Marina: Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land review – ambitious manifesto pop
(Atlantic)The Welsh singer brings an operatic seductiveness to her ballads against misogyny
Ones to watch: Hyyts
The new EP from the Glaswegian electropop duo beguilingly documents a doomed relationship in reverse
Sophia Kennedy: Monsters review – showtunes and sub-bass from sonic shapeshifter
Unable to categorise the Baltimore-born, Hamburg-bred artist, you are thrown into her disarming, disorientating but oddly relaxing emotional world
Leon Vynehall: Rare, Forever review – warped, intense, cerebral
The DJ-producer’s introspective, genre-defying second album rewards engaged listening
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, LSO: Promises review – extraordinary
Five years in the making, this breathtaking album transcends the genres each of its three collaborators bring to the table
Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England review – nightmarish sounds from Albion’s dark jester
A dramatic reworking of Gazelle Twin’s techno-folk Pastoral album with the NYX choir adds layers of hair-raising chills
Bicep: Live Global Stream II review – 90 minutes of pure throwback pleasure
The duo transmit a steady stream of rapturous, 21st-century rave nostalgia and retina-burning visuals into living rooms around the world
Guedra Guedra: Vexillology review – splicing Moroccan culture with sub-bass
Abdellah M Hassak integrates the rhythms of north African folk music with a bassline-heavy electronic pulse
Jane Weaver: Flock review – triumphantly twisting pop music to her own ends
Having earned a cult audience for her psychedelia, Weaver makes her version of a pop record, where Kylie-level hooks are set against hallucinatory backings
Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux review – the very definition of niche
Travel the world as Benjamin John Power mines a decade’s worth of field recordings on his gratifyingly singular fifth album
Sal Dulu: Xompulse review – boom-bap dreamscapes
Jazz, ambient and soul harmonise in the Dublin-based producer’s gently daze-inducing debut
Pauline Anna Strom: Angel Tears in Sunlight review – synth iconoclast’s glorious final album
Strom’s first album in 30 years – and last, following her death in December – is a quiet riot of digitally manipulated drones and noise
Steven Wilson: The Future Bites review – prog-popper probes the future
The former Porcupine Tree frontman moves further from his rock past as he packages up digital-age musings into bite-size pop
Madlib: Sound Ancestors review – hip-hop visionary tells wondrous stories in sound
Arranged by Four Tet, the producer’s stunning album is poignant and sincere, combining beats, jazz, reggae toasts and vocal snippets into a kind of folklore
Bicep: Isles review – dance duo create the ultimate living-room rave
The Northern Irish producers kick over the dinner-party table with an album that matches the scope and ambition of 90s dance artists