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Back on the trail with their duffle bags and nets like a gang of nocturnal lepidopterists, the trio of Oren Ambarchi on guitar, Johan Berthling on bass and Andreas Werliin on drums pick up pretty much where their first Ghosted album left off, replacing its kosmische chug and post-rock fabrics with something a little more spectral. Switching out the...

This week Lotic marks her impending debut on Houndstooth with squelching beats and limpid siren calls, hollowing out the heart of the club. On the single 'Come Unto Me', the Berlin-based producer explores the permeability of bloodlines and conjures subterranean worlds while tackling the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. The Copenhagen composer and violist Astrid Sonne constructs a...

From the sacred to the mundane, field recordings take centre stage this week. Against backdrops of rustling nature or sweet domesticity, Claire Rousay and More Eaze linger lightly over autotuned vocals and diaphanous guitar, while the Glasgow artist and Hot Gem honcho Clair uses found sounds, keys, and chimes to ring out an impish sort of minimalism. Like the lapping...