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Human After All: City of Clowns by Marie Davidson

Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s critique of 'surveillance capitalism', the Canadian artist makes electronic music for people, not algorithms, finds Will Salmon

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Mirrored Daughters

Mirrored Daughters

Dragging their instruments through Epping Forest, members of Firestations and The Leaf Library team up with Marlody and Hannah Reeves to evoke a troubled exurban environment
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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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Winds Of Change: Memorial Waterslides by Memorials is our Album of the Week

Following soundtracks for Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Gonzalez, and Kevin Hegge, members of Wire and Electrelane unite for a new project that has Will Salmon under its strange spell
Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Throbbing Gristle’s The Third Mind Movements

Industrial innovators Throbbing Gristle’s reissue program wraps up by shining light on a relatively obscure title which inadvertently became the group's final official release, says Will Salmon
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Flight b741

Moustachioed Melbourn sextet return for another roll of the dice, this time with added harmonica
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Chrystabell & David Lynch

Cellophane Memories

The latest collaboration between the Texan singer and the surrealist film-maker shimmers with aching sighs and languorous guitar licks
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Compilation of the Week: Broadcast’s Spell Blanket (Collected Demos 2006-2009)

Will Salmon feels a strange mix of melancholy and joy on hearing this valuable collection of demo tracks
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Rosie Tee

Night Creature

Birmingham psychonaut moves in a tighter, more pop-focussed direction, finds Will Salmon
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Sasha Renkas

Safe Place

From Kyiv, an album of 'nighttime music', all dreamy synths and hushed vocals, looks back with nostalgia across a ruined cityscape
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Soundtrack Of The Week: Flux Gourmet

Brilliant film director Peter Strickland has long flown the flag for psychedelic, eccentric and disconcerting European music but on latest film Flux Gourmet he put his money where his mouth was by including his own very curious group, The Sonic Catering Band. Will Salmon celebrates a singular soundtrack and vision
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Belbury Poly

The Path

Ghost Box stalwarts Belbury Poly return with a seventh album that has Will Salmon under its spell

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Peace Flag Ensemble

Astral Plains

The subtle tones of this Canadian jazz ensemble recall the wide open plains of Saskatchewan for Will Salmon
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Mandy, Indiana

I’ve Seen A Way

Francophone Manchester-based quartet sound crisp and fuzzy in equal measures on debut LP, finds Will Salmon
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Mark Jenkin

Enys Men (Original Score)

Director Mark Jenkin offers up a sinister take on the haunted sound of post-millennial electronica for his new film, Enys Men
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Fenella

The Metallic Index

Jane Weavers experimental ensemble plays hauting paeans to the electric girl of the 1920s
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The Cat’s Miaow

Songs ’94–’98

A compilation from Melbourne's lo-fi heroes proves a treat for Will Salmon
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Soundcarriers

Wilds

After seven years away, Soundcarriers return with more exotica-tinged boot-fair futurism
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Medici Daughter

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London's Medici Daughter may hark back to early 00s braindance but their debut boasts an unhinged intensity which can't help but surge forward, finds Will Salmon
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What We Do Now Will Forever Define Us: The Apple Drop By Liars

Liars turn twenty in grand style with perhaps the most welcoming – and most uncanny – record to date, finds Will Salmon
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Joon

Dream Again

The artist formerly known as Yews moves to Italians Do It Better for an album of uptempo dance numbers and downtempo emoting
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Backxwash

I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses

Following last year's award-winning *God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out Of It*, Montreal's Backxwash returns fiercer than ever, finds Will Salmon
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Glüme

The Internet

With a touch of old school Hollywood glamour, the debut album from new Italians Do It Better signing Glüme makes for a subtly strange and alluring record, finds Will Salmon
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Dntel

The Seas Trees See

The first of the year's two promised Dntel albums offers an intriguing glimpse into Jimmy Tamborello's sketchbook for Will Salmon
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Yu Su

Yellow River Blue

The rising star producer has travel on her mind. Will Salmon explores her intriguing debut LP
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Still Corners

The Last Exit

The dream pop duo hit the road on their Americana-infused new album. Will Salmon rides shotgun
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Beautify Junkyards

Cosmorama

New on Ghost Box, Portugal's Beautify Junkyards release their fourth album, a rich and many-faceted thing, according to Will Salmon
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Faten Kanaan

A Mythology Of Circles

Brooklyn composer-performer Faten Kanaan offers up wondrously strange record, full of hidden nuances, finds Will Salmon
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Clinamen

The Tropisms of Spring

The Tropisms Of Spring finds Kuba Ziołek warped and submerged in the heady atmosphere of Krzysztof Ostrowski's synthesised soundscapes. Will Salmon dives in to scoop up the pearls
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otta

Songbook

Otta's latest EP offers a playful disregard for genre boundaries, but its her soaring vocals that hang the record together, finds Will Salmon

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Cindy

I'm Cindy

Producer Kai Hugo (Palmbomen II) breathes life into semi-fictional dream pop star Cindy with vocals by Blue LoLãn
Film

Future Shocks: A Weekend At FrightFest 2018

The 19th FrightFest bank holiday weekender saw the perennial horror festival return to its home at Leicester Square with its strongest programme for several years

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