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Knife Girl
CUM

A bold step forward for Knife Girl. An obvious take on queer club music, writes Skye Butchard

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Sense Fracture
Landscape of Thorns

From Haunter Records, an album that tries to imagine what industrial music might mean in the 21st century

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Ragana
Desolation’s Flower

Furious drums, squalls of guitar, and guttural vocals deliver a language of pain on the duo's first record for Flenser Records

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Sampler1
Various Artists

An album of music by visual artists, from Rosa Barba to Cory Arcangel

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Lenhart Tapes
Dens

Balkan folk meets tape manipulation on this second album from Vladmir Lenhart and co

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Kwes
Rye Lane OST

Artist, producer and composer Kwes presents the release of the original score for the romantic comedy film Rye Lane that released in cinemas in January 2023

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Jockstrap
I

Coby Sey and others feature on remixed and re-worked tracks from the Mercury nominated-I Love You Jennifer B

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MXLX
SAINT

Matt Loveridge’s 63rds album proves a slow burn but a surefire riff monster for Nick Roseblade

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Bas Jan
Back to the Swamp

Serafina Steer and co sing of pet shops and road signs on their best album yet, finds Tom Bolton

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Bonnacons of Doom
Signs

Alternative music prodigy Bonnacons of Doom are back with a forward-thinking sophomore project

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Animal Hospital
Shelf Life

One of post-rock's most exploratory guitarists sets out to make a straight-up rock record with luminous results, finds Brian Coney

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Matmos
Return to Archive

A plunderphonic trawl through the Smithsonian Folkways archives with Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt proves a disquieting experience for Skye Butchard

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Better Corners
Continuous Miracles, Vol.2

Lockdown project featuring members of Tomaga, Talk Normal and It Hugs Back prove a compellingly psychedelic listen for Jakub Knera

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You Are Wolf
hare // hunter // moth // ghost

With a mixture of original songs and unique takes on traditional tunes, collaborators including Stick in the Wheel and Robert MacFarlane, Kerry Andrew has made a folk record like no other, finds Tom Bolton

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Maria BC
Spike Field

A record named after a universal warning sign turns out to be surprisingly welcoming, for Lottie Brazier

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Gold Dime
No More Blue Skies

The third album from NY art punks Gold Dime sees the band achieve an enviable feat: staying true to a distinct, established sound while pushing outward and expanding their sonic palette

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Pidgins
Refrains of the Day, Volume 1

Mexico City residents Aaron With and Milo Tamez hack boardroom vernaculars to disquieting ends, finds Daryl Worthington

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Shabazz Palaces
Robed In Rareness

With a host of new collaborators, Shabazz Palaces’s sound is pushed and pulled in multiple directions at once, without once neglecting the interplanetary funk mutant hip hop sound they have always excelled in, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Forest Swords
Bolted

Six years after last album, Compassion, the Wirral’s own Matthew Barnes takes a turn to the dark side, finds Liam Inscoe-Jones

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Get Off Of My Loud: The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds Reviewed

This is what happens when you employ the fan of a certain terrible group to produce your new album, says JR Moores; although he also has a theory for who's really responsible…

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Lost Girls
Selvutsletter

With their second LP as Lost Girls, Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden somehow distill the magic of their long-form excursions into indelible, avant-pop nuggets, says Bernie Brooks

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Popular Music
Minor Works

New band from ex-Parenthetical Girls frontman build worlds in a wonderfully detailed collection of songs, finds Zara Hedderman

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Sam Wilkes
DRIVING

LA experimental jazz musician turns on the cruise control for a laidback ride into singer-songwriter land

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Årabrot
Of Darkness And Light

Årabrot’s tenth LP is the aural equivalent of biting into a big chocolate skull full of strawberry goo, says Bernie Brooks

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Emptyset
Ash

Brutalism has never sounded so bright, finds Jon Buckland

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L’Rain
I Killed Your Dog

Another fascinating album from L'Rain in which indie rock, dream pop and neo-soul conspire to produce one compelling sound, finds Siobhan Kane

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Mendoza Hoff Revels
Echolocation

The incendiary debut album from guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Devin Hoff (with James Brandon Lewis on tenor sax and Ches Smith on drums) evokes a fusion of Sonny Sharrock and Sonic Youth, or Black Flag and Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, finds Sean Kitching

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Hyperdawn
Steady

Manchester duo forge new pop from the ruins of the old

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Goat
Medicine

Swedish rockers get deeper into psychedelia, darker than ever before, finds Enrico Monacelli

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Shuta Hasunuma
unpeople

Unpeople leaps in every direction at once, only sometimes landing squarely on its feet, finds Daniel Hignell

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Aho Ssan
Rhizomes

Aho Ssan assembles a crack sqaud of international collaborators (from Moor Mother to Kassel Jaeger to Lafawndah to Valentina Magaletti) to create a mighty morphin vision of explosive electronic sounds

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Saucer Full Of Sour Milk: Roger Waters’ DSOTM Redux Reviewed

If there is one thing that ruins Roger Waters' rerecording of Dark Side Of The Moon – Roger Waters' Dark Side Of The Moon Redux – then it's Roger Waters, finds JR Moores

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Knife Girl
CUM

Sense Fracture
Landscape of Thorns

Ragana
Desolation’s Flower

Sampler1
Various Artists

Lenhart Tapes
Dens

Kwes
Rye Lane OST

Jockstrap
I

MXLX
SAINT

Bas Jan
Back to the Swamp

Bonnacons of Doom
Signs

Animal Hospital
Shelf Life

Matmos
Return to Archive

Better Corners
Continuous Miracles, Vol.2

You Are Wolf
hare // hunter // moth // ghost

Maria BC
Spike Field

Gold Dime
No More Blue Skies

Pidgins
Refrains of the Day, Volume 1

Shabazz Palaces
Robed In Rareness

Forest Swords
Bolted

Lost Girls
Selvutsletter

Popular Music
Minor Works

Sam Wilkes
DRIVING

Årabrot
Of Darkness And Light

Emptyset
Ash

L’Rain
I Killed Your Dog

Mendoza Hoff Revels
Echolocation

Hyperdawn
Steady

Goat
Medicine

Shuta Hasunuma
unpeople

Aho Ssan
Rhizomes