Lindstrøm: Everyone Else Is a Stranger review – minor variations on sleek space disco pleasures
This Norwegian producer returns from his period forays into the leftfield for an album that is as fizzy and enticing as ever
‘This is so creepy!’: the Taylor Swift vinyl haunted by Britain’s weirdest musicians
A bizarre pressing error has resulted in some vinyl copies of Swift’s latest re-recorded album carrying maverick UK electronica, leaving fans bewildered
‘I don’t believe in the idea of a future’: the Ukrainian producer who invented dungeon rap
Musician Alex Yatsun’s house was shelled by Russian forces, but he has focused the trauma and apocalyptic feeling into atmospheric tracks that help him get ‘out of reality’
Peter Brötzmann obituary
German saxophonist who was a pioneering figure in the world of European free jazz
Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – piercing heartache
Recorded at speed, Anohni’s first album since 2016 adds a soulful swagger to poetic, cathartic rock
‘Our government sees it as cute but unimportant’: the musicians keeping France’s Occitan language alive
Post-revolutionary France tried to stamp it out, but working class communities kept speaking it. Now Occitan powers a vivacious and political European music scene
Japanese Breakfast review – a two-way high-wire act
Korean-American songwriter – and bestselling author – Michelle Zauner revels in an expansive set of dreampop and electronica laced with heartbreak and joy
‘It’s like tapping into the animating energy of the universe’ – Guardian readers’ best albums of 2023 so far
From melancholy pop to jubilant rap, potent African pop and accessible jazz, Guardian readers worldwide pick out the new music that has most impressed them so far this year
Ragga-metal, Y2K R&B and folk legends: 30 acts to see at Glastonbury
From big names including Arctic Monkeys and Kelis to must-see cult acts such as Yaya Bey and Vigro Deep, our music editors pick out the essential sets
Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book review – infectious futurist jazz
Spanning synthpop to electronic R&B, the singer and bassist’s expansive Blue Note debut is a genre-hopping class act, with guests to match
‘We made horse semen into little shakers’: the quest for music’s most extreme sounds
From cannabis plants to screaming peacocks, swallowed microphones to babies in utero, musicians are rejecting regular instruments and software-derived sound
Parklife festival review – northern rave culture clearly in rude health
The in-demand Fred Again eclipses Aitch’s confident homecoming headline set, while the Prodigy chime with Parklife’s rave ethos
‘Work is therapy’: synth-pop icon Johnny Jewel on David Lynch, Chromatics and near-death experiences
He was kidnapped as a teenager and later nearly drowned, but these traumas have been poured into an awesomely rich body of music for film, TV and the dancefloor
Christine and the Queens: Paranoïa, Angels, True Love review – a grief-stricken masterpiece
A howl of despair sublimated into beautiful experimental pop, the artist’s fourth album is his best yet
The best albums of 2023 so far
From the unique sonic world of Yaeji to the dark folk music of Lankum, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year