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Ebe Oke
SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Ebe Oke centres the non-human other on a strange and compelling debut, says Bernie Brooks

Dry Cleaning
Stumpwork

South London quartet follow up their critically acclaimed *New Long Leg* with a more sombre record shot through with stony-faced rage

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Big Joanie
Back Home

Big Joanie go widescreen with ravenous joy on second album Back Home, exploring their studio muscle to the fullest

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Soft Crash
Your Last Everything

Debut collaboration from two heroes of the Italo body music scene, Phase Fatale and Pablo Bozzi

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Horse Lords
Comradely Objects

The Baltimore quartet fuse bluegrass, house, post-punk and free jazz in wild new combinations, finds Noel Gardner

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Moin
Paste

Post-rock, live dub and some increasingly threatening spoken word – it's all in the mix with the latest from Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti, finds Noel Gardner

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Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Landvættirnar fjórar

Microtonal music for sextet that sounds like the weather

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Sea Moss
SEAMOSS2

Portland duo make an unruly racket sound like a whole heap of fun, finds Jon Buckland

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Jean-Michel Jarre
Oxymore

The French synthesizer wizard pays tribute to his former mentor at the GRM, Pierre Henry

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Cakes Da Killa
Svengali

The New Yorker's second album finds him in a more romantic mood, still heaps of fun, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann
An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann come together like peanut butter and jelly for a nightmare soul revue, says Bernie Brooks

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Angeline Morrison
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

The Cornish singer reintegrates tales of Black British experience into the English folk tradition

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Arctic Monkeys
The Car

The latest from Alex Turner & co. finds the group stepping out in grand style with results amongst their very best, finds Fergal Kinney

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Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Another win for the resurgent cutup composer, this time mining a Finnish jazz label's back catalog for source material

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Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

There's more to Winter's latest than early 90s nostalgia, finds Aug Stone

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The Umlauts
Another Fact

South London band's debut looks to the future – albeit a future caked in a hefty patina of dirt and grit, finds Shrey Kathuria

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Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Swedish prog revivalists explore the adventurous side of sobriety

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Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Eno sings – and finally lays to rest any suggestions that the ambient godfather is 'not a musician', finds Jeremy Allen

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L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Folkish whimsy meets hip hop flow on the new album by London's L.A. Salami

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Sonic shock and awe, auditory rapid domination, and roiling low frequencies with the fluid power of a ballista, Shit and Shine’s *New Confusion* is a mangled collection of heavy magic and strange genre digressions clotted with sheer brilliance. Will Ainsley explains why

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Ebe Oke SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Dry Cleaning Stumpwork

Big Joanie Back Home

Soft Crash Your Last Everything

Horse Lords Comradely Objects

Moin Paste

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson Landvættirnar fjórar

Sea Moss SEAMOSS2

Jean-Michel Jarre Oxymore

Cakes Da Killa Svengali

Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Angeline Morrison The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

Arctic Monkeys The Car

Carl Stone We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Winter What Kind Of Blue Are You?

The Umlauts Another Fact

Dungen En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Brian Eno FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

L.A. Salami Ottoline

Shit and Shine New Confusion

Loraine James Building Something Beautiful For Me

William Doyle Slowly Arranged

80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.2 Various Artists

City Of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters

Sun Ra Arkestra Living Sky

Use Knife The Shedding of Skin

A Shroom Of One’s Own: Björk’s Fossora Reviewed

The Real Tuesday Weld Dreams

Dominic Voz Right to the City

Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker Songs For Sad Poets

Magma Kãrtëhl

The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

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Ebe Oke
SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Dry Cleaning
Stumpwork

Big Joanie
Back Home

Soft Crash
Your Last Everything

Horse Lords
Comradely Objects

Moin
Paste

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Landvættirnar fjórar

Sea Moss
SEAMOSS2

Jean-Michel Jarre
Oxymore

Cakes Da Killa
Svengali

Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann
An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Angeline Morrison
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

Arctic Monkeys
The Car

Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

The Umlauts
Another Fact

Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Shit and Shine
New Confusion

Loraine James
Building Something Beautiful For Me

William Doyle
Slowly Arranged

80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.2
Various Artists

City Of Caterpillar
Mystic Sisters

Sun Ra Arkestra
Living Sky

Use Knife
The Shedding of Skin

The Real Tuesday Weld
Dreams

Dominic Voz
Right to the City

Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker
Songs For Sad Poets

Magma
Kãrtëhl

The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam