task, the latest album by Baltimore four-piece Horse Lords is a full-on work out for the attention

I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Formed around a core originally recorded in 2014 at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars channels the voice of the late Fall frontman on Molocular Meditation, with uncanny results, finds Adam Lehrer

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Energy Flash: Pulled By Magnets’ Rose Golden Doorways

After the break-up of Polar Bear, Seb Rochford did some searching. Hypnotic, turbulent, otherwordly, the new Pulled By Magnets gives us a glimpse into what he found

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Comrades In Arms: Sightless Pit’s Grave Of A Dog

A collaboration between Kistin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell), Sightless Pit's debut Grave of a Dog finds a raw equilibrium amongst its different voices

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Branches Bloody Branches: Quadra By Sepultura

Thirty-five years after their debut, Sepultura's latest album shoots for the moon – and misses, finds Tom Coles

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Nimble Rhythms: Beatrice Dillon’s Workaround

Beatrice Dillon weaves disparate threads into a masterwork with her debut LP Workaround, says Kristen Gallerneaux

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Kitchen Sink Dramatist: Have We Met By Destroyer

On his new album, Have We Met, Destroyer's Dan Bejar reveals himself as not just a fine songwriter, but one of the age's great musical dramatists, finds Zara Hedderman

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One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Hotspot, the new album by the Pet Shop Boys, still clings to the utopian promise of the dancefloor, but the battleground has shifted, finds Canada Choate

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Mountains Collapsed Into Streams: Debris By Keeley Forsyth

The debut by Keeley Forsyth makes for a startling and boldly honest record, finds Lara C. Cory

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Rival Dreamer: Burial’s Tunes, 2011 to 2019

Beneath the crackle and hiss, Adam Lehrer finds a portal to a better future in a new compilation of Burial's 12"s and EPs

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Ritual Union: Whistling Arrow Feat. Laura Cannell & Charles Hayward

The debut album by Whistling Arrow, a veritable supergroup featuring Charles Hayward, Laura Cannell and members of Ex-Easter Island Head, is a gloriously inauthentic take on folklore, finds Lara C. Cory

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Sketches In Eternity: Leonard Cohen’s Thanks For The Dance

*Thanks for the Dance*, Leonard Cohen's posthumous album, sways between melancholy and tenderness, finds Esme Bennett

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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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Uncommon Pleasures: New Horse Lords Reviewed

I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Energy Flash: Pulled By Magnets’ Rose Golden Doorways

Comrades In Arms: Sightless Pit’s Grave Of A Dog

Branches Bloody Branches: Quadra By Sepultura

Nimble Rhythms: Beatrice Dillon’s Workaround

Kitchen Sink Dramatist: Have We Met By Destroyer

One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Mountains Collapsed Into Streams: Debris By Keeley Forsyth

Rival Dreamer: Burial’s Tunes, 2011 to 2019

Ritual Union: Whistling Arrow Feat. Laura Cannell & Charles Hayward

Sketches In Eternity: Leonard Cohen’s Thanks For The Dance

Weed & Beats: Giant Swan’s Debut Album Reviewed

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

Pants On Fire: Fibs By Anna Meredith

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

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

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