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Anadol and Marie Klock
La grande accumulation

A quirky pop collaboration between artists from Paris and Istanbul, with each half of the pair seemingly pushing the other to greater heights of oddness

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Primal Scream
Come Ahead

With Bobby Gillespie virtually the sole surviving member, Primal Scream offer diminished returns, writes lapsed fan JR Moores

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Rubbish Music
Fatbergs

Taking inspiration from the great globs of grease that clog up our cities’ sewers, Iain Chambers and Kate Carr make creaky, echoey electro-acoustic music from waste

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Underworld
Strawberry Hotel

British electronic music duo go Grand Hotel with fifteen tracks that take in everything from Monteverdi to Nina Nastasia

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One True Pairing
Endless Rain

Former Wild Beast releases his inner sad boy, but there’s weirdness to the moping, finds Jeremy Allen

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Buñuel
Mansuetude

After his announced departure from Oxbow earlier this year, Eugene Robinson still has plenty of deep, dark stories to tell, finds Jared Dix

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Ange Madame
Ange Madame

Angel-Ho is reborn as a twisted cabaret star on a record stuffed with eccentric and at times testing ideas, writes Skye Butchard

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HWI
Humanly Possible

South Korean audio-visual artist and electronic producer HWI is a natural explorer on her debut album, writes Skye Butchard

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Tullis Rennie
Safe Operating Space

Free improv sessions get warped into booming, boundary-pushing electronica on the new album from the Hastings-based composer-producer-improviser-performer

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Bogdan Raczynski
You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever

The latest from the Polish-American producer may be more minimalist, even more light-hearted than its predecessor, but it still packs a helluva punch, finds Aydin Khalili

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Félicia Atkinson
Space As An Instrument

From simple ingredients – spoke words, field recordings, a few notes from a piano – the French composer builds intense worlds of feeling

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Jabu
A Soft and Gatherable Star

Bristol trio make medicated music for the small hours finds Jon Buckland

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TAAHLIAH
Gramarye

With guest spots from naafi and Blood Orange, the Glasgow-based DJ and producer opens up into more experimental, expansive territory on her solo debut album

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Fievel is Glauque
Rong Weicknes

With longer, more tightly structured songs, the Brussels-via-Brooklyn group still hold on to the spontaneity of free improv

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BABii
DareDeviil2000

With additional production by Iglooghost, Pholouk, Warpstr, Mun Sing & Samuel Organ, Daisy Warne races feverishly through techno, electronica, grime, UKG and R&B

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Lyzza
Third World: The Bottom Dimension

The Brazilian artist's music for a videogame-cum-art installation deserves to be ranked among the best of the form, finds Alexander Leissle

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The Necks
Bleed

After thirty-five years the Australian improvising trio are still pushing forward into strange new territories, finds Levi Dayan

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Saagara
3

Wacław Zimpel’s wild sax and electronica meets Carnatic musical traditions in a collaboration with Giridhar Udupa, Aggu Baba, Mysore N. Karthik and K. Raja

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Karl D’Silva
Love Is A Flame In The Dark

Sometime Damo Suzuki, Thurston Moore and Oren Ambarchi collaborator, branches out on his own with an album of iconoclastic technicolour pop

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The Bug
Machine

Kevin Martin waves his sword about, abuses white goods, and bares his soul (just a little)

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Hawksmoor
Oneironautics

Bristol-based modular synth-twiddler dreams of motorway junctions and Tangerine Dream

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Mariam the Believer
Breathing Techniques

Space and cinematic richness suggest a tender vulnerability on Mariam Wallentin's third solo album

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Meemo Comma
Decimation of I

Lara Rix-Martin's fifth Meemo Comma album takes inspiration from a classic of Soviet science fiction

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Richard Skelton
The Old Thrawing Crux

The Lancastrian electroacoustic composer weaves a web of sonic fictions around his latest exercise in epic ambience

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OneDa
Formula OneDa

Manchester MC brings puts the pedal to the metal with a full tank of righteous pussy power

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Blood Incantation
Absolute Elsewhere

Rich, ambient tapestries meet serious metal riffing on the latest from Denver's Blood Incantation

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The Shovel Dance Collective
The Shovel Dance

Memento mori lurk everywhere in the London-based nonet’s sombre excavation of traditional songs from the British Isles

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Mark Templeton
Two Verses

The Edmonton-born electronic music artist may be sampling muzak, but he’s certainly not making muzak, finds Levi Dayan

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Jennifer Walshe/Kurt Schwitters
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Jennifer Walshe tackles the notoriously difficult sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters – with a little help from some AI

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CS + Kreme
The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise

Melbourne two-piece take a drift through pastoral worlds of sound

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Alan Sparhawk
White Roses, My God

Low frontman tries to put the pieces back together

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Sex Swing
Golden Triangle

Triumphant return for noise rock sextet – perhaps their fleshiest record so far, finds Alex Deller

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Anadol and Marie Klock La grande accumulation

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One True Pairing Endless Rain

Buñuel Mansuetude

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HWI Humanly Possible

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Lyzza Third World: The Bottom Dimension

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Anadol and Marie Klock
La grande accumulation

Primal Scream
Come Ahead

Rubbish Music
Fatbergs

Underworld
Strawberry Hotel

One True Pairing
Endless Rain

Buñuel
Mansuetude

Ange Madame
Ange Madame

HWI
Humanly Possible

Tullis Rennie
Safe Operating Space

Bogdan Raczynski
You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever

Félicia Atkinson
Space As An Instrument

Jabu
A Soft and Gatherable Star

TAAHLIAH
Gramarye

Fievel is Glauque
Rong Weicknes

BABii
DareDeviil2000

Lyzza
Third World: The Bottom Dimension

The Necks
Bleed

Saagara
3

Karl D’Silva
Love Is A Flame In The Dark

The Bug
Machine

Hawksmoor
Oneironautics

Mariam the Believer
Breathing Techniques

Meemo Comma
Decimation of I

Richard Skelton
The Old Thrawing Crux

OneDa
Formula OneDa

Blood Incantation
Absolute Elsewhere

The Shovel Dance Collective
The Shovel Dance

Mark Templeton
Two Verses

Jennifer Walshe/Kurt Schwitters
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CS + Kreme
The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise

Alan Sparhawk
White Roses, My God

Sex Swing
Golden Triangle

Ethel Cain
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You