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Disclosure: Energy review – accidental elegies for empty dancefloors

With nightclubs closed during coronavirus, the third album from the British pop-house duo has an unwittingly mournful quality

Duma: Duma review – extreme Kenyan metalheads bring doom to the dancefloor

From Nairobi’s metal scene, Martin Kanja and Sam Karugu add techno to doom-laden guitars and distorted vocals on this exciting album

Jessy Lanza: All the Time review – witching-hour jams

The Canadian producer takes a wicked turn in her deliciously offbeat third album

Jessy Lanza: All the Time review – a bright star in pop’s outer galaxies

Lanza’s enticing jumble of electronic experimentalism and R&B moves closer to the mainstream on her third album – you sense Janet Jackson would approve

Denai Moore: Modern Dread review – hypnotic, surrealist bid for freedom

Moore’s genre-blending electronic pop is an unsettling exploration of isolation and selfhood in an over-connected age

Arca: KiCk i review – joyful sonic vision of what pop could be

Alejandra Ghersi’s new set is a subversive and mischievous fusion of aural fireworks and psychedelic lyricism aided by Björk, Shygirl, Rosalía and Sophie

Kevin Figes Quartet: Changing Times review – constantly fascinating

The multi-instrumentalist’s latest quartet recording is a mind-expanding feast for the ears

Lady Gaga: Chromatica review – Gaga rediscovers the riot on her most personal album

Returning to the sound of her maximalist electro-pop heyday, Gaga explores buried trauma, mental illness and the complexities of fame on this return to form

Nídia: Não Fales Nela Que a Mentes review – intimate introspection from Lisbon producer

(Príncipe)Nídia shines in her new, more meditative album, showcasing a breadth of dance genres with a keen eye for emotion and turmoil

Moby: All Visible Objects review – misjudged and out of touch

Seeming to prefer penning candid memoirs to exploring new musical material, Moby’s 17th album has vitality but no novelty

Pole: 123 review – calming, abstract, minimal genius

This reissue of Stefan Betke’s first three albums shows how the electronic auteur turned a technical glitch into an innovative, intimate and warm style

Lorenzo Senni: Scacco Matto review – rave poet dials up the intensity

(Warp)The Italian producer charges the euphoria of dancefloor anticipation with punk spirit in these joyous, poignant tracks

Lea Bertucci: Acoustic Shadows review – mesmeric 4D sound

This musical piece of civil engineering was assembled from recordings made under a bridge in Cologne

DJ Python: Mas Amable review – ‘deep reggaeton’ pioneer mines lithe beats for heart and feet

(Incienso)Python’s deft, dancefloor-friendly explorations add deep-house chords and ambient susurrations to dembow, to heady effect

Minor Science: Second Language review – expectation-defying beats

Debut album cleverly morphs and melds its 90s palette without sliding into nostalgia, but there are occasional longueurs

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