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Enter Shikari review – sensory overload by a British band hitting the big leagues

Twenty years into their career and on their first arena tour, Enter Shikari push the massive sound system to the limit with gleeful and vibrant cross-genre rock

Kali Malone: All Life Long review – music to blot out the world’s clamour

Returning to the organ-playing that made her name and adding brass and vocals, the Thom Yorke-approved composer revels in the possibilities of her instruments

Future Islands: People Who Aren’t There Anymore review – back to melancholy banger mode

Some perfectly constructed pop offsets dark musings on a record elevated by Samuel T Herring’s ever richer vocals

Love Minus Zero: L’Ecstasy review – Tiga and Hudson Mohawke unite on a high

The Canadian and Scottish producers’ on-off partnership comes to fruition on this aptly titled, category-defying clubland set

Harp: Albion review – former Midlake frontman traipses through twilight

Tim Smith’s first album with Kathi Zung takes inspiration from William Blake and the Cure to create a landscape of 80s reverb and ghostly vocals

Vince Clarke: Songs of Silence review – Covid anxiety fills synthpop star’s debut solo album

Stuck in his studio during lockdown, Clarke recorded this portentous album of wordless, minimalist intrumentals – a soundtrack of dread

Celia Hollander: 2nd Draft review – turns a piano into a new sound world

Hollander’s works sound simple but are incredibly detailed and multi-layered, her treated piano solos evoking wind, rain and air

Flying Lotus review – electronic music legend flexes his jawdropping skills

Despite being a heavily garlanded and in-demand collaborator, composer, label owner and soon to be sci-fi director, the musician seems happiest simply making people dance

Sofia Kourtesis: Madres review – a hymn to dance music’s healing powers

Dedicated to her parents, the Berlin-based Peruvian’s joyous debut album is a masterclass in emotive electronic production

The Chemical Brothers review – mesmerising barrage of thunder and lighting

Sound is turned into spectacle in a theatrical two-hour performance mixing bold visuals and rapturous tunes into meticulously choreographed awe

Overmono review – sparkling shards of rave culture tear up the dancefloor

The Russell brothers bring the party to a damp weeknight, using ecstatic production and crowd-pleasing samples to inspire mass dancing even from those seated

Lost Girls: Selvutsletter review – flashes of brilliance from Jenny Hval

The Norwegian musician’s second album with guitarist-husband Håvard Volden is a digressive affair illuminated by some glorious moments

Sampha: Lahai review – how to make an existential crisis sound sublime

Six years after the Mercury prize-winning Process, Sampha Sisay’s follow-up is jittery with anxiety and indecision, yet poised and luscious

Oneohtrix Point Never: Again review – producer teams with AI to take pop to the outer limits

Daniel Lopatin now adds post-rock, prog and artificial intelligence to his melting pot of avant garde electronics

DJ Znobia: Inventor Vol 1 review – raw minimalist kuduro to shake the dancefloor

The Angolan producer arrived at his own version of the dance style kuduro after adding layered synths to folk rhythms, and these tracks show his lo-fi ingenuity

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