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Deep Cabaret
Matchless

Bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy collide with guttural growls and serpentine grooves for a wild freak folk jamboree

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Nida, Block Dog & African Diplomat
Black Label EP

New hip hop from Abidjan combines righteous polemic with experimental production, finds Arusa Qureshi

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Ayumi Ishito (feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns)
Roboquarians, Vol. 2

Saxophonist Ayumi Ishito makes her horn sound like everything and anything – bar a saxophone, that is

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Myriad Myriads
All The Hits

Bye bye 2024, hello 2025. Bye bye Bass Clef, hello Myriad Myriads… Jon Buckland welcomes the artist's new identity with open arms

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Laura Cannell
A Year Of Lore

Coming to an end this month, Laura Cannell's latest serialised project is a monumental achievement sure to captivate the latent folklorist in all of us, says Bernie Brooks

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Cate Brooks
Prismatics

The glossy idealism of consumer electronics is given a sinister twist in the latest from the English electronic artist aka The Advisory Circle

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Alice Hebborn
Saisons

Low-key ecofeminist instrumentals provide a sophisticated and engrossing listen for Tom Bolton

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UKAEA
Anarcho-Animist Frontline Weapons

Material from January's Birds Catching Fire In The Sky gets revamped into something altogether more furious and more feral

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Alexander Schubert x NEKO3
Angel Death Traps

An album of static grain and abrasive chaos at the fraying interface of music and technology

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The Austrian guitarist-composer stays firmly within his comfort zone, but despite a deluge of contemporary processed guitar ambient albums, there's still nobody does it quite like him, finds Levi Dayan

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Kemper Norton
Tall Trees (And Other Tales)

A synaptic spring clean from Sussex’s very own synth mangler

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Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba
NOW!

Tennessee tenor sax player joins Polish bandleader for six cuts fusing composition and collective improvisation

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GbClifford
My Heart is Bigger Than the Grief Inside of It

Beneath the digital noise, a pop sensibility still peeks through on this first album under a new name for an award-winning Czech singer-songwriter

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Partial Defrag
ScanDisk

Snapshots of voices and digital debris conjuring up a journey through London's nocturnal streets

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sm^sher
pit of mine

The solo debut from Imogen Mason evokes the high deserts of Taos, New Mexico, finds Jude Iago James

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Kim Deal
Nobody Loves You More

Debut solo album from ex-Pixie suggests a total reinvention, finds Brian Coney

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Juanita Stein
The Weightless Hour

Former Howling Bells singer/guitarist returns with a radically different, stripped-back sound

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Merchants
Marrow

Alberto Ricca and Davide Amici find inspiration in the world of live RPGs

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Sly & The Family Drone
Moon Is Doom Backwards

The ghosts of sleepy rivers haunt a subtler, less overloaded Sly & The Family Drone, finds Jared Dix

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Lewis Spybey
LEWISPYBEY

Members of Wire and Zoviet France unite for a bumptious and oddly beautiful record

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McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson
Forces of Nature

A historic set from Tyner and Henderson with Jack DeJohnette and Henry Grimes proves irresistible to Peter Margasak

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Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan
Scraping the Divine

US grindcore quartet team up with Toronto-based noise punk for twelve tracks of existential dread

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Papa M
Ballads Of Harry Houdini

Having worked with Slint, Tortoise, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dave Pajo is still searching for new paths through the guitar

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Lorenzo Abattoir
Mess (Akt IV)

A study in breath work and amplification from the Italian sound artist

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Robin Carolan
Nosferatu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The score for Robert Eggers' creepy remake returns the horror score to the days when it still had the power to genuine frighten us, finds Charlie Brigden

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Cahill Costello
Cahill/Costello II

Glaswegian drum / guitar duo record that always keeps the listener on their toes

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Able Noise
High Tide

From the Hague, a disorienting, fragmented slice of art school rock that stretches time before slamming it in your face

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Dennis Bovell
Sufferer Sounds

The legendary producer digs through the archive of his Jah Sufferer Sound System days, digging up new dubs of tracks by Matumbi, Janet Kay, and others

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Warmduscher
Too Cold To Hold

London miscreants draft in the voices of Irvine Welsh, Lianne La Havas and Jeshi for expansive new self-produced record

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Sal Dulu
Nafuchsia In Fantasy

Irish beat-maker raises hell (with a little help from Fly Anakin)

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Toni Sauna
8EEFour

Ohio rapper teams up with producer eCUSSIONIST for seven tracks of forward-facing hip hop

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Michaela Turcerová
alene et

Saxophonist and composer explores the outer reaches of her instrument's palette

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Deep Cabaret
Matchless

Nida, Block Dog & African Diplomat
Black Label EP

Ayumi Ishito (feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns)
Roboquarians, Vol. 2

Myriad Myriads
All The Hits

Laura Cannell
A Year Of Lore

Cate Brooks
Prismatics

Alice Hebborn
Saisons

UKAEA
Anarcho-Animist Frontline Weapons

Alexander Schubert x NEKO3
Angel Death Traps

Fennesz
Mosaic

Kemper Norton
Tall Trees (And Other Tales)

Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba
NOW!

GbClifford
My Heart is Bigger Than the Grief Inside of It

Partial Defrag
ScanDisk

sm^sher
pit of mine

Kim Deal
Nobody Loves You More

Juanita Stein
The Weightless Hour

Merchants
Marrow

Sly & The Family Drone
Moon Is Doom Backwards

Lewis Spybey
LEWISPYBEY

McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson
Forces of Nature

Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan
Scraping the Divine

Papa M
Ballads Of Harry Houdini

Lorenzo Abattoir
Mess (Akt IV)

Robin Carolan
Nosferatu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Cahill Costello
Cahill/Costello II

Able Noise
High Tide

Dennis Bovell
Sufferer Sounds

Warmduscher
Too Cold To Hold

Sal Dulu
Nafuchsia In Fantasy

Toni Sauna
8EEFour

Michaela Turcerová
alene et