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Anniversary
Light On The Waves: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Heaven Up Here Turns 40
Angus Batey finds permanence in a record that is often seen as a document of fleeting change and talks about "Hevvo"'s contentious reputation, slammed by Bill Drummond as "dull as ditchwater" in 45 and held up as art for the ages by Cathi Unsworth in Weirdo
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Dance Music For February, Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel
Hyperspecific is back with the first instalment from our new columnist Jaša Bužinel, bringing you a selection of exciting new releases from Kode9, Autechre, Rian Treanor, Venus Ex Machina, Pauline Anna Strom and Giant Swan, among others
Black Sky Thinking
Taking The Heavy Metal Umlaut Seriously (Or, Why Motörhead Are Azerbaijani)
Riffing on the themes he explores in his new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language, Keith Kahn-Harris shares his love of diacritics and explains how the heavy metal umlaut might be less teutonic than it first appears
