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Live Reviews
Big Music: The Cure Live At Wembley Arena
Rather than the miserabilists they’re often unfairly painted as, watching The Cure at Wembley Tariq Goddard finds a band of sincerity and empathy, with superb new songs of colossal scale and a bond between artist and audience that continues to grow tighter and more heartfelt as time keeps passing
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For June By Tristan Bath
Minimal Polish footwork, London Americana, digitally degraded Ecuadorian soundscapes? Tristan Bath’s monthly tape roundup has it all, and is as always, reaching far and wide into the undergrowth to find you the best of June’s cassette releases
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence VII: Bill Brewster’s Balearic Sound Of Scandinavia
Get your sauna logs and loosely fitting tiny towels at the ready as we head to Scandinavia for this month’s Organic Intelligence subscriber exclusive, in which Bill Brewster guides you through the Balearic sounds of Scandinavia
Baker's Dozen
Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums
Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom
A Quietus Interview
Embrace The Worm: An Interview With One Leg One Eye
Lankum’s Ian Lynch speaks to Patrick Clarke about his solo project One Leg One Eye, how debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me helped him through a period of personal turmoil, why Lankum’s Mercury nomination made him feel “dirty”, and his return to Supersonic Festival this summer
Baker's Dozen
Youthful Discovery: Objekt’s Favourite Albums
Following the launch of his Kapsela label and the recent release of a new two-track EP, the Berlin-based DJ and producer talks singing Tears For Fears at karaoke as a child and teenage discoveries of Autechre, Björk, At The Drive-In and much more
