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Magic In Residence: Pictish Trail, Rachel Aggs And Jason Lytle On Lost Map’s ‘Visitations’ Series
Lost Map records have spent the last few years inviting some of the world's most interesting musicians to their home on the beautiful and remote Isle of Eigg to record work for their 'Visitations' series. Here, founder Pictish Trail and participants Rachel Aggs and Jason Lytle discuss Eigg's peculiar and potent creative spirit.
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Live Reviews
Take Me to a Happiness Beyond Human Reach: The The Live in Brixton
Tariq Goddard finds himself not just entertained but understood by Matt Johnson as he sees him perform new The The album Ensoulment in full before a run of greatest hits. But, in an era where music has ceded its centrality in everyday life, were he and 5000 others packed into an echo chamber?
Art
Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western
At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
Metal
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for March Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Having failed to secure tickets for the big Black Sabbath farewell this summer, Kez Whelan wonders whether missing out might be for the best. He also reviews the latest from Intensive Care x The Body, The Overmold, Abduction and many more
The Quietus International
The Quietus International: Portuguese Music Reviewed by Pedro João Santos
In the second instalment of our journey through the global underground, Pedro João Santos delivers a guide to the bold musicians, daring festivals and crucial grassroots collectives that are defining DIY music in Portugal in an era of increasing gentrification, and picks out five key releases
Opinion & Essays
Since Yesterday, and The Sororal Strength of Scottish Girl Bands
On the release of new documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands, Claire Sawers speaks to Sunset Gun's Louise Rutkowski and The McKinleys' Jeanette Gallacher to explore how sisterhood – in both a biological and symbolic sense – was both crucial to their creativity, and a cause for their dismissal by the wider music industry
Opinion & Essays
The Women Moving Ukraine’s Underground, Part 1: Metal, Mobilisation and Music
In the first instalment of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk of Neformat explores the role of women in the Ukrainian music scene during wartime
Album of the Week
Purple People Eater: DJ K’s Radio Libertadora!
With his bruxaria sound, DJ K is working at the very limits of Brazilian funk. Eden Tizard dives into his latest album RADIO LIBERTADORA!, exploring the symbolic resonance of the colour purple, new sonic thresholds to adapt to, and a project of revolutionary witchcraft
Low Culture Essay
The Velvet Underground Live In 1969 At 50
Half a century after the release of one of the all-time great live albums, John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale. This feature was first published on 2 April 2020
Listen Here
Lakeland Echoes: Wind, Rock, Fell, Rain & Sea Power’s Krankenhaus
In the latest edition of our new column, Luke Turner reflects on the connection between Sea Power and the music of the landscape that surrounds their Krankenhaus festival. Photos by Paul Hudson of Down At The Front except Esk pics by Luke Turner.
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory
