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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Billed as an 'illogical period piece' after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his own canon as much as the bricolage of seventies prog or early-nineties slacker rock, from the syrupy chopped and screwed eighties samples of Eccojams, which set the...

This week the shrouded South London producer Burial unspools a midwinter marvel in the form of the Antidawn extended play, where film samples and organ vamps sound out like the passing spectres of a church choir amid the vaporous slug of his washed-out cityscape. The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith realises an Ankhrasmation score alongside the guitarists Alex Varty and Henry...