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Roxy Music
Roxy Music

The legendary group’s dizzying and arresting debut has been reissued with a slew of unreleased demos, outtakes and live material

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Xylouris White
Mother

George Xylouris and Jim White offer brilliant detonations and sombre elegance in frustratingly unequal measure

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Field Music
Open Here

Field Music offer immense charm and ideological strength once again on their 7th LP

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Kaukolampi
1

On his debut solo album, Timo Kaukolampi goes deep down and far out.

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Total Control
Laughing At The System

A wonderful album of rage, laughter, hysteria, all kinds of eclectic noise.

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Cucina Povera
Hilja

An irresistible trip into minimalism and silence

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Sean Noonan
Man No Longer Me

Intense, daft, tricksy, virtuoso, addictive: an absolute trip from a “modern-day sonic griot”

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Dommengang
Love Jail

The rocknroll chuggers move west to LA and find sunshine, warm breezes

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Cindy Wilson
Change

Solo for the first time, the B-52’s co-founder experiments, collaborates and comes up good

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Slow Place Like Home
When I See You… Ice Cream!

From Northern Ireland, a singular mind creates a singular electronic album - a rich and idiosyncratic gem

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Jim Ghedi
A Hymn For Ancient Land

Heartfelt 12-string guitar composition from the Sheffield trad folk player, who sometimes goes a bit too far with the bucolic bliss

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Soho Rezanejad
Six Archetypes

A powerful lysergic pop debut from the Danish solo artist

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Porches
The House

The move from indie rock to synth pop is complete, and this is Porches’ best record yet

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Dubi Dolczek
Dubi in Space Part 1: The Emerald Gauntlet

This cosmic crooning is a trip - we’d like it to go further

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NSRD
The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

From 1980s Latvia, a wonky, lovely agitpop gem

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Shame
Songs Of Praise

Boys in the band, but (hopefully) not those kind of boys in the band. By Cady Siregar.

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Lindstrøm
It's Alright Between Us As It Is

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm's fifth studio album is diverse in terms of style, form, quality, and execution, but what awaits at its close is delightful. By Ravi Ghosh

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Wu-Tang Clan
The Saga Continues

A lacklustre record that's Wu-Tang by numbers, but thankfully not as incohesive as their last outing. By Alice Kemp-Habib

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Elodie
Vieux Silence

A travelogue into an oneiric realm, one of quiet contemplation and otherworldly atmospheres

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Off World

Off World imagine the musical euivalent of a Dali-esque landscape on this genuinely explorative record

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Ben Frost
The Centre Cannot Hold

A depressive ode to the current state of the world we live in, Frost gives no easy answers on The Centre Cannot Hold, nor refuses to bludgeon us with irreversible abrasion

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Baths
Romaplasm

Will Wiesenfeld finds himself more contemplative than reflective, with some of the loveliest excursions Baths have taken to date. By Matthew Neale

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Brockhampton
Saturation III

The eccentric third album from hip hop 'boyband' Brockhampton deserves a member-by-member analysis...

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Richard Skelton
Towards A Frontier

From the landscapes of east Iceland, Richard Skelton's multidisciplinary response to shifting seasons, global frailty and environmental destruction.

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Golden Teacher
No Luscious Life

A warm and subversive album for ravers, poets and babies.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti
Time To Tell

Cosey's recently reissued treatise on her time stripping and working in the sex industry appraised from the POV of a sex worker in 2017

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Robert Sotelo
Cusp

The debut for ex-Joya man Andrew Doig under his new pseudonym - an album of gentle time travel into a slightly crooked other reality.

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Normil Hawaiians
More Wealth Than Money

A killer slice of freeform raging post-punk, rescued and reissued by Upset The Rhythm.

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Renu
They Dance In The Dark

Composer, producer and percussionist Renu Hossain produces her richest work yet, a gift from a citizen of everywhere to “all the witches, weirdos, queers, femmes and nerds of this cosmos”.

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Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
A Pocket Of Wind Resistance

The soundtrack from a lauded theatre production, a multilayered portrait of life on (and flying above) a Midlothian peat bog. By Tom Bolton

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Hyetal
Youth + Power

Bristol producer David Corney’s third album as Hyetal, with more bass, extra melody and added vocals. By Ammar Kalia

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Nadah el Shazly
Ahwar

A perfect, soaring amalgamation of traditional Egyptian song with experimental takes on performance and instrumentation.

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Roxy Music
Roxy Music

Xylouris White
Mother

Field Music
Open Here

Kaukolampi
1

Total Control
Laughing At The System

Cucina Povera
Hilja

Sean Noonan
Man No Longer Me

Dommengang
Love Jail

Cindy Wilson
Change

Slow Place Like Home
When I See You… Ice Cream!

Jim Ghedi
A Hymn For Ancient Land

Soho Rezanejad
Six Archetypes

Porches
The House

Dubi Dolczek
Dubi in Space Part 1: The Emerald Gauntlet

NSRD
The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

Shame
Songs Of Praise

Lindstrøm
It's Alright Between Us As It Is

Wu-Tang Clan
The Saga Continues

Elodie
Vieux Silence

Ben Frost
The Centre Cannot Hold

Baths
Romaplasm

Brockhampton
Saturation III

Richard Skelton
Towards A Frontier

Golden Teacher
No Luscious Life

Cosey Fanni Tutti
Time To Tell

Robert Sotelo
Cusp

Normil Hawaiians
More Wealth Than Money

Renu
They Dance In The Dark

Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
A Pocket Of Wind Resistance

Hyetal
Youth + Power

Nadah el Shazly
Ahwar