This week in tunes: new albums from old heads Iggy Pop, Belle and Sebastian and Moby. Also: 24 hour party people, long Covid, menu screen music, tuberculosis vectors, encouraging throwbacks, hurt in the garage, twee as a service, hop country, getting deplatformed by St Vincent, learning with Wikipedia, why is Slowthai, ratbag 70s throwback stuff, judging an album by its cover, some of Pitchfork’s finest work, Mogadon infinity, inauspicious starts, portents of the end days and Hank Shapiro.

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