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Smerz
Big City Life

Norwegian anti-pop duo send voice notes from the abyss of the contemporary mediascape

Ammar 808
Club Tounsi

From Tunisia via Denmark, Sofyann Ben Youssef matches Arabic scales and Sufi hymns to vintage drum machines and club-ready production styles

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Daniel O’Sullivan
Eros

Backed by a 14-piece classical ensemble, the Grumbling Fur member's latest is both rather whimsical and rather beautiful, finds Ed Power

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These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

On their fifth album, the brothers Barnett tap into a peculiarly English unusual, channeling their unique romanticism towards new forms of intensity

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Water Damage
Instruments

Austin-based motorik supergroup (feat. David Grubbs, Patrick Shiroishi and Thor Harris) ascend to the astral plane

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Karman Line Collective
To Be

Wolfgang Buttress and friends follow the bees’ lead on an album full of apian tooting, quacking and purring

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The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

The smell of Benson & Hedges ashtrays pervades these early concert recordings, personally selected by the dream team of Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon

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Goddess
Goddess

Savages' Fay Milton delivers a hymn to 'feminine energy', with guest spots from Salvia, Isabel Muñoz-Newsome, Delilah Holliday and others

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I’m Being Good
Shapeshitter

Nine albums and the best part of four decades in, the Brighton noiseniks continue to confound and appal in equal measure with a record of brutish riffs and sudden explosions

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Ash Fure
Animal

Award-winning composer strikes at the palpable physical presence of sound

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Cole Pulice
Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver's sax player goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

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Billy Woods
Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

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Quinquis
eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

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Moin
Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

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Red Mar
Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

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Andy Bell
Ten Crowns

Erasure singer heads to Nashville, belts out a suite of ten big pop anthems seasoned with a healthy dash of club music, gospel and Debbie Harry

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Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we

Two decades since their last album, the Welsh post-hardcore group return with jagged riffs and irreverent song titles still firmly in place, finds Oliver Cookson

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Das Kinn
Ruinenkampf

Frankfurt's former geriatric nurse imagines The Stranglers discovering EBM on experimental Hamburg label Bureau B

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Staraya Derevnya
Garden window escape

Psychedelic septet tread the line between motorik groove and full-blown freak-out, finds Rosie Solomon

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elijah jamal asani
,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

Beautiful, sparse lowercase music recorded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

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Deerhoof
Noble And Godlike In Ruin

On their nineteenth album, the San Francisco quartet show no signs of letting up their brutal assault on pop music conventions

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The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
Plays music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, Gerard Lebik, Luigi Russolo, John Hegre

Recreating the bizarre instrumentarium of Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, Luciano Chessa and his orchestra play new music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, and others

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Hieroglyphic Being
Dance Music 4 Bad People

Jamal Moss reclaims club music for the cause of collective ecstasy and speculative weirdness

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Lucy Railton
Blue Veil

For her first album playing cello alone without electronics, the Berlin-based composer-performer pushes the instrument's overtones to a fever pitch, finds Levi Dayan

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Gryphon Rue
I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water

Gryphon Rue’s new LP creaks and grumbles and hums with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical, says Bernie Brooks

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Maria Somerville
Luster

Moving back to Ireland's Atlantic coast and signing to 4AD, Maria Somerville makes dreamy shoegazing pop with a little help from Lankum's Ian Lynch and Margie Jean Lewis

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Emma-Jean Thackray
Weirdo

The genre-busting iconoclast makes a fearless leap forward on her life-saving second album

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Sumac & Moor Mother
The Film

The Philadelphian poet-musician-activist joins up with the North American power trio for a full-on free metal apocalypse

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Anika
Abyss

Sanding off the sharp electronic edges in favour of a more raw, live, analogue sound, Anika may have just produced the cyberpunk Let England Shake, finds Hayley Scott

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DUCKWRTH
All American Fuckboy

Even the presence of actor LaKeith Stanfield fails to lift this narrative of lust and redemption to the epic proportions of its own ambitions, finds Eden Tizard

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Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music

Recorded at the Ras Hotel ballroom in Addis Ababa in 1976, Stereo Instrumental Music presents a unique document of the vibrant Ethiopian music scene of the 1970s

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Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne
Hand To Mouth

Experimental and minimalist music where chilly first impressions prove to be deceptive

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elijah jamal asani ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

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Smerz
Big City Life

Ammar 808
Club Tounsi

Daniel O’Sullivan
Eros

These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

Water Damage
Instruments

Karman Line Collective
To Be

The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

Goddess
Goddess

I’m Being Good
Shapeshitter

Ash Fure
Animal

Cole Pulice
Land’s End Eternal

Billy Woods
Golliwog

Quinquis
eor

Moin
Belly Up

Red Mar
Our Low Cell

Andy Bell
Ten Crowns

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we

Das Kinn
Ruinenkampf

Staraya Derevnya
Garden window escape

elijah jamal asani
,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

Deerhoof
Noble And Godlike In Ruin

The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
Plays music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, Gerard Lebik, Luigi Russolo, John Hegre

Hieroglyphic Being
Dance Music 4 Bad People

Lucy Railton
Blue Veil

Gryphon Rue
I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water

Maria Somerville
Luster

Emma-Jean Thackray
Weirdo

Sumac & Moor Mother
The Film

Anika
Abyss

DUCKWRTH
All American Fuckboy

Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music

Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne
Hand To Mouth

Richard Skelton
The Second Chamber

HTRK
Psychic 9–5 Club

Félicia Atkinson
Space As An Instrument

Cosmic Analog Ensemble
Expo Botanica