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Galya Bisengalieva
Polygon Reflections

Remixes by The Bug, KMRU, Lucy Liyou and others transform the Kazakh violinist's 2024 album of relections on the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site

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Push

The duo of artists Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba captures the peculiar numbness of the present, finds Hayley Scott

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Marja Ahti
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth

Developed at Stockholm's EMS studios and first presented at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, the Swedish sound artist's latest is filled with an expansive sense of exploration

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Rian Treanor and Cara Tolmie
Body Lapse

Rian Treanor teams up with sound poet and performer Cara Tolmie for an album that perfectly captures the chaos of modern living

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Baxter Dury
Allbarone

Backed up by super producer Paul Epworth, the latest from Dury Jr finds the singer at his rawest – and perhaps most exposed

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Maruja
Pain to Power

Early EPs and live shows by the Mancunian indie rock band were full of visceral noise and elemental force, but for George Francis Lee, their debut album just doesn't live up to their initial promise

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Lucrecia Dalt
A Danger to Ourselves

Joined by David Sylvian and Juana Molina, Lucrecia Dalt finds wild abandon in minimalist electronics and eerie soundscapes, finds Lina Adams

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Gwenifer Raymond
Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

With her finger-picked acoustic guitar, the Welsh-born artist plays hymns to dusty landscapes and oddball outsiders

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Kinzoogianna
The Clique of ’86

Jazz virtuouso goes electro-boogie on a neon-streaked night ride to the past – without a trace of nostalgia

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Saint Etienne
International

The final album from Bob, Pete and Sarah. And they're going out with a bang, finds Ian Wade

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Dream Skills and Burn Into Sleep
I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry

A collaboration between siblings produces a completely beguiling body of work that’s simultaneously scary and sexy, finds Zara Hedderman

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Prolapse
I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face

More than a quarter-century since their last album, the Leicester post-punks sound as sludgy and dyspeptic as ever

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BlankFor.ms
After The Town Was Swept Away

Brooklyn-based ambient music composer stringing degraded tape loops into sinister new shapes

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Guedra Guedra
Mutant

On his second full-length album, Abdellah M. Hassak creates sonic cartography

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Adrian Sherwood
The Collapse Of Everything

Over a decade since his last solo record, the UK dub pioneer returns with Brian Eno and the late Keith LeBlanc in tow along with a swelling sense of hope

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Blood Orange
Essex Honey

Devonté Hynes returns to England with a jolt on the first new Blood Orange LP for six years

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush

The LA-based artist foregrounds non-verbal communication

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Rún
Rún

Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience

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Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars
Amazing Things

The former Hefner singer delivers a beautiful work of mourning, backed by massed electric guitars

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Earl Sweatshirt
Live Laugh Love

The ex-Odd Future member grows up, still just as intense as ever

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Sunik Kim
Formenverwandler

The writer, filmmaker and musician explores time and memory on an album of music that sounds ferocious, ecstatic, and at points playfully absurd

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Abhorrent Expanse
Enter the Misanthropocene

Recorded live in the studio, the Chicago quartet's latest longplayer takes metal to wild and free new dimensions

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Preservation & Gabe ‘Nandez
Sortilège

In a hip pop landscape often defined by surface-level bravado, Gabe ‘Nandez and Preservation summon something rarer: a record that feels like prophecy, ritual, and rebellion all at once

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Deftones
Private Music

90s nu-metal survivors indulge in a séance, but the ghost they are summoning is… themselves?

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Meitei
Sen’nyū

An album of ambient music composed of flutes, drones and field recordings, inspired by Japanese onsen culture – best listened to while lazing in the bath

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Water From Your Eyes
It’s A Beautiful Place

They’ll take your brain to another dimension. Pay close attention

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Wolf Alice
The Clearing

The award scoopers’ fourth album fails to live up to its bombastic lead single, says JR Moores

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Various Artists
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego

Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic

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Mondo Lava
Utero Dei

Cassette fuzz and future folk get blended with sci-fi jazz and Afro-Latin devotional grooves in a wild Burroughsian cut-up

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Panopticon
Laurentian Blue / Songs of Hiraeth

Austin Lunn splits the folk and metal sides of his project into twin albums – with mixed results

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Andrew Nolan
Monochrome Vol. 2: Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion

Solo work from The Body and Full of Hell collaborator experiments in noise, hip hop and all points in-between

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Babymetal
Metal Forth

They may not have saved the world, but the new Babymetal record is an absolute hoot, finds JR Moores

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No Joy
Bugland

Restless French-Canadian one-woman-band teams up with Fire-Toolz to wreak havoc in the digital uncanny valley

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