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Alabama 3 review – raucous ravers soak up mashup outlaws’ sin and soul

This was a rambunctious wake for founding member Jake Black – with their Sopranos’ theme a high point among club and country meldings

St Vincent/Nina Kraviz: Masseduction Rewired review – fragmented yet magnetic

Russian producer Kraviz moves St Vincent’s 2017 album through a variety of gloomy musical lenses, from footwork to dub

Daniel Lopatin: Uncut Gems Original Soundtrack review – vital, nerve-jangling score is a jewel

Lopatin, AKA Oneohtrix Point Never, has created a soundtrack for the Safdie brothers’ latest that brings its whole roiling humanity brilliantly to life

Grimes review – a suitably surreal invasion of the Miami Art Basel

The artist appeared among Florida’s monied art fiends with a pristine alternate-reality trip – and a gloriously flawed DJ set

Burial: Tunes 2011-2019 review – transmissions from an alternate universe

The producer’s collected post-Untrue EPs reveal him as one of the most evocative voices in British music

Hannah Diamond: Reflections review – gloriously overwrought

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Doon Kanda: Labyrinth review – welcome to the haunted fun fair

The designer and musician makes his mark using synthetic-sounding instruments to produce his spooky electronics

Omar Souleyman: Shlon review – the dabke-techno king is passionate as ever

The Syrian musician has released 500 records and now lives in exile in Turkey, but this short, sharp record shows an undimmed spirit

Chemical Brothers review – a glorious, meaningless sensory overload

Against huge projections of robots, disco balls and angels, the band deliver a rousing set that even makes the players themselves punch the air

Hannah Diamond: Reflections review – trance-pop rescued from good taste

On these melancholy bangers, the PC Music singer uses nursery rhyme-like melodies and a girlish sing-song delivery to essay the pain of being lovelorn and vulnerable

Björk review – a spectacular vision of Utopia

Writhing alien life forms engulf a set so elaborate it reduces the audience at the singer’s Cornucopia arena show to hushed awe. But her voice rings out clear

Arthur Russell: Iowa Dream review – lopsided, funky and staggeringly beautiful

This collection of unreleased tracks from the electronic pioneer is a treasure trove of Russell’s guileless, always melodic songs

Shanti Celeste: Tangerine review – club music with subtlety and depth

The Bristolian DJ and producer’s nuanced debut is an enveloping listen, folding softer textures into its 2am beats

Moor Mother: Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes review – raging protest poetry

The activist and musician overlays stunning sound collages with furious verses laying bare the lie of post-racial America

Beverly Glenn-Copeland review – a trance state of love, nature and spirituality

Now 75, the ambient composer is on his first world tour, playing spectral music that carries the audience to a higher plane

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