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YOU: Star In Factory Floor’s New Video

Can you do better than Mark Stewart?

Enjoy Sensory Deprivation, Courtesy Of Matmos

Limited edition box set of new Matmos EP includes flashy headphones and opaque eye glasses

Low Culture Essay: Natasha Carthew on the Elephant Fayre

As festival season approaches, writer, memoirist and founder of the Class Festival of literature Natasha Carthew looks back to the 1980s and reflects on the influence of the anarchic Elephant Fayre on her life and work. Images courtesy of Port Eliot / Michael Barrett

How The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Lived Down To Their Name

Why is it so difficult to revisit the strident political albums of one's youth? David Bennun returns to the once inflammatory Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury and finds it’s so much smaller now, and didn't it all used to be fields around here?

Micachu & the Shapes: No Pigs Were Harmed In The Making Of This LP

For their latest, Good Sad Happy Bad, experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes sank a few then confined themselves to a rehearsal space for a stripped-down, marathon recording session; some metal ensued, as they tell DJ Pangburn

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: 2017’s Best Pop

Anna Cafolla guides us through twelve months of joy, rage, dancing and daydreaming, with HAIM, Carly Rae Jepsen, Ibeyi, Charli XCX and more.

Bringing The Balmy & Barmy To Life: Animal Collective’s ODDSAC Reviewed

Daniel Ross takes in Animal Collective's new visual album at the ICA, and suggests that to take the Baltimore band too seriously is to miss the point altogether

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Dazzle Ships (reissue)

Musicians Issue Open Letter Warning Of AI’s Infringement On Artist Rights

The statement from the Artist Rights Alliance was backed by more than 200 signatories, including R.E.M., Elvis Costello and more

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

Mike Barnes' new book A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s explores the expansive possibilities of the progressive rock scene

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For November Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Your guide to the best brand new heavy metal returns, with Kez Whelan taking in new releases from Tomb Mold, Autopsy, Hexvessel, Cirith Ungol and more

Sonic Mouth: Peter Strickland Interviewed

As his culinary oddity Flux Gourmet is released into the world, Sam Moore sits down with Peter Strickland to reflect on his own Sonic Catering Band from back in the day

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Wilco (The Album)

Dale Cornish Details New LP, ‘Traditional Music Of South London’

Cornish's debut for The Death Of Rave includes tracks about masculinity, trainers and his home base of Croydon

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Detail New Album, ‘Viscerals’

It's preceded by lead track 'Reducer'