New album: Quirkily beautiful, surreal songs of displacement, love, heartbreak and bewilderment, change and feeling in limbo, by the Stockholm-based British ex-pat, Rhys Edwards, also known for the project Ulrika Spacek
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New album: Superbly crafted, innovative ‘art-pop for the anthropocene’ by the innovative British artist, with landscaped sounds in a whirlpool of clever invention, narratives threading through an existential lifespan of gorgeous turns through this follow-up to 2021’s Great Spans of Muddy Time
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Album review: Inspired by the work of Robert Wyatt, early Eno, Berlin-era Bowie and Syd Barrett, this is intriguingly experimental, challenging but at times beautiful electronica work by the artist previously known as East India Youth
Read moreNew albums: Toy, Swervedriver, Better Oblivion Community Center (Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers), DAWN, Rat Boy, Sunflower Bean, Mike Krol
From an experimental album by New Orleans artist DAWN to a collaboration between Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, as well as a return by 90s shoegazers Swervedriver, this week’s roundup has plenty of surprises
Read moreNew albums: J Mascis, Liela Moss, Muse, Part Time, Laura Jane Grace, Boygenius and various
It’s indie week in every way, including solo projects by singers from Dinosaur Jr., The Duke Spirit, and Against Me!, plus Muse doing a full-on dystopia, Part Time, and German post-punk compilation
Read moreNew albums: Thom Yorke, Julia Holter, Ty Segall, Pill, Soap&Skin, Value Void, Gypsyfingers
Otherworldly is recurring theme in this week’s releases, including Thom Yorke’s soundrack to the Suspiria remake, Julia Holter and Soap&Skin, plus pithy postpunk from Pill, and reinterpretations by Ty Segall
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