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Blumenfantasie

The Brighton-based DJ and producer grapples with the physical matter of sound – with electrifying results
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Laser Focussed: FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field by Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords

Team-up between the legendary minimalist composer and double-bassist with the kickass Baltimore freak rockers feels like a true meeting of minds, finds Levi Dayan
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Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

New Monuments Live in Vilnius

Playing live in the Lithuanian capital in 2024, the New York quintet stretch and expand the compositions from their acclaimed album of earlier this year
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Tortoise

Touch

Chicago post-rock pioneers return with their first album in nearly a decade, but have they lost the ease with which they once melded disparate styles and transgressed sonic boundaries?
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Rafael Toral

Traveling Light

The Portuguese guitarist and ambient composer takes a suite of jazz standards into strange new territory
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Melvin Gibbs

Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

When visual artist Arthur Jafa suggested Melvin Gibbs assemble a band to riff off Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, it could easily have turned into an exercise in nostalgia. But Gibbs had other ideas, taking the grooves and rhythmic experiments of electric Miles into weird and wonderful new terrains
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Sam Prekop

Open Close

The Sea and Cake singer-songwriter slowly transitions into the synthfluencer era with a languid suite of ambient tones
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Rian Treanor and Cara Tolmie

Body Lapse

Rian Treanor teams up with sound poet and performer Cara Tolmie for an album that perfectly captures the chaos of modern living
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Amina Hocine

ātamōn

Recorded in an abandoned mineshaft with a jerry-built foghorn organ, ātamōn is far from your run-of-the-mill drone record
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Ensemble Nist-Nah

Spilla

Australian musician Will Guthrie's gamelan-inspired ensemble pushes improvised percussion music to rich and experimental new heights, finds Levi Dayan
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Lucy Railton

Blue Veil

For her first album playing cello alone without electronics, the Berlin-based composer-performer pushes the instrument's overtones to a fever pitch, finds Levi Dayan
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Eiko Ishibashi

Antigone

Following success scoring the films of Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, the Chiba-born composer-performer returns to the leftfield pop of her albums from the 2010s
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More Eaze & Claire Rousay

No Floor 

As the two friends and regular collaborators slide into Thrill Jockey's roster, Emo and Americana get stirred into the ambient stew to heartfelt and often dreamlike effect
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David Grubbs

Whistle from Above

Ex-Squirrel Bait, Gastr Del Sol guitarist offers meticulously crafted record with a weirdness lurking underneath
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Nina Garcia

Bye Bye Bird

Wake up babe, hot new take on the electric guitar just dropped. The artist fka Mariachi channels sunken textures and zombie-eyed clatters on this solo record for Ideologic Organ
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Lawrence English

Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds

Room40 boss calls in a cavalcade of collaborators – including Jim O'Rourke, Claire Rousay, and The Necks' Chris Abrahams – for a remarkably cohesive meditation on site and space
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Fennesz

Mosaic

The Austrian guitarist-composer stays firmly within his comfort zone, but despite a deluge of contemporary processed guitar ambient albums, there's still nobody does it quite like him, finds Levi Dayan
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The Necks

Bleed

After thirty-five years the Australian improvising trio are still pushing forward into strange new territories, finds Levi Dayan
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Mark Templeton

Two Verses

The Edmonton-born electronic music artist may be sampling muzak, but he’s certainly not making muzak, finds Levi Dayan
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Wendy Eisenberg

Viewfinder

Guitarist from Bill Orcutt's quartet anchors a set of late night jams inspired by the experience of laser eye surgery
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Pat Thomas

The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir

The improvising pianist invents his own tradition with aplomb
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KMRU

Natur

Nature and technology collide and combine on an album of electromagnetic waves and twittering birdsong
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Eiko Ishibashi

Evil Does Not Exist

The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself

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