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Amanda Farah

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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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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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Mariam the Believer

Breathing Techniques

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

Amelia

Laurie Anderson's tribute to Amelia Earhart searches for the woman behind the myth
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Julia-Sophie

Forgive Too Slow

Formerly of Little Fish and Candy Says, the Anglo-French singer-producer here fills floors and breaks hearts in roughly equal measure
Album of the Week

The Universe Is Wrong: Love In Constant Spectacle By Jane Weaver

Drawing on her broadest sonic palette yet, Love In Constant Spectacle finds Jane Weaver at her most compelling and her most personal, finds Amanda Farah
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Sunna Margrét

Finger on Tongue

Oddball Icelandic pop packs a dense punch, heavy with ideas, finds Amanda Farah
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Tomato Flower

No

The full-length debut quartet is rife with tensions, both musical and personal, finds Amanda Farah
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Nadine Shah

Filthy Underneath

The fifth album from the British singer-songwriter comes with plenty of baggage, but it carries it elegantly and with humour, finds Amanda Farah
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Devil In The Detail: A Time To Love, A Time To Die By Amor Muere

An album of strings, songs and electronics by a quartet of Mexican women pulls you in with the sweetness of its arrangements before leading you into darker waters, finds Amanda Farah
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Vanishing Twin

Afternoon X

A slimmed down line-up sees Vanishing Twin making great strides in dreamlike spaces, finds Amanda Farah

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CHAI

CHAI

The latest album from the energetic Japanese quartet suggests 'cute' need not be antithetical to 'subversive', finds Amanda Farah
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Alabaster DePlume

Come With Fierce Grace

Backed by a gand featuring Falle Nioke, Ruth Goller and Sarathy Korwar, the latest from the lynchpin of the Total Refreshment Centre scene is heavy on the percussion, high on exuberance, finds Amanda Farah
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Blur

The Ballad Of Darren

In a year that has already seen the releases of a Gorillaz album, a solo record from Dave Rowntree, and the debut from Graham Coxon’s the Waeve, a new Blur album was an unlikely addition to the docket. With so many outlets for their work, what creative impulse drives their ninth album?
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Current Affairs

Off the Tongue

Glaswegian quartet make spikey, scrappy post-punk that exudes an overwhelming feeling of joy, finds Amanda Farah
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Saroos

Turtle Roll

Members of The Notwist, Driftmachine, Lali Puna and Tvii Son invite a bevvy of guest vocalists for a record of eeries tensions and idiosyncratic percussion, finds Amanda Farah
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Debby Friday

Good Luck

With its harsh sounds and pulsing beats, *Good Luck* is a debut album that bursts from the starting blocks wiuth all guns blazing
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Spektral Quartet, Julia Holter, Alex Temple

Behind the Wallpaper

Julia Holter adds measured grace to a song cycle about personal transformation
Album of the Week

Personal Bopper: Suddenly My Mind Is Blank By Jouska

Crisp beats and intimate lyrics draw in the listener – but not too close – on the second album from Norway’s Jouska
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Katie Kim

Hour of the Ox

The Irish musician, singer-songwriter and composer takes time to reveal her temper on this warped and woozy record, finds Amanda Farah
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Eliza Niemi

Staying Mellow Blows

For Toronto multi-hyphenate Eliza Niemi, this debut album marks a giant sonic leap from the early singles – with songs and sass to match
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Irina Shtreis

Ether

For her first album under her own name, Irina Shtreis conjures up dreamworlds out of electronic loops with a sure-footed lightness of touch, finds Amanda Farah
Album of the Week

Inner Visions: Tresor By Gwenno

Gwenno's second (mostly) Cornish-language album runs merry minimalism against hard-edged modernism with enchanting results
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Mall Girl

Superstar

A lockdown album from the Oslo-based alt.rock four-piece hits all the right notes for Amanda Farah
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Mira Calix

absent origin

A multi-faceted record from the Warp artist and occasional Royal Shakespeare Company composer
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Grouper

Shade

Liz 'Grouper' Harris digs through her archive for an album of intimate, stripped-back treats spanning her decade-and-a-half long career
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No Body Knows: Ydegirl’s Startling Debut Album

Pulling strange shapes out of guitars, violins, and clarinets, the eponymous debut by Danish artist Andrea Novel is a study in self-estrangement
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Princess Century

s u r r e n d e r

Maya Postepski of Austra and TR/ST goes full pop on her new Princess Century album, finds Amanda Farah
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Art School Girlfriend

Is It Light Where You Are

Polly Mackey's debut is suffused with longing, but it's the beats and percussion that take centre stage, finds Amanda Farah
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Sheep, Dog & Wolf

Two-Minds

What started off as a deeply personal album for New Zealand folk-pop artist Daniel McBride has proved surprisingly universal, finds Amanda Farah
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Lisel + Booker Stardrum

Mycelial Echo

A work for choreographer Gwendolyn Gussman and an opera about trees provided the starting points for this collaboration between Lisel and Booker Stardrum. But it's on headphones that the music really comes alive for Amanda Farah
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serpentwithfeet

DEACON

Josiah Wise finds joy in the making of his second serpentwithfeet album. Amanda Farah, in the listening, likewise
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