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Experimental music

January 2025

  • Alexis Petridis

    Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

    Alexis Petridis
  • The lilac time … Davis Galvin.

    Experimental album of the month
    Davis Galvin: Prism review – shape-shifting soundscapes for the horticulturally minded

  • A trombonist, a man banging a huge gong and a saxophonist

    Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners/Ensemble Klang review – anarchic energy

  • Effervescent … from left: Titi Bakorta and Ale Hop.

    Global album of the month
    Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko review – Congolese soukous gets a maximalist makeover

  • Ethel Cain: Perverts review – a gothic follow-up determined to stay underground

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Ethel Cain: Perverts review – pink noise and punishment as cult star heads underground

December 2024

  • Viktor L Crux and Silvia Konstance of Dame Area.

    New music for 2025
    Barcelona electro-punk duo Dame Area: ‘Seeing other women playing weird stuff made me want to try’

  • Clarissa Connelly

    New music for 2025
    ‘There is magic in the world. There’s something bigger’: the ecstatic visions of musician Clarissa Connelly

  • Explosive … from left: Pataka Boys, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou, Mk.gee.

    Best music of 2024
    Desi rap, deep jungle and truck-stop concrète: five-star albums you may have missed this year

  • Fundamentally honest … Charli xcx

    Best music of 2024
    The 50 best albums of 2024: No 1 – Charli xcx: Brat (and Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat)

  • Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty

  • Best music of 2024
    The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024

  • ‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM

  • Best music of 2024
    The 10 best folk albums of 2024

  • London Contemporary Music festival review – anarchic and provocative, sublime and ridiculous

  • Best music of 2024
    The 10 best global albums of 2024

  • Contemporary album of the month
    Leya: I Forget Everything review – sinister soundworlds from maverick avant gardists

  • Best music of 2024
    The 20 best songs of 2024

November 2024

  • Pat Thomas.

    Jungle, funk and 14th-century Arabic astronomers: piano virtuoso Pat Thomas on his journey through jazz

  • ‘The king of nothing matters’ … Benjamin Reichwald, AKA Bladee.

    ‘I was really not OK’: Bladee on PTSD, Charli xcx and being struck by lightning

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