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Dismantled King Back On His Throne: The Strange World Of… Lawrence

Ben Graham meets the Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart singer to talk pop dreams, the pursuit of fame, accidentally inventing indie and laying down the blueprint for Britpop, via ten key points in a varied and unique body of work. Homepage photo by PP Hartnett

Writing A Deep Map: Non-Fiction’s Challenge To The Contemporary Novel

Gareth Rees considers the expectations and confines attached to, and considers what part nonfiction has to play in, the contemporary novel

The Magic Of Stereolab: Electrically Possessed Reviewed

The fourth volume of Stereolab's Switched On series gathers together deep cuts from 1999 - 2008 revealing a band whose joyfulness and ingenuity persistently wrongfooted the critics, finds Zara Hedderman

Farshad Akbari

Echoes of Nothingness

Squealing bleeps, synthesized winds and melancholy themes evoke an arid desert soundscape on the latest album from the Iranian-born electronic music composer

Go-Kart Mozart

Mozart's Mini-Mart

It's Lawrence, with the most effervescent and creative album of his extraordinary career.

Sly And The Family Drone Plot Free Outdoor Gig for Music Video

Go wild, go wild, go wild in the country with the iconoclasts of the Basingstoke avant-garde for their video-making exploits

Squarepusher Details 20th Anniversary Edition of ‘Ultravisitor’

The album blends studio and live recordings by the IDM producer, and has been remastered for its updated release

A Portal To Other Worlds: Laura Cannell On The Music Of The Dark Crystal

Musician Laura Cannell reveals how hearing as well as seeing The Dark Crystal film was responsible for a musical epiphany and talks us through the soundtrack to the recent Netflix Age Of Resistance prequel

Flying Through The Universe: Annie Hogan’s Favourite Music

Facilitator for some of the most influential names in music, and one of the most overlooked forces in left-field British sound, Annie Hogan picks out the seven-inch records that shaped her childhood, and sowed the seeds for a remarkable career

Alexander Tucker

Guild Of The Asbestos Weaver

New album Guild of the Asbestos Weaver highlights Alexander Tucker's links to musical vocabularies past and present, finds Joseph Burnett

Max Stadtfeld

Fancy Future

Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig

More Than An Emblem: The United States Vs. Billie Holiday

Lee Daniels' gorgeous star-spangled biopic of Billie Holiday honours the incomparable artist, but risks reducing her to a shiny, heroic emblem more than the harsh-throated contradiction she was, finds Soma Ghosh

Prince Estate Announces 1999 Reissue Box Set

It takes in 35 previously unreleased tracks as well as well as a DVD featuring footage of Prince around the time of the album's original release

13 (Acts Of Love): Mick Harvey’s Favourite Albums

Fresh off the back of his Ministry Of Wolves work and with Serge Gainsbourg albums and live shows on the way, the former Bad Seed and prolific singer-songwriter gives Julian Marszalek the rundown of his top 13 records

Gruff Rhys

American Interior

billy woods Unveils New Album, ‘GOLLIWOG’

It features contributions from El-P, The Alchemist, Shabaka Hutchings and more