Album of the Week

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Homesick Astronaut: Hinged By Maarja Nuut

On Maarja Nuut's latest album, Richard Foster finds a restless sonic explorer

Home And Away: Bulbils’ Blue Forty

Compiling some of their best bits from an extensive lockdown archive, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington have produced a salve for our collective malaise, finds Johny Lamb

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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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First Class On A Crashing Plane: Dave’s We’re All Alone In This Together

Santan Dave releases his second album *We’re All Alone In This Together* with guest spots from Stormzy, Giggs, Ghetts, Fredo, and more, cementing his place at the top of the scene

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Encyclopedia Musica: Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế By Rắn Cạp Đuôi

Following their 2019 EP *Degradation*, the Vietnamese collective return with a sweeping and wonderfully sensuous LP that succeeds in sounding genuinely new, finds James Gui

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Beware Of The Blob: Lucy & Aaron By Lucrecia Dalt & Aaron Dilloway

For their first proper album as a duo, Lucrecia Dalt and Aaron Dilloway mesh gauziness with darkness to lucid results, finds Vanessa Ague

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Uncanny Valley: Moot! By Moin

Tomaga's Valentina Magaletti teams up with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead to produce an album of post-rock grooves pent up with urban unease – a compelling combination, finds Alec Holt

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Justified & Ancient: Duane Pitre Explores Alternative Tuning In The Harmonic Series II

With works by Kali Malone, Caterina Barbieri, Tashi Wada, and others, American musician Duane Pitre assembles a thrilling compendium of works employing the scintillating sound of Just Intonation

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The Third Wave: Former Things By LoneLady

Julie Campbell’s third LoneLady record offsets temporal anxieties with sparkling synth pop melodies in her most ambitious album to date, finds Zara Hedderman

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The Fear Goes On: Dean Blunt’s Black Metal 2

Seven years after the first instalment, Dean Blunt’s *Black Metal* sequel makes a gorgeous addition to the oeuvre of Hackney’s master art-pop prankster, finds Eden Tizard

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Health Is Wealth: Don Cherry’s Organic Music Theatre Revisited

A new multimedia programme gives context to the swirl of colour that was Don and Moki Cherry’s expansive 1970s experiments in “world fusion”

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Sky’s The Limit: Reflection By Loraine James

Frenetic beats and anxious words characterise the bold and thrilling new album by the artist behind our 2019 album of the year

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Hopeful Monsters: Cavalcade By Black Midi

Temporarily reduced to a three-piece, London's Black Midi are back with an audacious leap of a record

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On The Blink: WINK By CHAI

The third album by Chai finds the Tokyo quartet at their most smooth and comforting – but also their most prickly and pointed, finds Tara Joshi

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Lights Are Much Brighter There: Daddy’s Home By St. Vincent

St. Vincent's new album wants to be loose and gritty and bluesy and dirty. It's not that. But it's still great, says our review

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Edge Of Tomorrow: Black to the Future By Sons of Kemet

Shabaka Hutchings’ volatile jazz quartet undergo a gradual evolution on their fourth LP, but don’t lose anything in the process

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One In A Million: Tony Allen’s Brilliant Swansong

Featuring collaborations with Skepta, Ben Okri, and Danny Brown, the final album from afrobeat legend Tony Allen offers a fitting coda to one of music's great second acts, finds Jeremy Allen (no relation)

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Licence To Drill: RV’s Rico Vondelle Mixtape

In the new mixtape from North London's RV, Denzil Bell catches a glimpse of the future of drill

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Small Is Beautiful: XMIT By Microcorps

Collaborations with Nik Void, Gazelle Twin, Simon Fisher Turner, and Astrud Steehouder make the latest project from Alexander Tucker all the more essential, finds Ryan Diduck

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Fuzzy Logic: A Softer Focus By Claire Rousay

The second Claire Rousay release in as many months feels like a revelation, for Robert Barry

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Steamed & (Im)Pressed: New Long Leg By Dry Cleaning

The debut album by Dry Cleaning is as oblique and unsettling as Hans Holbein's skull, finds Nancy Collinge

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The Mark Of Infinity: Tomaga’s Intimate Immensity

The final album by the duo of Valentina Magaletti and the late Tom Relleen deftly sums up what made their live shows so thrilling, finds Antonio Poscic

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Anime Mundi: Meemo Comma’s Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²

For her latest release on Planet Mu, Meemo Comma weaves together science fiction and Jewish mysticism with luminous results, finds Hannah Pezzack

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Life As We Know It: As Days Get Dark By Arab Strap

Arab Strap are putting their age to good use on the brilliant *As Days Get Dark*, says Bernie Brooks

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All The Right Moves: A Thrilling Debut From Nuha Ruby Ra

How To Move, the debut EP from sometime Flamingods and Warmduscher collaborator Nuha Ruby Ra, is a slap in the face of convention, finds Michael Appouh

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The Magic Of Stereolab: Electrically Possessed Reviewed

The fourth volume of Stereolab's Switched On series gathers together deep cuts from 1999 - 2008 revealing a band whose joyfulness and ingenuity persistently wrongfooted the critics, finds Zara Hedderman

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Doom By Other Means: Alkisah By Senyawa

The instrumentation may be radically different, but in their own way Indonesian duo Senyawa are as heavy and as foreboding as anything in the metal canon, finds Tom Coles

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California Dreams: Pauline Anna Strom’s Angel Tears In Sunlight

Posthumously released, the last album by electronic music pioneer Pauline Anna Strom deserves your full attention, finds Hannah Pezzack

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Plague Island’s Youth Division: For The First Time By Black Country, New Road

Black Country, New Road are one of the most exciting bands in a standout London music scene, and this album is a candid portrait of where the band are at a few years into their existence, finds Cal Cashin

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Back To The Future: The Body’s I’ve Seen All I Need To See

The Body's latest LP, I've Seen All I Need To See, is a monstrously heavy, crushingly bleak monument to humankind's ruin, says Bernie Brooks

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Digging Through Plastic: Tiziano Popoli’s Collected Recordings

A collection of the works of 1980s recordings by one of Bruno Maderna's former students reveals a composer far too much fun to be confined to the academy

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Bard On A Wire: Sleaford Mods’ Spare Ribs Reviewed

From Conservatism to consumerism, there's plenty in contemporary Britain to attract the lyrical ire of Jason Wiliamson. But, argues JR Moores, there's a lot more to Sleaford Mods than needlsharp commentary on the everyday present

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Homesick Astronaut: Hinged By Maarja Nuut

Home And Away: Bulbils’ Blue Forty

What We Do Now Will Forever Define Us: The Apple Drop By Liars

First Class On A Crashing Plane: Dave’s We’re All Alone In This Together

Encyclopedia Musica: Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế By Rắn Cạp Đuôi

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Uncanny Valley: Moot! By Moin

Justified & Ancient: Duane Pitre Explores Alternative Tuning In The Harmonic Series II

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The Fear Goes On: Dean Blunt’s Black Metal 2

Health Is Wealth: Don Cherry’s Organic Music Theatre Revisited

Sky’s The Limit: Reflection By Loraine James

Hopeful Monsters: Cavalcade By Black Midi

On The Blink: WINK By CHAI

Lights Are Much Brighter There: Daddy’s Home By St. Vincent

Edge Of Tomorrow: Black to the Future By Sons of Kemet

One In A Million: Tony Allen’s Brilliant Swansong

Licence To Drill: RV’s Rico Vondelle Mixtape

Small Is Beautiful: XMIT By Microcorps

Fuzzy Logic: A Softer Focus By Claire Rousay

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Life As We Know It: As Days Get Dark By Arab Strap

All The Right Moves: A Thrilling Debut From Nuha Ruby Ra

The Magic Of Stereolab: Electrically Possessed Reviewed

Doom By Other Means: Alkisah By Senyawa

California Dreams: Pauline Anna Strom’s Angel Tears In Sunlight

Plague Island’s Youth Division: For The First Time By Black Country, New Road

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