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Raime's latest record is a lesson in restraint, but the Blackest Ever Black duo's tweaked formula might be more fitting for a stage or a film score...

South Korean post-rockers Jambinai have offered up one of the albums of the year, a questing, elemental maelstrom of a record called 'Hermitage'...

Far from the horror-obsessed crust metal their name might lead you to expect, Necro Deathmort provide a soundtrack for the stranding of your mind on the absorbing 'The Capsule'...

Deerhoof deliver their typically idiosyncratic take on classic rock with 'The Magic', an album that contains exactly what it says on the tin...

Even Cristiano Ronaldo would struggle to speak ill of staggering Icelandic trio Samaris. We listen through their classy new album track-by-track...

Faroe Islands' ORKA have always used homemade instruments, but that invention has never been realised so fully and fearsomely as on 'Vað'...

Berlin-based artist Ofrin's new album offers plenty of musical gems to mine for, from post-industrial pop nuggets to sultry trip-hop atmospherics...

Radiohead's latest album has been somewhat overshadowed by the event of its own release - and by the release of another recent album too...

We asked the biggest Beach Boys fan we know to review a new 'various artists' tribute to Pet Sounds. Good vibrations were not forthcoming...

The fetid, ferocious 'Failures' doesn't evolve over its span so much as swell and throb into existence like a fat lip. Luke O'Dwyer dunks his head in...