New album: Slow, ghostly, challenging, droning, uniquely experimental, this is the 80-year-old former Velvet Underground member’s first original album since 2012, now with guests including Weyes Blood, Sylvan Esso, Fat White Family and Animal Collective
Read moreAnimal Collective: Time Skiffs
New album: Two decades after their first, the 11th album by the American alt-pop experimentalists has a running theme of time passing, with a quieter, slower more lo-fi accessible approach, gentle intricate sounds, even those echoing wind, water and bamboo
Read moreNew releases: Shame, Jack White, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, Panda Bear
Anger, irony and eeriness appear across these new releases, including the young London punk band, Jack White's new single, music from the TV series Stranger Things, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Read moreNew album releases for week beginning 8 May 2017
This week's selection dips into Paul Weller's latest solo experiment, Perfume Genius, Animal Collective and Steve Wickham
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