Brisbane's Sky Needle are the sound of fever dreams and dehydrated desert hallucinations given physical form, churning out sickly improvisations on ramshackle home-built instruments. Sanjay Fernandes talks to the band's Joel Stern about new LP Debased Shapes and the art of self-sabotage
Bristol's Sam Kidel battles with his computer to create constantly evolving club tracks with a hand-played sensibility. He speaks to Rory Gibb about the "strange abstraction" of producing music on a screen, and has recorded us a mix