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Twee, Dull, Dumb? God Help The Girl Reviewed

Helen King reviews Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's debut feature film. But does it Rule The School, or is it Boy With The Arab Crap?

Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)

'The Brown Album' pays testament to the thrilling, sometimes contradictory power of rave as a culture, just months before it splintered, says Joe Muggs

Kraftwerk To Play Tate Modern

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Sónar Announces Scandinavian Plans

Sónar gears up for June's main event in Barcelona with weekenders in Reykjavik, Stockholm and Copenhagen, taking in sets from Jon Hopkins, Factory Floor, Nisennenmondai and more

Erasure’s Andy Bell Shares New Track, ‘Dance For Mercy’

It's lifted from forthcoming solo album Ten Crowns

Hawkwind

There Is No Space For Us

With their banks of synths and the addition of Thighpaulsandra, Jeremy Allen makes the case for the English space rock band's late period

Diagonal Marks 13 Years With New Box Set

'13' takes in cuts by Russell Haswell, Jim O'Rourke, label co-founder Powell and more

Alan Vega

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LISTEN: Pariah Remixes Real Lies

Karenn man reworks Pet Shop Geezers' track World Peace!

Eiko Ishibashi

Evil Does Not Exist

The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself

Darkside

Nothing

Nicolás Jaar’s old jam band with Dave Harrington (and now Tlacael Esparza) just gets funkier with every release, finds Aydin Khalili

Mica Levi Releases New Song via Hyperdub, ‘Slob Air’

It marks the artist's first solo release with the UK label

(13 On The) Wheels Of Steel: Biff Byford Of Saxon’s Favourite LPs

Biff Byford guides Michael Hann through the 13 records of riff-heavy magic that shaped Saxon

Laraaji, Jlin, William Basinski and More Rework Hatis Noit on New Remixes Package

Matthew Herbert and Preservation, with Armand Hammer, also appear on the release

Charli XCX

Brat

On her eighth album, the English singer seems both older and somehow younger, still as blunt as ever, without a single duff track on the deck

A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid’s Lyrical Crime Scene

Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack