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Stewart Gardiner’s recent Sunday afternoon session of outsider sounds, Balearic beats and weirdo anthems at Rough Trade’s Bristol outpost
The reblooming Keiron Phelan accounts for the emotional and melodic synthesis behind the third album in his scholarly pop craftsman guise
A summoning of new things from Polypores, Rupert Lally, Mark Peters, Concretism, Ogle and other creative souls
Fertile sonic fare ploughed-up from the creative fields of Aircooled, Pulselovers, Transient Visitor, Pye Corner Audio and others
Paul Hanford’s study of Berlin as a club culture capital profiles DJs, music makers and subcultures via history, politics and psychogeography
Glasgow based producer Isa Gordon sculpts sound and beats into distinct universes on her mind bending debut LP for Optimo Music
Mr Bongo bring the heat with this 12″ reissue of serious late night Balearic business from 1980s South African fusion group Stimela
Glasgow new wave of avant-garde artist CLAIR builds on the promise of her debut album with a submersive and ecstatic digital single
Another mound of new and excavated artefacts from The Hardy Tree, Sam Prekop & John McEntire, Michael Tanner, Marine Research and others
Ambient Babestation Meltdown & JBS repurpose material from SF paperbacks and VHS cassettes as ambient-not-ambient and EBM for Optimo Music
A sonically adventurous compilation of underground sounds from 1980s Japan curated by Optimo’s JD Twitch on his Cease & Desist imprint
Australian duo Deyell and Pike soundtrack a pulsating world on the verge of eco-collapse with their new album Isola
A bitesize round-up of releases – featuring Three Three Fives, Hawksmoor and Deliquescent Crystals – offers up some distinctive flavours
New consignments from The Dream Syndicate, Field Lines Cartographer, Xam Duo, Gabe Knox, Soft Estate and more undergo inspection
A round-up of wild vital sounds, featuring Mr Bongo, Brian Jackson, International Anthem, Analog Africa, Ben Marc, The Trilogy Tapes and more
Handfuls of new and archival matter from The Loyal Seas, Loner Deluxe, Beneather, Polypores, Prolapse and more go under the spotlight
Returning to Bristol – with disciples bdrmm in tow – the original Oxford four proved that they can still make beautiful and timeless noise
An all-you-can-eat round-up of sonic dishes from Whin, E, 50 Foot Wave, bdrmm, Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra, Jilk, Bernard Grancher and more
Gilles Peterson tells the story of his life in radio as we celebrate his Lockdown FM book and the new STR4TA single
With Wayward, Vashti Bunyan disidentifies her story from its countercultural return-to-nature mythology, writes Alice Keeling
Cherry Red revisits the labyrinthine and idiosyncratic ten-album run of Felt once again, with freshly-reupholstered CD editions
Sara Dziri’s Close to Home for Optimo Music defies easy techno categorisation by occupying different spaces that are yet the same space
An omnivorous accumulation of aural fodder from Ellis Island Sound, Freakons, Listening Center, K of ARC, Suicide, The Lemonheads and more
Raw Poetic’s Laminated Skies is a future-tilting conscious rap record where the rhymes flow fast and the beats don’t stand still
Scandinavian jazz bassist Petter Eldh’s Koma Sax ensemble commit an act of magic with a miraculous stew of future jazz avant-garde beats
A selection of invigorating and inventive wares from Andy Bell, Modern Studies and Stealing Sheep & The Radiophonic Workshop
A patchwork quilt of sounds from Busy Microbes, Mitra Mitra, Listening Center, The Central Office of Information, Keith Seatman and more