Kieran Hebden and William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s review – Four Tet fries his formative country influences

Lyle Lovett meets brain-scouring distortion on the electronic musician’s surprisingly un-nostalgic collaboration with former Lambchop guitarist Tyler

Sacred Lodge: Ambam review – heady, hypnotic beats inspired by the hollers of Equatorial Guinea

Matthieu Ruben N’Dongo amps up the intensity on a second album that makes an uncanny atmosphere out of swarming electronics, grisly vocals and polyrhythmic percussion

End of the Road review – from industrial rackets to pristine folk, festivals don’t get more varied or vital

Full of warmth despite the rain, highs include Mexico City experimentalists Titanic and Vermont songwriter Lily Seabird’s gorgeously open-hearted voice

Autumns: Basic Face review – sinister vocals, metallic sounds and mutant cowbells

With its beefy rhythms and intense, unrelenting tracks, the prolific Irish producer follows the classic EBM formula to sweaty effect

For Those I Love: Carving the Stone review – bracing anger at Irish social stasis

The raw grief of David Balfe’s first album may have faded to a bruise, but his spoken-word fury is as strong as ever in these hyper-focused stories of poverty and exploitation

Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer review – a surprisingly moving tribute to 2010s EDM

The Australian producer’s debut album pays homage to the blustering, bombastic genre of her adolescence. The BPM soars and so do the feelings

AraabMuzik: Electronic Dream 2 review – the return of a maximalist MPC wizard

This sequel retains the original’s generation-defining mix of dread and debauchery, although it is overshadowed by recent bolder versions of the sound

DJ K: Radio Libertadora! review – explosive, cacophonous baile funk witchcraft

Kaique Vieira’s latest ‘bruxaria’ album is even bolder and louder than his 2023 debut, as he brings revolutionary spirit to the funk sound of São Paolo

Daytimers: Alterations review – Bollywood classics remixed for today’s dancefloors

The UK collective have been reimagining south Asian music since 2020, and their new compilation splices junglism and Afro-house onto gems in Sony India’s catalogue

Lorde: Virgin review – chaos, carnality and compulsions meet cataclysmic choruses

After her last album embraced switching off, the musician returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst with a strikingly unsettled sound

Dâdalus & Bikarus: Off the Shelf review – energetic, near-erotic tracks build to a whirlwind of sound

Zurich-based musicians Benedikt Merz and David Hänni meld krautrock, punk and big beat into tripped-out, swampy grooves that reach dizzying heights

Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal review – slime-toting composer’s dazzling and difficult devotional music

Inspired by the intricate webs of creeping slime mould, Pramuk’s fascinating ideas can get lost in a primordial soup of genres and textures

Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film review – after 15 years, the retro-futurists make a radiant return

Motorik grooves, Marxist critique and vintage synths – in their first album since 2010, Laetitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever

Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies review – lad laureate meets euphoric synths

Kevin Lee Kharas’s muttered musings about love and life are given a sumptuous electronic backdrop by producer Patrick King

Sherelle: With a Vengeance review – UK dance debut is dizzyingly doof-doof-doof

The Londoner has alighted on a sophisticated, high-tempo hybrid of footwork and jungle – and seems to suggest a better way of living