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Mindhunter drops on Netflix tomorrow, and there are plenty of reasons to be excited. For a start, there's a dream team behind the drama, which follows the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit as they track down serial killers. It was executive produced by Charlize Theron and David Fincher, who also directed four episodes; it's familiar territory for Fincher, who covered the infamous Zodiac killer in his 2007 film Zodiac. In the creator's chair is Joe Penhall (writer of the 2009's The Road), and it stars Johnathan Groff, who was excellent in HBO's Looking, and Anna Torv, an Australian actress who turned heads in the sci-fi series Fringe. It's clearly impressed the big guns at Netflix ahead of its premiere; a second season has already been ordered.
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So much new music is arriving in October that it's getting overwhelming. Last Friday saw a triptych of excellent albums arrive with Yumi Zouma's Willowbank, Cults' Offering and Kelela's Take Me Apart. Tomorrow, the landslide continues: the dream pairing of Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile release their joint album Lotta Sea Lice; alt-pop pioneer St Vincent returns after three years with MASSEDUCTION; singer/rapper King Krule releases The Ooz; Beck is back with Colors; and Pink releases Beautiful Trauma, her first album in five years. Need I go on?
