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Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Faith Elsewhere

The Bristol-based, Avon Terror Corps-affiliated duo of Kinlaw and Italian MC Franco Franco bend time and space into terrifying new shapes

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Northern Gothic: Jennifer Walton Interviewed

Claire Biddles speaks to the (Northern) English musician about her American influences, about processing intense grief and about working with close friends

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno’s Another Green World

In this month’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner and Jude Rogers celebrate the half century of Brian Eno’s wonderful third solo album

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Album of the Week

Informal Proposals: Lotto by They Are Gutting a Body of Water

The Philadelphia group turn shoegazing on its head, replacing its hazy nostalgia with a restless, anxious energy, finds Aydin Khalili

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DJ Babatr
Root Echoes

Dancefloor relics alongside new interpretations of his era-defining sound from the inventor of Raptor House

Live Reviews

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London

Tariq Goddard sees the light, feels the heat and senses the numinous, temporarily at least, when watching the Preacher's Daughter, live at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London. Live photography by Connie Burke

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Dun-Dun Band
Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Balearic bliss and free jazz skronk collide on the second album from Craig Dunsmuir's Toronto-based big band

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The Strange World Of… Chicks On Speed

On the release of their career-defining 5LP boxed set, electroclash guerilla girls Alex Murray-Leslie and Anat Ben-David guide Lucy O’Brien through 10 key Chicks on Speed moments

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Rosa Anschütz
Sabbatical

The Berlin-based sound artist makes dark gothy magic from everyday conversations between women

Live Reviews

Highlights From Unsound 2025

Reporting from this year's Unsound in Kraków, Jakub Knera celebrates the return of the brutalist Hotel Forum club venue, while Zachary Cooper dives into Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's epic River Of Fundament

Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October By JR Moores

Before he gets to grip with the latest psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores has a brilliantly bleak brainwave

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The Utopia Strong
Doperider

The British trio's fourth album suggests equal parts journey into space and a scrabbling around in the undergrowth, finds Richard Foster

Art

Anguish Models & Empathy Machines: Mensch Maschine Musik at E-WERK

John Quin attends a festival of interdisciplinary performances at Luckenwalde, featuring Bendik Giske, Rae Hsu, Nazanin Noori, Discovery Zone and more

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Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987

Joe Muggs celebrates the maverick magpie magic of Fini Tribe in the 1980s; a band who occasionally augured the future in the chaos of their practice

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Jerskin Fendrix
Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire

On his second full-length album, the acclaimed film composer turns to writing soundtracks to his own West Midlands youth

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Pulse Emitter
Tide Pools

Daryl Groetsch submerges the listener in warm pads and playful jazz harmonies, music that ebbs and flows and washes over you in appropriately satisfying waves

Baker's Dozen

Set Everything On Fire: Ron Mael of Sparks’ Favourite Albums

The implacable Ron Mael talks Jeremy Allen through his 13 favourite albums, from fiery free jazz to cutting edge J-pop, via militant hip hop and Bach. Portrait by Munachi Osegbu

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A Quietus Interview

Stillwater Runs Deep: Other Lives on Re-Enchanting the American Dream

After four albums of increasingly lavish Americana, Other Lives recorded their new LP in the heartland from which they’d once escaped. Jesse Tabish guides Wyndham Wallace through Volume V’s panoramic terrain

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Maggot Brain: SickElixir by Blawan

Jamie Roberts’ meticulously sculpted, brain-detonating sonic constructions provide a peek into an unsettling vision of the future, finds Jon Buckland

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Yasmine Hamdan
I remember I forget

A new album from the pioneer of alternative Arab music tempers pain and disappointment with the experimental grooviness she’s known for

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Mark Fell
Psychic Resynthesis

Tones drift apart, come together, converse and collide, on Mark Fell's collaboration with Explore Ensemble

Anniversary

Memories Of Genius: 45 Years On Prince’s Dirty Mind Revisited

John Freeman was not a fan of post-Witness rebirth Prince. Here he recalls happier days with Dirty Mind. The feature was first published in 2010

Film

How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class

Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film (currently being celebrated in an art exhibition and series of screenings) acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Jarvis Cocker & co's commercial breakthrough, released the same year. Black and white still photography by Bill Stephenson.

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XLIX: Southend (Avant) Rock

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Tim Burrows steps into the outer reaches of the music scene of his Essex seaside hometown and tries to get back before the tide turns

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The Dwarfs of East Agouza
Sasquatch Landslide

The Cairo trio of Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi and Alan Bishop leave the maps behind, heading off into an uncharted sonic territory between post-improvisation, contemporary folk and electronica

Live Reviews

Seven Highlights From Skaņu Mežs 2025

Daryl Worthington heads to Riga in Latvia for the annual Skaņu Mežs festival, at which he's immersed in a bath of "deviant and defiant" music and art

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Richard Ashcroft
Lovin’ You

The Verve singer returns, but he's treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores

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Robin Richards
Taproots

The Dutch Uncles frontman finds new shoots from old roots, finds Mary Chiney

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Soulwax

Poised to release their first Soulwax album in seven years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover. Main portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski

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The Plan
Mountain View

Ten years on from their acclaimed debut, the Southend-on-Sea post-punk quintet sound spookier than ever, finds Zara Hedderman

Books

Nocturnal Admissions: Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket Reviewed

Aug Stone explores the myriad riddles and resonances of the new novel by the author of Gravity’s Rainbow

Books

Demolishing the Outmoded Society: Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber

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Formalism On Acid: Mary Heilmann At The Whitechapel Gallery

Looking at Pictures, the Whitechapel Gallery’s major new show of works by Mary Heilmann presents the first major UK survey of this important American artist

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Kinlaw & Franco Franco Faith Elsewhere

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Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Faith Elsewhere

DJ Babatr
Root Echoes

Dun-Dun Band
Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Rosa Anschütz
Sabbatical

The Utopia Strong
Doperider

Jerskin Fendrix
Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire

Pulse Emitter
Tide Pools

Yasmine Hamdan
I remember I forget

Mark Fell
Psychic Resynthesis

The Dwarfs of East Agouza
Sasquatch Landslide

Richard Ashcroft
Lovin’ You

Robin Richards
Taproots

The Plan
Mountain View