Matthew Horton

Hawksmoor

Oneironautics

Bristol-based modular synth-twiddler dreams of motorway junctions and Tangerine Dream

Carmen Villain

Music From The Living Monument

Carmen Villain's soundtrack for a work of contemporary dance takes it slow (if not exactly gentle), finds Matthew Horton

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

Nabihah Iqbal

Dreamer

The artist FKA-Throwing Shade returns on gauzy, hallucinatory form, finds Matthew Horton

Christine And The Queens

Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles

A new direction from Christine And The Queens feels tentative, but far from joyless, finds Matthew Horton

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

ioulus

oddkin

Keeping it short and sweet, ioulus's debut on Rhizome is still sufficient to satisfy Matthew Horton

Starry Messengers: The Avalanches Return With We Will Always Love You

The Avalanches set controls for the heart of fun on their new album featuring a bevy of special guests, including Sananda Maitreya, Vashti Bunyan, Blood Orange, Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu

William Basinski

Lamentations

Two decades after *Disintegration Loops* made his name, William Basinski is rummaging through his tape box again with ever lovelier results

Working Men’s Club

S/T

A quick reshuffle makes Working Men's Club a far sharper proposition, finds Matthew Horton

Jockstrap

BEAVERCORE EP

From a drawing room in autumn sunshine to Rufus Wainwright fed through a mincer, Jockstrap's latest EP proves as hard to pin down as ever, finds Matthew Horton

Jouska

EVERYTHING IS GOOD

Jouska's 'bedroom r&b' seek beauty in sadness with a suite of otherworldly pop hits, finds Matthew Horton

Phantom Posse

Forever Underground

Eric Littmann's Phantom Posse – feat. LA rapper iLoveMakonnen and Laetitia Tamko aka Vagabon – is a dreamy trip through the subterranean city, finds Mathew Horton

of Montreal

UR FUN

Kevin Barnes finds love on the sixteenth Of Montreal album, finds Matthew Horton

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir

These Systems Are Failing

Flock Of Dimes

If You See Me, Say Yes

Elias Krantz

Lifelines

Slow Club

One Day All Of This Won't Matter Any More

The Avalanches

Wildflower

The Invisible

Patience

Dexys

Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul

Back To Radio City: An Interview With Big Star

With the documentary on the seminal power pop band, Nothing Can Hurt Me, screening in cinemas in the UK, Matthew Horton joins founding member Jody Stephens and producer John Fry to reflect on the band's landmark second album

Cornershop

Urban Turban

Girls Aloud: Death Of A Pop Band?

They might not be sprouting the facial hair that's the usual sign of a pop group going down the lavvy but, asks Matthew Horton, is it all over for Girls Aloud?