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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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How Do We Feel When We Feel Alive – Rose Elinor Dougall’s A New Illusion

A New Illusion, the third solo album by Rose Elinor Dougall, is a record teeming with life, verve, and great warmth

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More Fire! The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane become accelerating vectors , fast-forwarding jazz to new worlds on the new Comet is Coming album. But Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery could appeal just as well to clubbers, grime fans and football hooligans, finds Mike Vinti

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Movin’ On: Scott Walker & Sunn O)))’s Soused Reviewed

Dan Franklin takes an in-depth look at Scott Walker and Sunn O))) collaboration, Soused

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Bloomin’ Marvellous! These New Puritans’ Inside The Rose Reviewed

You might think that These New Puritans could never follow the magnificent Field Of Reeds... but think again, says Luke Turner, for new album Inside The Rose is just a different kind of wonderful

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The Echoes Of Anxiety: The Caretaker’s Final Chapter

With Everywhere at the end of time – Stage 6, The Caretaker brings to a close a twenty-year project with a double album of heartbreaking, elegiac music, finds Maybury

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Welcome To The Plastisphere – Celebrate Matmos’s Plastic Anniversary

Matmos's Plastic Anniversary – Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt's 25th, commercial plastic's 150th – is a triumphant paean to the new flesh, the sound of the earth becoming artificial

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Vulnerability Is Power – Little Simz’ Grey Area Reviewed

The prolific Little Simz is back with her best album to date, and one which ought to make the mainstream sit up and pay attention, says Anna Cafolla

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Ugly Songs For Ugly Times: Xiu Xiu’s Girl With Basket Of Fruit

Xiu Xiu return on the wonderful Upset The Rhythm label with another album of dissonant, angry songs about the current state of global awfulness

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This Ghostly Age: Teeth Of The Sea’s Wraith Reviewed

The mighty Teeth Of The Sea return with Wraith, their most sophisticated record yet, says Tom Bolton

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Party Politics: International Teachers Of Pop

Grim times breed great music, but not the kind that you might think. All those po-faced lads, sweating and grimacing their way through dreary derivative ‘political’ indie rock, are false prophets. If any band has a useful response to our current predicaments, it is these daft-as-fuck pop geniuses

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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

Fat White Family Hit Paydirt: Serfs Up! Reviewed

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

How Do We Feel When We Feel Alive – Rose Elinor Dougall’s A New Illusion

More Fire! The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Movin’ On: Scott Walker & Sunn O)))’s Soused Reviewed

Bloomin’ Marvellous! These New Puritans’ Inside The Rose Reviewed

The Echoes Of Anxiety: The Caretaker’s Final Chapter

Welcome To The Plastisphere – Celebrate Matmos’s Plastic Anniversary

Vulnerability Is Power – Little Simz’ Grey Area Reviewed

Ugly Songs For Ugly Times: Xiu Xiu’s Girl With Basket Of Fruit

This Ghostly Age: Teeth Of The Sea’s Wraith Reviewed

Party Politics: International Teachers Of Pop

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