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Moin
Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

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Red Mar
Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

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Andy Bell
Ten Crowns

Erasure singer heads to Nashville, belts out a suite of ten big pop anthems seasoned with a healthy dash of club music, gospel and Debbie Harry

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Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we

Two decades since their last album, the Welsh post-hardcore group return with jagged riffs and irreverent song titles still firmly in place, finds Oliver Cookson

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Das Kinn
Ruinenkampf

Frankfurt's former geriatric nurse imagines The Strangers discovering EBM on experimental Hamburg label Bureau B

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Staraya Derevnya
Garden window escape

Psychedelic septet tread the line between motorik groove and full-blown freak-out, finds Rosie Solomon

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elijah jamal asani
,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

Beautiful, sparse lowercase music recorded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

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Deerhoof
Noble And Godlike In Ruin

On their nineteenth album, the San Francisco quartet show no signs of letting up their brutal assault on pop music conventions

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The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
Plays music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, Gerard Lebik, Luigi Russolo, John Hegre

Recreating the bizarre instrumentarium of Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, Luciano Chessa and his orchestra play new music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, and others

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Hieroglyphic Being
Dance Music 4 Bad People

Jamal Moss reclaims club music for the cause of collective ecstasy and speculative weirdness

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Lucy Railton
Blue Veil

For her first album playing cello alone without electronics, the Berlin-based composer-performer pushes the instrument's overtones to a fever pitch, finds Levi Dayan

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Gryphon Rue
I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water

Gryphon Rue’s new LP creaks and grumbles and hums with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical, says Bernie Brooks

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Maria Somerville
Luster

Moving back to Ireland's Atlantic coast and signing to 4AD, Maria Somerville makes dreamy shoegazing pop with a little help from Lankum's Ian Lynch and Margie Jean Lewis

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Emma-Jean Thackray
Weirdo

The genre-busting iconoclast makes a fearless leap forward on her life-saving second album

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Sumac & Moor Mother
The Film

The Philadelphian poet-musician-activist joins up with the North American power trio for a full-on free metal apocalypse

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Anika
Abyss

Sanding off the sharp electronic edges in favour of a more raw, live, analogue sound, Anika may have just produced the cyberpunk Let England Shake, finds Hayley Scott

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DUCKWRTH
All American Fuckboy

Even the presence of actor LaKeith Stanfield fails to lift this narrative of lust and redemption to the epic proportions of its own ambitions, finds Eden Tizard

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Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music

Recorded at the Ras Hotel ballroom in Addis Ababa in 1976, Stereo Instrumental Music presents a unique document of the vibrant Ethiopian music scene of the 1970s

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Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne
Hand To Mouth

Experimental and minimalist music where chilly first impressions prove to be deceptive

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Tapeworms
Grand Voyage

Effervescent French trio find their sweet-toothed groove on synth-heavy second album

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Raven Chacon
Voiceless Mass

The Milwaukee-based group Present Music draw out the composer’s poetry of sound, space and silence

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Quade
The Foel Tower

Bristol-based post-rock quartet summon the particular landscape of western Britain, finds Cal Cashin

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Bb trickz
80’z

At barely twelve minutes long, the twenty-four year-old Spanish rapper's latest eight-song suite may be the shortest album we've ever reviewed – and certainly one of the most addictive

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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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Critical Thinking

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Moin
Belly Up

Red Mar
Our Low Cell

Andy Bell
Ten Crowns

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we

Das Kinn
Ruinenkampf

Staraya Derevnya
Garden window escape

elijah jamal asani
,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

Deerhoof
Noble And Godlike In Ruin

The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
Plays music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, Gerard Lebik, Luigi Russolo, John Hegre

Hieroglyphic Being
Dance Music 4 Bad People

Lucy Railton
Blue Veil

Gryphon Rue
I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water

Maria Somerville
Luster

Emma-Jean Thackray
Weirdo

Sumac & Moor Mother
The Film

Anika
Abyss

DUCKWRTH
All American Fuckboy

Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music

Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne
Hand To Mouth

Tapeworms
Grand Voyage

Raven Chacon
Voiceless Mass

Quade
The Foel Tower

Bb trickz
80’z

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

Manic Street Preachers
Critical Thinking