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TIAN QIYI’s sophomore album Songs For Workers is a rare kind of record: one that refuses … Review | Tian Qiyi – Songs For Workers [Pagoda Records]Read more

Toyah Willcox’s career has always defied easy classification, and Chameleon – The Very Best of Toyah … Review | Chameleon – The Very Best of Toyah [Cherry Red Records]Read more

With The Watchline, John Tejada unveils a striking new chapter in his decades-long career. Released on … Review | John Tejada – The Watchline [Palette Recordings]Read more

Lo Recordings continues its Skintone Edition with a reissue of Sakura, Susumu Yokota’s most cherished album. … Review | Sakura Blossoms Again: Susumu Yokota’s Ambient Classic Returns in Skintone Edition [Lo Recordings]Read more

For a group that built its reputation on outsized mythmaking, Insane Clown Posse’s The Naught—the sixth … Review | Insane Clown Posse | The Naught [Psychopathic Records]Read more

Osees don’t release records so much as dispatches from a long campaign, and Abomination Revealed at … Review | Osees | Abomination Revealed At Last [Deathgod]Read more

At Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Joe Hisaishi sets a seismograph under the century’s anxieties and invites it … Review | Joe Hisaishi Conducts Steve Reich: The Desert Music & Joe Hisaishi: The End of the World [Deutsche Grammphon]Read more

Some records document a moment; Forefowk, Mind Me, the third album from Glasgow-based singer Quinie (Josie … Review | Quinie | Forefowk, Mind Me [Upset The Rhythm]Read more

Zion Train’s Dubs of Perception opens like an unearthed ritual. The first sounds are raw, untuned … Review | Zion Train | Dubs of Perception [Universal Egg]Read more

A chance encounter backstage at a late-night talk show has spiraled into one of the most … Review | Idles | Run Rabbit Run [Single, Protozoa / Partisan Records]Read more