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Members of The Black Angels, Trentemøller, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Elephant Stone and The Earlies come together to make a joyful noise – just don't call them a 'psych supergroup', finds Kate French-Morris

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Golem Mecanique
Siamo Tutti In Percolo

Karen Jebane's mechanised hurdy-gurdy provides the doleful backdrop to this tribute the late Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Hawkwind
There Is No Space For Us

With their banks of synths and the addition of Thighpaulsandra, Jeremy Allen makes the case for the English space rock band's late period

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Pidgins
Refrains Of The Day, Volume 2

Mexico City’s Aaron With and Milo Tamez reverse Jon Hassell’s colonial gaze, creating a thrilling Fourth World music from below

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Arthur Russell
Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In And Out

A live recording of Arthur Russell playing cello and singing in 1985 offers a tantalising peak at the gestation of the classic World of Echo

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Lost Crowns
The Heart is in the Body

Six years in the making, Lost Crowns’ second album is a stunning feat of complex composition that takes their prog folk sound into bold new territory, finds Sean Kitching

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Lullahush
Ithaca

Traditional Irish music gets switched on, comes out sounding thrillingly new, finds Tom Bolton

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Real Lies
We Will Annihilate Our Enemies

The electronic duo go big on what may be their most accomplished album to date, finds Lina Adams

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Halvcirkel & Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Spirit

In this new collaboration between the Danish composer and string trio, Vanessa Ague hears a deep wellspring of joy bubbling beneath the richly textured surface

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Croation Amor & Lust For Youth
All Worlds

A surprisingly joyous club nugget from the smartly-dressed Danes

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Penelope Trappes
A Requiem

Anchored by smoke and dissonance, latest from the Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist sounds like seaweed drifting in a current to Amanda Farah

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The Ex
If Your Mirror Breaks

The ever-curious Dutch quartet’s latest album shows yet again that they manage to look at the world through a very singular lens, over and over.

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Benefits
Constant Noise

Like Underworld fronted by Simon Armitage, the Middlesbrough duo offer a trenchant call to arms, finds Hayley Scott

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Los Thuthanaka
Los Thuthanaka

Chuquimamani-Condori (fka Elysia Crampton) teams up with her brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton for an album of veering guitars and percussive minefields

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Destroyer
Dan’s Boogie

Dan Bejar finds humour in his own irascibility, still room for plenty of gravity and grit

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Bambara
Birthmarks

The Brooklyn-based trio prove a commercial-sounding rock LP can also be rich and strange

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Death Hilarious

Another hulking beast of chugged rhythms and swirling guitars from the porcine Tynesiders, this time with added El-P

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Backxwash
Only Dust Remains

The latest album finds the Zambian-Canadian rapper in reflective mode, bathed in warm synths and more melodic percussion to balance the darkness

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Sandwell District
End Beginnings

Fifteen years after their debut album, Karl O’Connor and David Sumner return to cruise the night time streets of techno city once more

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Playboi Carti
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The Atlanta rapper's third album is a sprawling mess with a few too many unnecessary and forgettable features, but buried somewhere in its capacious 77-minute runtime there's a fantastic album trying desperately to claw its way out, finds Christian Eede

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Use Knife
État Coupable

Dark folk, new beat and post-national sensibilities combine in a searing indictment of the violence of the state

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Eiko Ishibashi
Antigone

Following success scoring the films of Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, the Chiba-born composer-performer returns to the leftfield pop of her albums from the 2010s

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Sacred Paws
Jump Into Life

Glasgow post-punks Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers return after a five year hiatus, their exuberance undimmed

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Inturist
Tourism

With a broken tape recorder and a flea market mixer, the exiled artist summons ghosts of Cluster and the Clangers

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Driving Him Nuts: Squirrely Years Revisited Is Ministry’s Best Album In Decades

Al Jourgensen's latest is a startling proposition – re-recordings of material that he outright despises, with a raging squirrel phallus displayed on the cover. It's also, says JR Moores, the best material the band's put out for years

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More Eaze & Claire Rousay
No Floor

As the two friends and regular collaborators slide into Thrill Jockey's roster, Emo and Americana get stirred into the ambient stew to heartfelt and often dreamlike effect

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Heimat
Iti Eta No

French duo weave Byzantine dreamscapes out of complex rhythms and folkish surrealism

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Clipping
Dead Channel Sky

LA rappers look back to a classic 1984 novel for a dark vision of a cyberpunk future set to the big beats of 90s club music

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Rattle
Encircle

Percussion-heavy UK duo offer up a sinuous ritual born of sound, space, and a little bit of magick

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Boba Sopa
That Moment

GW Sok, formerly of The Ex, narrates a cautionary tale by Nicoleta Esinencu with dramaturg Jean Vangeebergen and musician Pavel Tchikov on modular synths

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Marina Zispin
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid zip up their ski jackets and fire up the 606 for an album of cold-sweating synths with hair-raising ambience

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Joni Void
Every Life Is A Light

Blurred layers of voice and synth evoke a place once seen but half-forgotten, for Luke Cartledge

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MIEN
MIIEN

Golem Mecanique
Siamo Tutti In Percolo

Hawkwind
There Is No Space For Us

Pidgins
Refrains Of The Day, Volume 2

Arthur Russell
Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In And Out

Lost Crowns
The Heart is in the Body

Lullahush
Ithaca

Real Lies
We Will Annihilate Our Enemies

Halvcirkel & Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Spirit

Croation Amor & Lust For Youth
All Worlds

Penelope Trappes
A Requiem

The Ex
If Your Mirror Breaks

Benefits
Constant Noise

Los Thuthanaka
Los Thuthanaka

Destroyer
Dan’s Boogie

Bambara
Birthmarks

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Death Hilarious

Backxwash
Only Dust Remains

Sandwell District
End Beginnings

Playboi Carti
MUSIC

Use Knife
État Coupable

Eiko Ishibashi
Antigone

Sacred Paws
Jump Into Life

Inturist
Tourism

More Eaze & Claire Rousay
No Floor

Heimat
Iti Eta No

Clipping
Dead Channel Sky

Rattle
Encircle

Boba Sopa
That Moment

Marina Zispin
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

Joni Void
Every Life Is A Light

Maruja
Pain to Power

Gwenifer Raymond
Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark