Mdou Moctar - Afrique VictimeMatador Records release Afrique Victime, the long awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. With Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky, boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and rock music by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full blast noise and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, womens rights, inequality and Western Africas exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. The music

depressed guy

• Includes printed inners

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Familiar territory

For fierce frontwoman and album protagonist Izzy B

(Live In Paris 19)

Our Love is formed around a mixture of digital pop production

Limited Indie edition pressed on double white vinyl

Sunny Inside (demo)

Recorded in Stinson Beach

mercurial tonalities and charged

spacious even as it fills to its brim