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Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades review – Rotherham producer meets Ugandan folk fiddler

The presence of James’ bow complements Treanor’s dense compositions, creating the latter’s most melodic and dancefloor-adjacent work to date

Mount Westmore: Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort review – harmless nostalgia and charmless bluster

The west coast rap supergroup’s album works reasonably well at times, but there are more misses than hits

Lea Bertucci: Xtended Vox review – shimmering soundscapes with added growling dog

It might sound a bit Vic Reeves, but go past the giggles and the experimental vocalists and this compilation touches profundity in fascinating ways

Leftfield: This is What We Do review – mighty, all-embracing workouts and more

Born out of a tumultuous time in Neil Barnes’s life, this heady mix of bangers and righteous sounds is a keeper

Honey Dijon: Black Girl Magic review – tight, anthemic celebration of Black queer identity

The house legend and Beyoncé collaborator is back with 15 celebratory hits that span styles and explode with personality

Sault: Aiir, Earth, Today & Tomorrow, Untitled (God), 11 review – an act of supreme generosity

The esteemed collective release five dazzlingly eclectic albums, melding rap, post-punk and modern classical composition

Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth review – a perfectly balanced cocktail of euphoria and disquiet

Introspective and propulsive, intense and opaque: these instrumentals tie the disparate strands of the producer’s oeuvre into a coherent, compelling whole

Mode festival review – ‘elevated’ dance music brings new life to Sydney’s Cockatoo Island

The former penal colony has been the sandstone-and-steel backdrop for art shows, concerts and festivals – but nothing quite like Mode

Brian Eno: ForeverAndEverNoMore review – personal, intimate and urgent

The producer contemplates the future of the planet on these heartbreaking songs shot through with wonder

Autechre review – a bombardment of singular sounds to combat the dark

Performing in total darkness, the electronic duo improvise a show of fractal syncopated percussion and cascading chords that makes the whole auditorium thrum

Sarathy Korwar: Kalak review – deep, dark drumbeats create a mesmerising story

Flute, horns, synths and tabla accompany Korwar’s undulating percussion in the dummer’s hypnotic fourth album

The Orielles: Tableau review – cherry-picking genres to make a rich feast of musical ideas

The West Yorkshire trio flit from R&B to funk to dance to indie in their ambitious, disorienting fourth album

Jockstrap review – electro-pop duo find order in the chaos

Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery piece together a patchwork of musical genres into a beautiful tour opener

Hot Chip review – an immersive dance phenomenon

Years ahead of the disco reboot curve, the British synthpop stalwarts deliver a performance so charged they even break a drum

Hekla: Xiuxiuejar review – reclaiming the unique appeal of the theremin

The Soviet-era electronic instrument is often used as an exotic novelty, but the Icelandic musician unleashes its real potential

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