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The Fall’s Your Future Our Clutter Appraised Track-By-Track

Forget your 'return to forms', a listen to _Your Future Our Clutter_ proves that The Fall literally and demonstrably are as good as they've ever been.

Dirty Projectors Announce New Album

Intricate indie types announce full-length follow-up to 2009's Bitte Orca

Various Artists

Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984

Test Department

Disturbance

With their gigs in the relics of Britain's manufacturing past, Test Dept took industrial music to its logical extreme. After a two decade wait, they're back with a new record that sees their political fire undimmed.

Inviolability: John Cale’s Fear Revisited

Mat Colegate celebrates the 40th birthday of a lopsided, odd and brilliant album

Swans Set To Record New Album

Michael Gira: "a few more of these short tours are upcoming, then a live album (hand made), then a new studio album"

The Sound And Vision Of Young Scotland: What Presence! Exhibition

Neil Cooper takes a trip to Glasgow's Street Level Gallery to look at photography of post punk Scotland

Foals

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost

Oxford indie boys Foals get to spread out and stretch their creative chops on new double album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost

“Still A Deeply Political Act Of Listening & Love”: Pulp Live

Neil Kulkarni breaks his no-festival rule and braves the corporate overkill of Wireless to see his Pulp. His verdict? They "now stand mighty amidst the dwarfed mediocrity of modern indie" and, crucially, they're a band we need so much, right now. Photograph by Hayley Hatton

Score Of The Replicants: What Is It With Ridley Scott And Composers?

Recent news of composer Jóhann Jóhannsson being removed from Blade Runner 2049 soundtracking duties has surprised some, but as Charlie Brigden points out below, Producer Ridley Scott has previous when it comes to odd decisions around the musical talent.

The Strange World Of… Shit And Shine

We're really made up that one of our favourite sonic entities, Shit And Shine, has recorded an epic Singularity track for our Sound & Vision subscribers. Here JR Moores talks to Craig Clouse in order to offer a ten track guide to his epic S&S back catalogue

The Fall Ownership Case In Court

Insight Specific: Bas Jan’s Yes I Jan

Yes I Jan

Synths, violin, drums and a wonderful voice: day-to-day stories full of uncanny pop punk magic

Across The Evening Sky: Bill Drummond On Mick Houghton

Six days ago, Bill Drummond interviewed Mick Houghton at an event in Walthamstow to promote Houghton's new book Fried & Justified. The following morning, Drummond felt a pang of regret…

INTERVIEW: Loop’s Robert Hampson

The Loop frontman sits down with tQ to discuss his band’s reformation, the new EP and Loop's live show.

Heal Your Soul: Fatoumata Diawara’s Favourite Music

Acclaimed Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara talks Adam Quarshie through her favourite records, explaining the influence of powerful female vocalists from both the United States and from Mali's Wassoulou region.