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Boards of Canada channel Dante on 'Inferno', but seem even more lost

Ibi Keita |

Admittedly, my journey into the strange world of IDM, electronica and ambient music has not been a complex one.

'Down On Earth' struggles to compare to Turnover’s peak

Ellie Roberts |

For the majority of Turnover fans, listening to Down On Earth for the first time will be a rollercoaster. The highs are moments that resemble their 2015 touchstone dream pop emo phenomenon Peripheral Vision in any way at all, and the lows are every time it veers from that in a strange, confusing, incohesive way.

Willie Nelson rides high on 'Dream Chaser'

Tim Cumming
This may be Willie Nelson’s 79th solo studio album, and his 156th in all, but despite such prodigious and prolific writing, the Red Headed Stranger…

Helen Sung's 'Oracles' - a joyous big band celebration

Sebastian Scotney
“I tell people this is my first and last big band album,” says Helen Sung about Oracles. The Houston-born pianist received a Guggenheim Fellowship in…

'388' is a surprise record in more ways than one from The Coral

Joe Muggs
There must have been something in the ether. Only last month, not knowing that they had a surprise album about to drop, I namechecked “groovy Wirral…

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Long awaited third album 'Co.War.Dice' from Marmozets is varied and energetic

Tom Carr
Long awaited return from Yorkshire rockers Marmozets is energetic with a renewed flair

Blu-ray: Danger: Diabolik

graham.rickson
Influential and colourful Italian comic book adaptation returns in a gleaming new print

English singer Maisie Peters' latest, 'Florescence', is musically tepid but lyrically sharp as a tack

Thomas H. Green
A set which wittily lacerates old loves and celebrates new confidence

Drake serves up 'Iceman', plus two surprise albums, 'Maid of Honour' and 'Habibti'

Thomas H. Green
One of the world's most successful pop stars reappears with more unhelpful dross

Tamikrest’s ‘Assikel’ is a woozy call to resistance

Guy Oddy
Calming and atmospheric desert blues is defiant in the face of oppression

On 'So Happy Today', Jeff Parker embodies Chicago deep in conversation with itself

Joe Muggs
Two live, unhurried, and quietly revelatory 20-minute explorations

The All-American Rejects return to roots with 'Sandbox'

Ellie Roberts
What starting again after 14 years looks like

Blu-ray: Long Live the Republic!

graham.rickson
Magnificent Czech coming-of-age epic, set in the dying days of World War Two

Well-honed gems in Teddy Thompson's latest collection 'Never Be The Same'

Mark Kidel
Echoes of the Fab Four in songs of love and loss

Black metal originators Venom storm ‘Into Oblivion’

Guy Oddy
Cronos and his crew are as gloriously heavy, evil and catchy as ever

Anastasia Kristensen taps into a sweaty continuum on 'Bestiarium Sombre'

Joe Muggs
A long history of bleeps, clonks and funkiness is channelled into this Danish techno

Post-hardcore rockers Basement are more optimistic with 'WIRED'

Tom Carr
Fifth album from Basement is more fleet-footed and breezy, but still rocking and hefty.

'Wild at Heart' finds Neil Diamond at peace with himself and back in the studio

Liz Thomson
The Rick Rubin trilogy reaches completion

Blu-ray: Red Beard

johncarvill
Top-tier Kurosawa melds visual beauty with moral clarity

American Football replace raw with rehearsed on 'LP4'

Ibi Keita
Not quite the team they were in college

London outfit David Cronenberg's Wife continue their compelling journey into abjection and loss on 'Department of Biology'

Thomas H. Green
Fifth album by queasy indie-folk sorts finds poetry in dark corners

Melanie C surprises again with 'Sweat'

Kathryn Reilly
The most palatable Spice invites us all to dance with joy

Kacey Musgraves knocks it out of the trailer park with 'Middle of Nowhere'

Tim Cumming
A post break-up album, packed with real life, real good times, and real hurt

Singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop’s ‘Long Wave Home’ takes an aural road trip through a distinctive psyche

Kieron Tyler
Salvation Army band dynamics, a country music lilt and more

Kneecap kick the doors down again with ‘Fenian’

Guy Oddy
Belfast hip-hoppers explicitly refuse to tone things down

NCT WISH deliver polystylistic pop perfection with ‘Ode to Love’

peter.quinn
This debut album is a genre-hopping feast for the ears

A 'Long, Long Road' has led Ringo Starr back to his roots

Joe Muggs
At 85, Ringo has found a voice a world away from his cartoon persona

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's 'The Trouble with the Shovell' is heavy, very heavy

Kieron Tyler
Grot-permeated hard rock with a debt to the early Seventies

Foo Fighters put on a carefree, playful tone with 'Your Favorite Toy'

Tom Carr
Energetic and carefree, but ultimately it flatters to deceive

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