Travis

Lowside Of The Road: Barney Hoskyns’ Tom Waits Biog Reviewed

Half Japanese

Vol. 2 1987-1989: Music To Strip By/Charmed Life/The Band That Would Be King (Reissues)

Verfreundungseffekt: Is Love Enough? Versioning, Translating & Self-Translating Maltese Poetry

Having come across one another’s work on The Quietus, British-Maltese writers Jen Calleja and James Vella worked together to create versions of two poems by celebrated Maltese poet Adrian Grima using literal translations. But should ‘versioning’ be considered translating? And can Maltese poets do without English translators altogether? (Portrait of Adrian Grima by Richard Phœnix)

Mother-in-DAW: Fawn/Brute By Katie Gately

With her third full-length album, the American experimental artist envelops life experience in solid electronic texture, finds Irina Shtreis

Something Searing: Yannis Philippakis Of Foals’ Favourite Albums

Before the release of new album What Went Down, the Foals frontman gives Lisa Lavery his top 13 LPs, all records united by "people's voices that connect directly", moving through Arthur Russell, Pixies and Howlin' Wolf

Working The Land: Rebecca Smith’s Rural Explores Class & Countryside

A new book by Rebecca Smith shows a different side to rural living than the Big House fantasies of prestige dramas, finds Iona Glen

Watchmen To Get Teen Makeover?

These New Puritans: Hidden Track-by-Track & Exclusive Photos

Kev Kharas dissects These New Puritans' second album _Hidden_ track by track, and we present an exclusive picture gallery of hot young naked men by Lucy Johnston.

Spool’s Out: September In Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath

Every day is Cassette Store Day in Tristan Bath’s house, so as usual he’s seen fit to hand pick the best recent tape releases, including banging beats, vintage cha cha samples, lo-fi folk and a ‘symphony of noise’

Columnus Metallicus: May’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan attempts to summarise 2019's busiest month for metal in a single column, with new releases from Saint Vitus, Possessed, Nocturnus AD, Full Of Hell and many more coming under scrutiny

Volcanic Super-Eruptions: Sly & The Family Drone’s Walk It Dry

Sly & The Family Drone's latest LP, Walk It Dry, is a rolling disaster in the very best way, says Bernie Brooks

Josh Gray On Sleaford Mods’ English Tapas

Josh Gray uncovers the message of inclusivity through apathy that lies at the heart of the Nottingham duo’s latest release, and the traits that make them the perfect opposite of punk

The Bright Labyrinth: Chance And Repetition

In a selection of excerpts from his recent Strange Attractor-published book, The Bright Labyrinth, Ken Hollings discusses - via John Cage and Edgard Varèse - mass production, organisation, repetition and the (perhaps only) advantage human beings have over machines. (Illustrations by Matthew Frame)

Beware Of The Blob: Lucy & Aaron By Lucrecia Dalt & Aaron Dilloway

For their first proper album as a duo, Lucrecia Dalt and Aaron Dilloway mesh gauziness with darkness to lucid results, finds Vanessa Ague

Mia Farrow, Female Erasure & The Vampire Daddies Of Hollywood

In an extract form issue two of Somesuch Stories, through the lens of Mia Farrow Phliipa Snow considers the vampiric effect on and reaction of Hollywood's women of its men – the twisted and plentiful “Daddies”, looking for their daughter binary, to feed from and reshape

Saluting The Power Animal: Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 20 Years On

Matt Packer breaks the first two rules to toast the impact and lasting legacy of an epochal tale of consumerism under siege, published two decades ago this week