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This is our final issue of 2021 and we've picked out the best releases of the last 12 months for your delectation. Our cover star is LoneLady, who has two records in our Top Five Albums Of The Year, while inside the magazine we also talk to Chris Carter, Nightmares On Wax, Mira Calix, Kevin Richard Martin, Jon Hopkins, Tom Middleton, Coldcut, Youth, Ian Boddy and more.    

We're bundling this month's issue with 'THE BEST OF 2021', a double CD featuring no less than 24 tracks from some of our favourite albums of the year. Wall-to-wall with familiar names and new artists alike, it all adds up to more than two hours of amazing music – and you really don't want to miss a single minute of it. Here’s the full list of tracks on the two CDs:

CD 1

LONELADY – ‘There Is No Logic’ (from ‘Former Things’, Warp)

OSS – ‘Wow Picasso’ (from ‘Enter The Kettle’, Orbscure)

WILL SERGEANT – ‘Scene V’ (from ‘Themes For Grind’, Polytechnic Youth)

ISVISIBLE/ISINVISIBLE – ‘Into The Hills’ (from ‘Moon-White Water’, Burning Witches)

JOHN GRANT – ‘Best In Me’ (from ‘Boy From Michigan’, Bella Union)

ED DOWIE – ‘Number Eight Wire’ (from ‘The Obvious I’, Needle Mythology)

KIT GRILL – ‘Another Time’ (from ‘Fragile’, Primary Colours)

DJ FOOD – ‘Zoom Zoom’ (from ‘Kaleidoscope Companion’, Ninja Tune)

CAMPBELL / MALLINDER / BENGE – ‘Camouflage’ (from ‘Clinker’, Les Disques Du Crepuscule)

CASPER CLAUSEN – ‘Used To Think’ (from ‘Better Way’, City Slang)

SAINT ETIENNE – ‘Pond House’ (from ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’, Heavenly)

NIGHTMARES ON WAX – ‘3D Warrior’ (from ‘Shout Out! To Freedom…’ Warp)

CD 2

KEVIN RICHARD MARTIN – ‘Opening Credits (Theme For Kris)’ (from ‘Return To Solaris’, Phantom Limb)

SQUAREPUSHER – ‘UFOs Over Leytonstone’ (from ‘Feed Me Weird Things’, Warp)

CHRIS CARTER – ‘Poptone’ (from ‘Electronic Ambient Remixes One’, Mute)

SUNROOF – ‘1.2 – 30.5.19’ (from ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Vol 1’, Mute)

HANNAH PEEL – ‘Ecovocative’ (from ‘Fir Wave’, My Own Pleasure)

HÉLÈNE VOGELSINGER – ‘Incantation’ (from ‘Tone Science Module No 5: Integers And Quotients’, DiN)

HAIKU SALUT – ‘All Watched Over By Machines’ (from ‘The Hill, The Light, The Ghost’, Secret Name)

LISA BELLA DONNA – ‘Audio-Visions’ (from ‘Moogmentum’, Behind The Sky)

IMMERSION / ULRICH SCHNAUSS – ‘Skylarks’ (from ‘Nanocluster Vol 1’, Swim~)

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – ‘Lichtspiel II: Schwarz Weiss Grau’ (from ‘Bright Magic’, PIAS)

KIT MONTEITH – ‘Far From Home’ (from ‘Audio-Cartographic Experiments Vol 1: Rise & Fall’, Concrete Tapes)

ME LOST ME – ‘Airlock’ (from ‘The Good Noise’, Tailbird)