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AHudson Mohawke: Cry Sugar
New album: A vibrantly energised otherworld, an innovative concoction of experimental electronica, trash-pop to classical, gospel, 70s soul, house and more by the prolific LA-based Glaswegian DJ and producer Ross Birchard in his fourth LP and first for seven years
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Panda Bear and Sonic Boom: Reset
New album: An ingeniously fun collaboration Animal Collective founder Noah Benjamin Lennox, English producer Peter Kember in a project that takes the intros from 1950s pop songs to create new ones with added vocals and electronica
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Fable’s debut album, Shame
Debut album: An outstanding debut of powerful, intimate songs by the English singer-songwriter Holly Cosgrove from Paignton, Devon, who, with co-writer Jonas Persson, brings an aura of innovative, tender menace with echoes of Portishead, Billie Eilish and Fiona Apple
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Jennifer Vanilla’s Castle In The Sky
New album: Wonderfully inventive, eccentric new LP of talky electronica, dance, funk, jazz and pop by gender fluid persona of Becca Kauffman, the performance artist, vocalist, and voice over artist based in New York City
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Lil Silva: Yesterday Is Heavy
Debut album: Strikingly innovative electronic and funk full debut by Bedford’s Tyrone Jermaine "TJ" Carter, who has been releasing singles and EPs for over a decade, but here includes guests including Sampha, Little Dragon, Ghetts, Serpentwithfeet, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Charlotte Day Wilson
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Working Men's Club Fear Fear
New album: Excellent second album of dark-themed retro synth and electro pop by the young band from Hebden Bridge fronted by singer-songwriter Syd Minsky-Sargeant with shades of Cabaret Voltaire, OMD and Depeche Mode
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Wu-Lu’s debut album Loggerhead
Debut album: A strikingly alternative and genre-defying release by the south London producer and multi-instrumentalist Miles Romans-Hopcraft with influences and echoes from grunge to grime, trip hop, electronica to jazz, dark 80s Factory Records era, Tricky to DJ Shadow to Slipknot
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Fyfe and Iskra Strings: Interiority
New album: This collaboration between Paul Dixon and his friend and former violin tutor James Underwood is an absorbingly experimental, clever cross-genre collection from pop, folk, indie, trip hop to dark electronica and a lick of neoclassical
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Spot the shrimp: Cave World by Viagra Boys
New album: The third and perhaps best yet album by the Swedish post-punk mischief makers fronted by the charismatic Sebastian Murphy, with a fusion of rock, punk, electronica and funk and packed with punchy, ironic, humorous lyrics, clever guitar riffs and keyboard sounds
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Moor Mother’s Jazz Codes
New album: A mesmeric new album that began as poetry book by the American artist Camae Ayewa mixing jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop and spoken word in her own form of Black Quantum Futurism group, her multi-artform fusion of black history ontology
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Gwenno’s Third album, Tresor
New album: Third LP by the Welsh artist, another almost entirely in the Cornish language, is an alluring mix of pop, ethereal psych-folk and electronica inspired by recent motherhood and the lockdown experience
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Stealing Sheep: Wow Machine
New album: The Liverpool trio of Emily Lansley, Rebecca Hawley, Luciana Mercer’s wonderfully experimental 10-song album springs from a specially commissioned project with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, taking inspiration from the female pioneers of electronic music
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Hercules & Love Affair: In Amber
New album: Andy Butler and friends return with a dark, powerful new LP that in comparison to previously is less dance music, more contemplation of serious issues, featuring again the distinctive countertenor of Anohni, but also percussion by Budgie of Siouxsie & The Banshees
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Whatever The Weather is a new project by Loraine James
New album: With the global climate increasingly unstable, this release by the London electronica artist and producer, originally out in April feels apposite, each piece title a different temperature, freezing, thawing, and heating, colouring moods and states with intricate synths and vocal improvisations
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Sea Souls (live) by Anna Phoebe and friends
New album: Celebrating and inspired by the beauty and sounds of the ocean, the Kent-based violinist and multi-genre composer, reworks this beautiful, revitalised version of last year’s lockdown-created original album, now given new evolved life by an expanded group of instrumentalists and vocalists
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Forgiveness’s debut album
New album: A mesmeric, magical and strangely beautiful debut fusing electronica, acoustic, jazz, and ambient in these instrumentals that conjure bucolic landscapes, twittering flutey birds and the natural world by Jack Wyllie of Portico Quartet, JQ and Richard Pike
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Moonchild Sanelly
New album: Stylish, charismatic, sexy, with a unique mix of South African dance music – gqom, amapiano, hip-hop, jazz and electronica, with a persona somewhere between Eartha Kitt, Nicki Minaj or Doja Cat, the starry, blue-haired Port Elizabeth-born rapper, model and designer’s fabulous second and double LP is all about ‘baddies’ and personal empowerment
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Sinead O Brien: Time Bend and Break The Bower
Debut album: After a string of singles such as Limbo and A Thing You Call Joy, the Irish indie poet’s debut album emboldens her style of strikingly esoteric lines and images backed a mix of guitar, drums and electronica, with a distinctively lingering talking/semi-sung delivery
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HAAi’s first full debut LP
New album: After a series of acclaimed mixes and other releases, the London-based Australian electronica-techno artist Teneil Throssell’s full debut album is restlessly inventive, oddly alluring, hypnotic adventure tapping into the ecstasy of slow-build and joy in repetition
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Gentle Sinners: These Actions Cannot Be Undone
New album: An intriguing, innovative new collaborative project by James Graham of The Twilight Sad and Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap culminates in this mysterious, genre-defying, experimental album of oddly poetic numbers
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