Album of the Week

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Album of the Week

Night Fever: Iceboy Violet’s Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion

The febrile new album from Manchester's Iceboy Violet offers a portal into a whole scene, for Eden Tizard

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EP Of The Week: Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

John Doran welcomes the complex emotional register and melodicism of Richard D. James' latest EP for Warp

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Mighty Aphrodite: Love’s Holiday By Oxbow

The Californian art-rockers' most tender album still packs plenty of punch, finds JR Moores

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Breaking The Raves: Absurd Matter By Shapednoise

After experiencing sudden hearing loss, Shapednoise explores the terror, anxiety, power and jubilation of noise. It’s his most complete offering yet, says Skye Butchard

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Unrecognisable To Myself: I Inside the Old Year Dying By PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey’s tenth album marks a heroic continuation of form – and an intimate, internal refrain. Will Ainsley tracks this elusive album through the drisk

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Contact Buzz: Full-On By Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void

Loops and drones leave you reeling in a suite of tracks whose brevity is no barrier to their psychedelic effects, finds Jon Buckland

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Crisis Mode: Mesmerizer By Selvhenter

On Selvhenter's latest, the group moves like an off-kilter communal organism connected by energy, flowing freely from one idea to the next, says Bernie Brooks

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Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

The final album from the late Philip Jeck is a touching collaboration with master field recordist Chris Watson, focused on a level crossing near Hull

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Bigger Than Jesus: The God Phone By Lunch Money Life

Restlessly inventive, playful and absurdist, the London quintet’s expansive latest is the imaginary soundtrack to a biblical sci-fi epic you never knew you needed in your life, finds Cal Cashin

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Against Nature: The Shell That Speaks The Sea By David Toop & Lawrence English

The Room40 label boss and Ocean of Sound author explore the darker flip-side of your iPhone’s mindfulness app, finds Daryl Worthington

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Cool Memories: Jam City Presents EFM

After a brief pastoral interlude, Jack Lathan returns to the urban nightscape with an album of wall-to-wall bangers, finds Alex Niven

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No Laughing Matter: Temps’ Party Gator Purgatory

Comedian James Acaster’s new hip-hop project drafts 40 performers into a highly inventive, maximalist debut album. Listeners who drop their guard will be richly rewarded, finds Alastair Shuttleworth

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From Caustic To Cuddly: Memorials’ Music For Film

Comprised of two very different soundtracks, one earthy and the other extra-terrestrial, Electrelane’s Verity Susman and Wire’s Matthew Simms debut as Memorials is a show of remarkable daring and versatility

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The Angel Of History: Shackleton Becomes The Purge of Tomorrow

Under new moniker, The Purge of Tomorrow, Shackleton's new album The Other Side of Devastation offers up a dubby disintegration loop through time, finds Daryl Worthington

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Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

Latest album Recovery Position sees the Oslo-Brighton duo reborn, sounding like a whole new band, finds Bernie Brooks

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American Cyclo: 2222 And Airport By Shit & Shine

When he's not careening down a mountainside on two wheels, Craig Clouse releases a relentless sream of bangers – this one's a particularly meaty one, finds Jon Buckland

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Go With The Lugaflow: Yallah Beibe By MC Yallah

MC Yallah has helped foster the African experimental electronic vanguard as a long time Nyege Nyege labelmate - now, she's ready to take on the world, finds Alex Rigotti

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Different Spirits, Different Truths: On The Romance Of Being By Desire Marea

The South Africa-based artist channels a different kind of medicine on an album of mercurial electronic soul jazz, finds Jeremy Allen

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Mother-in-DAW: Fawn/Brute By Katie Gately

With her third full-length album, the American experimental artist envelops life experience in solid electronic texture, finds Irina Shtreis

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Some Sort Of Love: Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

For Christiana Spens, author of a new book from Repeater called *The Fear*, the new LDR record goes beyond the sly masochism of its predecessors towards a new kind of intimacy

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Obliviously Blissful: In The Wilderness By Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez & Hprizm

An album of live improvised music, remixed and restructured by one of the founders of Antipop Consortium proves a hazy, smokey trip for Antonio Poscic

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Border Radio: The Ceiling Reposes By Lia Kohl

Twisting the dial and tapping at her cello, for composer Lia Kohl music is a daily practice, finds Vanessa Ague

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Cloudy With A Chance Of Glowsticks: Kate NV’s WOW

The latest collection of oddities from electronic-pop artist Ekaterina Shilonosova explore a deep inner world, writes Skye Butchard

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Forest Murmurs: Abri Cyclonique By Polobi & The Gwo Ka Masters

Will Ainsley finds Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters’ new album a tantalising – if not entirely unproblematic – listening experience

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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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Let The Sunshine In: Toquei No Sol By Marlene Ribeiro

Solo debut from Gnod, Faust and Thurstion Moore collaborator proves a balm for Tom Bolton

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The Weight Of The World: Heavy Heavy By Young Fathers

The Edinburgh trio pull out all the stops on an album that hurtles by at a febrile pace, finds Nathan Evans

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End Times: Oozing Wound’s We Cater To Cowards

If this does turn out to be their final record, Oozing Wound are going out with a nihilistic bang, says JR Moores

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Rapid Eye Movements: Saccades By Rian Treanor & Ocen James

A thrilling collaboration between Acholitronix pioneer and one of the UK's most forward-thinking electronic producers

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Ergot You Under My Skin: Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph

A special edition 12" featuring the voice of Molly Moody and the music of Maxwell Sterling accompanies the latest project from Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani

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The Loudest Silence: Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Score For Women Talking

The original soundtrack to Sarah Polley’s *Women Talking* is about transition from helplessness to action, finds Irina Shtreis

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Memento Mori: You Will Always Be By Dylan Henner

Newness and comforting familiarity are in conversation on Dylan Henner’s *You Will Always Be*, another great ambient record about death

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Night Fever: Iceboy Violet’s Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion

EP Of The Week: Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

Mighty Aphrodite: Love’s Holiday By Oxbow

Breaking The Raves: Absurd Matter By Shapednoise

Unrecognisable To Myself: I Inside the Old Year Dying By PJ Harvey

Contact Buzz: Full-On By Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void

Crisis Mode: Mesmerizer By Selvhenter

Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

Bigger Than Jesus: The God Phone By Lunch Money Life

Against Nature: The Shell That Speaks The Sea By David Toop & Lawrence English

Cool Memories: Jam City Presents EFM

No Laughing Matter: Temps’ Party Gator Purgatory

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The Angel Of History: Shackleton Becomes The Purge of Tomorrow

Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

American Cyclo: 2222 And Airport By Shit & Shine

Go With The Lugaflow: Yallah Beibe By MC Yallah

Different Spirits, Different Truths: On The Romance Of Being By Desire Marea

Mother-in-DAW: Fawn/Brute By Katie Gately

Some Sort Of Love: Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Obliviously Blissful: In The Wilderness By Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez & Hprizm

Border Radio: The Ceiling Reposes By Lia Kohl

Cloudy With A Chance Of Glowsticks: Kate NV’s WOW

Forest Murmurs: Abri Cyclonique By Polobi & The Gwo Ka Masters

Personal Bopper: Suddenly My Mind Is Blank By Jouska

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The Weight Of The World: Heavy Heavy By Young Fathers

End Times: Oozing Wound’s We Cater To Cowards

Rapid Eye Movements: Saccades By Rian Treanor & Ocen James

Ergot You Under My Skin: Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph

The Loudest Silence: Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Score For Women Talking

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