Michael Head

Why Everything Is Love Is Tidal’s Last Desperate Throw Of The Dice

This weekend, Jay-Z and Beyoncé released joint album Everything Is Love exclusively via their Tidal platform. But with the record already on Spotify, Eamonn Forde argues that this is yet another vain lunge by the 1% and a platform that is failing to take off

The Month’s Electronic Music: Through The Looking Glass

For this month's edition of Hyperspecific, Rory Gibb tours some of dance music's fringes, via improvised electronics, digital Triffids, disembodied grime and hall-of-mirrors house

Lamin Fofana

Ballad Air & Fire / Shafts of Sunlight / The Open Boat

Sierra Leonean artist and producer Lamin Fofana re-imagines geographies of the African diaspora through elegantly abstract sound design

Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand

Travis Elborough hails what he considers one of the greatest lost albums of all time

The Hidden Life Of Trees: An Interview With Gideon Koppel

ten years after the release of sleep furiously, the film's director Gideon Koppel talks to Adam Scovell about time, the seasons, and agreeing to disagree with Richard D. James

Organic Intelligence XLI: Toronto Goth of the 80s & 90s

In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Jonathan Wright visits his younger self in 1980s Canada, when goth was on a rise as steep as his backcombed hair

Nikolaienko

Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye

Ukrainian cassette archaeologist and Muscut records boss melts into a dubby ooze

Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist

Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world

Where Are We Now? The Night by Saint Etienne

Designed for headphone listening, the latest transmission from Bob, Pete and Sarah sounds like hearing Saint Etienne in a dream, finds Tom Bolton

Deep Digs: Jim Smith of Cardiacs on their Big Book & New Album

Sean Kitching caught up with Cardiacs bassist and co-founder Jim Smith to discuss the recent Melodic Virtue book, Cardiacs: A Big Book and a Band and the Whole World, the recent tour, and the forthcoming posthumous album, LSD

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Tristan Bath

From the 'uniquely identifiable sonic fingerprint of Elvin Brandhi to the double bass and field recordings improv of Imanishi and Serrato via Massimo Pupillo's debut solo album, here are the cream of this month's cassette crop reviewed by Tristan Bath

Sweet Belief: Cameron Picton on My New Band Believe

As his sprawling project My New Band Believe prepares a debut LP, Cameron Picton discusses life after Black Midi, the loss of former bandmate Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, ambition, and rethinking the possibilities of singer-songwriter records

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for February Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel reflects the death of three beloved artists, and presents 10 outstanding electronic music releases, from world-building IDM excursions and top notch tech-house to funky jazztronica and avant-garde easy listening

Reissue of the Week: Squarepusher’s Stereotype

Joe Muggs looks back to Tom Jenkinson's first bid for braindance supremacy and finds much to love has been revealed by a crunchy remaster

Why Oasis’ Reunion is the Perfect Soundtrack to Britain in 2025

As the Gallaghers megatour rolls back into the UK, Ed Gillett examines how they fit into the current febrile and nostalgia-driven political climate – and asks what aspects of it they helped usher in

Brainbombs

Disposal Of A Dead Body