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Four Tet review – Kieran Hebden’s spiritual techno lights up the room

In collaboration with lighting artists Squidsoup, Hebden has found a way to make his wistful dance music seem thrillingly tangible

Overmono: Good Lies review – certified bangers galore

The Russell brothers mix weapons-grade nostalgia with two-step, trap and sped-up vocals in a set full of emotional ambushes

Overmono: Good Lies review – UK rave history is distilled to perfection

Knitting garage with techno and chopped-up vocals, the pounding yet poppy debut album from Monmouth brothers Ed and Tom Russell is masterfully done

Fred again.. and Brian Eno: Secret Life review – dull ambient set reveals both men’s weaknesses

While their signature sonic flotsam and spartan melodies are present, Eno’s contributions prove witlessly unimaginative while his mentee’s are trite

Adjunct Ensemble: Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy review – a disorientating act of resistance

Free jazz, opera, hymns and newscasts intermingle in an oddly compelling sonic collage addressing issues of asylum and migration

Nabihah Iqbal: Dreamer review – between dream pop and the dancefloor

Her studio equipment stolen, the London musician began with a more acoustic sound on this second album – but pure electronics are still her strong suit

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha review – South African singer in his own lane

The singer-songwriter elevates his reimagining of Xhosa folk music with synth-pop hooks and his melismatic voice

Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – still staking out pop’s frontier after 40 years

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have absorbed the revolutions in dance and electronic music since their previous album in 1999, and shaped them into melancholic, finely detailed stories

Yaeji: With a Hammer review – pop-facing rage and candour

The Korean-American singer-DJ examines complex questions of heritage on a debut album proper that expands her beatscape to include moments of grace

Tim Hecker: No Highs review – ambient music that reflects our polluted world

Full of alarms, arrhythmic pulses and deep bass, Hecker’s eerie work feels as if it’s bracing for cataclysm – but is nevertheless rich, warm and inviting

Katie Gately: Fawn/Brute review – beguilingly disordered pop

A third album whips up a maelstrom of dislocated voices and junkyard-style percussion as the US musician plots a trajectory from her daughter’s imagined childhood to adolescence

Depeche Mode: Memento Mori review – a life-affirming farewell for Fletch

Andy Fletcher’s two surviving bandmates reflect on mortality on an album of warm, weird electro-pop

100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs review – derangedly catchy hyperpop

The US pop-punk duo go for the mainstream jugular with nagging melodies and killer hooks

Fever Ray: Radical Romantics review – Karin Dreijer returns sunny side up

Wittily exploring desire and relationships, the identity-surfing Swedish star sounds revitalised on their first solo album in six years

Yazmin Lacey: Voice Notes review – songs to love and savour

The Nottingham-based artist’s debut album delivers a seamless mix of jazz, soul and electronica

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