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What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20

Two decades on Matthew Barton considers how the revered artist came back after a 12 year absence with an album that was well worth the wait

Rumbling Under The Mountains: A report On Czech Dungeon Synth

Miloš Hroch journies under Medieval castles (literally) to speak with the leaders of Czechia's small but fantastical dungeon synth scene

The Dwarfs of East Agouza

Sasquatch Landslide

The Cairo trio of Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi and Alan Bishop leave the maps behind, heading off into an uncharted sonic territory between post-improvisation, contemporary folk and electronica

Kwes

Kinds

A suite of delicately coloured ambient electronics offering an almost child-like sense of wonder

Tanya Tagaq

Saputjiji

The award-winning Inuk throat singer and composer returns with her seventh album, as vital and terrifying as ever

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke

In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more

Delphine Dora

L’ineluctable pulsation du temps

Inspired by a German 'sociologist of speed', the French composer and improviser presents a suite of highly resonant compositions

LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening track by track

Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains

Silver Jews' David Berman is back with his first new music for over a decade. Purple Mountains' eponymous debut is a fine and moving addition to his oeuvre, finds Noel Gardner

Demolishing the Outmoded Society: Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber

Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year

Julian Marszalek relishes a live box set that captures a band at the moment of transition – in invention and reinvention – but, he asks, were they the Beatles of hardcore?

Ricardo Villalobos, Underground Resistance and More Rework Sun Ra Arkestra on New Compilation

When There Is No Sun draws on the Arkestra's 2022 album Living Sky, as well as a 2023 release celebrating Sun Ra's poetry

Kibrom Birhane

Lisané Bahir

Ethio-jazz meets modular synths on this thrilling record from the Ethiopia-born, LA-based musician

Robyn Details First Album in Eight Years, ‘Sexistential’

Following last year's comeback single 'Dopamine', the new record marks the Swedish artist's first LP since signing with Young