Welsh "shagger" Rhys Ifans of The Peth and "workman like" Midlands bloke Paddy Considine of Riding The Low go head to head in our one hundred percent spurious battle of the bands. (Which was tested with good humour by Jeremy Allen.)
With his great new album Zemsta Plutona just released, the unique German sci-fi synth-pop explorer and sound artist speaks to David Stubbs about musical deconstruction, radio art, and reconnecting Germany with the culture of Eastern Europe
The space between sound worlds dominates the month’s best cassette releases as reviewed by Tristan Bath. Includes musical tributes to Dundee’s architecture, Burrougshian jungle mixtape collage, sound art from Calcutta and just intonation explorations from Hungary. Live photograph of Iku by Jiří Šeda