"It’s a wonderful way to say goodbye, a celebration of Tony Allen doing the thing he loved and doing it as brilliantly and as unassailably as ever" - the Quietus wrote reviewing the posthumous album 'There Is No End', by the afrobeat drummer. It's Guardian's choice for their Global album of the month as it "plays as a cohesive record because of Allen’s capacity to slot into place behind seemingly any collaborator without diluting his innate sense of rhythmic style" (collaborators include Sampa the Great, Skepta, Ben Okri, and Danny Brown). Pitchfork argues "'There Is No End' is Allen as his most copacetic, polished self. It doesn’t feel like the finish line, but rather a passing of the baton".

Adrian Crowley shares a bit of psychedelia indie with 'Northbound Stowaway'; Human Impact offer dirty industrial rock on 'Recognition'; DJ Muggs and Rome Streetz go old-school hip-hop on 'Ace of Swords'; Kele of Bloc Party shares a hypnotic guitar loop on 'The Heart of the Wave'; afrobeat meets hip-hop on 'Cosmosis' by the late Tony Allen featuring Skepta & Ben Okri; Chronixx cries for peace (and legal ganja) on psychedelic reggae 'Safe N Sound'; former post-hardcore band Trophy Scars deliver an Americana-blues song 'Father: Part I'.

Pioneering Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, a co-founder of the afrobeat musical genre, died in Paris on Thursday aged 79 of a heart attack, NPR reports. Allen was the drummer and musical director of musician Fela Kuti's famous band Africa '70 in the 1960-70s. Kuti once said that "without Tony Allen, there would be no afrobeat". Allen later collaborated with a number of artists, and was the drummer in The Good, the Bad & the Queen, with Damon Albarn, Paul Simenon and Simon Tong.