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Honour The Darkness: An Interview With NYX

NYX drone choir founder Sian O’Gorman speaks to Harry Sword about the Deep England project, Gazelle Twin and their hypnotic, transcendent choral reimagining of Pastoral

I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across A Crowded Room at 40

40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)

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Ein Zei Bri Here: Lightning Bolt Interviewed

Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson are back with their sixth album as Lightning Bolt (and their first for Thrill Jockey, recorded after a break of five years). Suzie McCraken is on hand to ask the questions

Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025

Jakub Knera rounds off the year in Central and Eastern European music with a reflection on how the region's complex ecosystem is reflected in its cultural output, and a selection of 2025's key albums and reissues

If Only You Knew: Grime & Drill For June Reviewed By Aaron Bishop

Aaron Bishop selects his highlights from the UK underground scene including projects and singles from names such as Little Simz, Wretch 32, Meekz Manny and A2

Approaching Grey: Lawrence English On Manga

The Australian composer and Room40 records boss recalls his childhood discovery of the work of Japanese Manga artist Yoshihisa Tagami and the influence it exerted on his new album, Approach

False Idol: Park Jiha Interviewed

As the K-Music 2022 Festival begins in London, Alex Rigotti speaks with Park Jiha about the nuances of playing piri and the tension between nation and identity in her work

An Aura Of The Mythic: Prince Live, By Simon Price

In the wake of the sad news of his passing, revisit the time self-confessed Prince nutter Simon Price witnessed the first proper gig of the great man's surprise London takeover (and a second one the same night)

Sing, Cuckoo! Sing, Cuckoo! Green Man Festival Reviewed

Where Julian Marszalek witnesses a three-way battle for the past in an uncertain and tumultuous present, and Alix Buscovic parties with wicker men and wicked women

Network Time: Yuri Pattison Measures The Modern World

For his new exhibition at Mother’s Tankstation, London, Dublin-born artist Yuri Pattison looks at the invisible substrate of the information economy

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

In a hot September for releases, Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out bagpipe drones, bubbling modular, and other vague music

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for July Reviewed by JR Moores

In his first psych rock roundup to take place under a Labour government, JR Moores welcomes a bright new era 

Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel ft. Siddartha Belmannu

In The Cell Of Dreams

A collaboration between the Polish musician, Lancastrian producer and Kanadiga vocalist proves a balm for Julian Marszalek

Things We Learned At: Latitude Festival 2013

Laurie Tuffrey and Charlotte Wu set up camp in a field in Suffolk to watch Kraftwerk, (almost) get a chrysanthemum from Cat Power and doff their caps to “sexy motherfucker” John Cooper Clarke