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Ryoji Ikeda
Ultratronics

Drawing on audio material recorded between 1989 and 1999 and compositions created between 2013 and 2022, the Japanese visual and sonic artist's latest for NOTON offers a fascinating overview of his practice, finds Daniel Hignell

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Haythem Mahbouli
Last Man On Earth

Tunisian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer paints a rich and seductive picture of the end of the world

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Stormzy
This Is What I Mean

The Croydon-born MC takes a step away from his grime roots with latest album, This Is What I Mean

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kIRk

Polish group kIRk delve into softer textures and gauzier sensations, still as forceful as ever, finds Vanessa Agu

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Mehmet Aslan
The Sun Is Parallel

A thrilling debut from the Swiss-Turkish musician, finds Jeremy Allen

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Andrew Wasylyk
Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls

The Scottish composer creates landscapes to get lost in, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Blacklisters
Leisure Centre

Leeds boys don't sound very happy

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anrimeal
Skin Deep

Porto's Ana Rita de Melo Alves offers up an audio diary as intimate as it is experimental

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Rabit
What Dreams May Come

The Halcyon Veil founder contructs shimmering, pellucid orchestrationsthen slowly pulls them apart

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Röyksopp
Profound Mysteries III

The Norwegian duo excel when sticking to what they know best, finds Hannaz Pezzack

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Nichunimu
Un Cacho de Metal, Un Resto de Vaivén

A suite of electro-jazz freakouts from Chile puts Daryl Worthington in a spin

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Christine And The Queens
Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles

A new direction from Christine And The Queens feels tentative, but far from joyless, finds Matthew Horton

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Jeff Parker
Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy

A selection of live cuts find the Tortoise guitarist and AACM member in warm spirits, finds Antonio Poscic

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Eliza Carthy And The Restitution
Queen Of The Whirl

Heir apparent to a great English folk dynasty reclaims her extensive back catalogue

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Shake Chain
Snake Chain

London quartet throw a series of musical curveballs

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Plaid
Feorm Falorx

What's that warm glow of retrofuturistic nostalgia oozing through the speakers? Ah, yes, a new Plaid album

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Thorn Valley
Various

A compilation from Bethnal Green's World of Echo record shop features tracks by Moin, Exek, Still House Plants and more

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Darren Hayman
You Will Not Die

The former Hefner frontman follows a set of Oulipian constraints to produce a set of typically affecting meditations of love, life and mortality, finds Aug Stone

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Fenella
The Metallic Index

Jane Weavers experimental ensemble plays hauting paeans to the electric girl of the 1920s

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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

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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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Ryoji Ikeda
Ultratronics

Haythem Mahbouli
Last Man On Earth

Stormzy
This Is What I Mean

Mehmet Aslan
The Sun Is Parallel

Andrew Wasylyk
Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls

Blacklisters
Leisure Centre

anrimeal
Skin Deep

Rabit
What Dreams May Come

Röyksopp
Profound Mysteries III

Nichunimu
Un Cacho de Metal, Un Resto de Vaivén

Christine And The Queens
Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles

Jeff Parker
Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy

Eliza Carthy And The Restitution
Queen Of The Whirl

Shake Chain
Snake Chain

Plaid
Feorm Falorx

Thorn Valley
Various

Darren Hayman
You Will Not Die

Fenella
The Metallic Index

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

These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

Water Damage
Instruments

The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

Old Man Diode & Rick Holland
The King Krill