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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

DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us review – party-starting nostalgist is as playful as ever

Appealingly rough around the edges, the Hamburg DJ’s fourth album voyages from a Damon Albarn amapiano track to harsh 90s drum’n’bass

FKA twigs review – an eye-popping extravaganza of dancing and demons

The ever out-there British artist tours her latest album, Eusexua, with a show whose mix of club vibe, winged beast props and prime back catalogue delights and confounds

Bdrmm: Microtonic review – Hull shoegazers nod towards the dancefloor

The quartet’s increasingly electronica-based textures convey a sense of tension and unease on their third album

Maribou State review – UK duo turn darkness into light after existential crisis

With Chris Davids recovered from a brain condition, the electronic act’s first tour in years is full of committed, emotionally resonant performances

FKA twigs: Eusexua review – a hymn to the healing power of the dancefloor

Coining a word to describe a particular state of euphoria, twigs effortlessly juggles left-field digitals and club pop tunes on album No 3

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

Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fans

Bubble Love: Bubble Love review – Ross From Friends’ high-energy pop-club side project

Producer Felix Weatherall adopts another guise, swapping lo-fi analogue for a disorienting burst of alternative dance music

Poppy: Negative Spaces review – screams and sweetness as metalcore meets loungecore

On her sixth album, the multi-genre star seems to be having an identity crisis – but amid the industrial guitars and synthpop, she clearly trusts her own instincts

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