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Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann
An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann come together like peanut butter and jelly for a nightmare soul revue, says Bernie Brooks

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Angeline Morrison
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

The Cornish singer reintegrates tales of Black British experience into the English folk tradition

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Arctic Monkeys
The Car

The latest from Alex Turner & co. finds the group stepping out in grand style with results amongst their very best, finds Fergal Kinney

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Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Another win for the resurgent cutup composer, this time mining a Finnish jazz label's back catalog for source material

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Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

There's more to Winter's latest than early 90s nostalgia, finds Aug Stone

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The Umlauts
Another Fact

South London band's debut looks to the future – albeit a future caked in a hefty patina of dirt and grit, finds Shrey Kathuria

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Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Swedish prog revivalists explore the adventurous side of sobriety

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Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Eno sings – and finally lays to rest any suggestions that the ambient godfather is 'not a musician', finds Jeremy Allen

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L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Folkish whimsy meets hip hop flow on the new album by London's L.A. Salami

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Sonic shock and awe, auditory rapid domination, and roiling low frequencies with the fluid power of a ballista, Shit and Shine’s *New Confusion* is a mangled collection of heavy magic and strange genre digressions clotted with sheer brilliance. Will Ainsley explains why

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Loraine James
Building Something Beautiful For Me

The Enfield-born producer pays tribute to the great Julius Eastman

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William Doyle
Slowly Arranged

A box set of ambient experiments by the artist fka East India Youth proves as enchanting as Mickey's brooms for Will Ainsley

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80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.2
Various Artists

A compilation from the depths of the 80s tape underground leaves Daryl Worthington throwing out his history books

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City Of Caterpillar
Mystic Sisters

Twenty years after their debut, the Richmond, Virgina, group return angrier and hungrier than ever, finds Alex Deller

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Sun Ra Arkestra
Living Sky

The Arkestra return with more cosmic tones on their second album since the departure of the great Sun Ra

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Use Knife
The Shedding of Skin

With the addition of Iraqi musician Saif Al-Qaissy and guest spots from Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart), the former duo from Belgium rise to propulsive new heights, finds Antonio Poscic

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A Shroom Of One’s Own: Björk’s Fossora Reviewed

The tenth solo album by the Icelandic auteur digs deeper than ever before, bolstered and disrupted by Indonesian gabber, Icelandic choirs and bass clarinet sextets

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The Real Tuesday Weld
Dreams

For their penultimate album, The Real Tuesday Weld offer up their own unique take on pop

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Dominic Voz
Right to the City

Composer Voz brings a glossy, rubbery sound palette to a fractured portrait of urban life

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Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker
Songs For Sad Poets

When an experimental Iranian composer and an American nihilist philosopher team up to write wordless paeans to a generation of outsider poets, things can get pretty gloomy, finds Matthew Horton

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Magma
Kãrtëhl

Magma’s vocalists take centre stage on their first collaborative album for forty-four years. It turns out that Christian Vander is a team player, finds Warren Hatter

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The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

Shabaka Hutchings, Betamax and Danalogue return, ready to blow your mind all over again, finds Brian Coney

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KEN mode
Null

The Winnipeg quartet take no prisoners on an album so brutal it feels like a punch in the face from the Trellick Tower

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Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden
I get along without you very well

Two Swedish composer-performers produce a unique take on pop song writing, finds Daniel Hignell

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Concentration
Aren’t You Gonna Introduce Me To Your Friend?

Top notch shithousery on Bristol's Avon Terror Corps, finds Noel Gardner

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Crack Cloud
Tough Baby

The DIY collective cast any semblance of genre to the wind, as choirs and strings rub up against kazzos and jagged guitars

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All Structures Align
Distance and Departure

A second release for the brother Ineson on Joe Thompson's Wrong Speed Records proves knottier and more mysterious than it first seems, for Jared Dix

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Suede
Autofiction

The band's ninth album finds them fully ensconced in their own world, still throwing out absolute goth bangers

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The Mars Volta
s/t

The duo make an audacious return following a decade long hiatus with a record that will make you think a thousand things at once

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The London Sound Survey
From Dusk Till Dawn

Sound recordist and archivist Ian Rawes passed away late last year. His final album for the Persistence of Sound label proves a revelation for Agata Kik

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Gabe Gurnsey
Diablo

Rinsed in 808 beats, and tropical synths, Diablo is an immersive burst of colour, finds Laviea Thomas

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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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Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann
An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Angeline Morrison
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

Arctic Monkeys
The Car

Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

The Umlauts
Another Fact

Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Shit and Shine
New Confusion

Loraine James
Building Something Beautiful For Me

William Doyle
Slowly Arranged

80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.2
Various Artists

City Of Caterpillar
Mystic Sisters

Sun Ra Arkestra
Living Sky

Use Knife
The Shedding of Skin

The Real Tuesday Weld
Dreams

Dominic Voz
Right to the City

Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker
Songs For Sad Poets

Magma
Kãrtëhl

The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

KEN mode
Null

Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden
I get along without you very well

Concentration
Aren’t You Gonna Introduce Me To Your Friend?

Crack Cloud
Tough Baby

All Structures Align
Distance and Departure

Suede
Autofiction

The Mars Volta
s/t

The London Sound Survey
From Dusk Till Dawn

Gabe Gurnsey
Diablo

Katie Kim
Hour of the Ox