Will Sergeant

Thoroughly Modern Richie: A Hamilton Re(tro)spective At Pallant House, Chichester

From the White Album to the surveillance state, Richard Hamilton showed us the future, then

Spool’s Out with Tristan Bath: The Top 20 Tapes Of 2015

Tristan Bath rounds up his top 20 cassette tapes and favourite tape label of 2015 in his annual assessment of the state of music on tape. Illustration by Wedhar Riyadi

Ian Brown

My Way

Richard H. Kirk / Sandoz

#7489 / #9294

Mogwai

Every Country's Sun

Sonic onslaughts, melody and sweetness mingle on an album that is classic Mogwai made fresh

Peerless. Extreme. Experimental? AC/DC’s Powerage Turns 40

Michael Hann re-examines the 1978 heavy rock masterpiece that is AC/DC's Powerage

Metallica

Hardwired To Self-Destruct

The Quietus Low Culture Podcast: Episode One

The first of the many perks to come directly to you, dear Subscriber

Junglepussy

JP3

Another great GREAT alpha female voice for summer 2018

Organic Intelligence XL: Naples in the Early-Mid 70s

In our fortieth antidote to the algorithm, David McKenna takes us back half a century to Naples, where the influence of a nautical culture and American military radio created a music scene as fertile and chaotic as the city itself

Coal Into Diamonds: Anand Wilder’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his album Break Line The Musical with Maxwell Kardon, the Yeasayer man talks Nick Hutchings through an appropriately musical-themed top 13

Reissue Of The Week: Mogwai’s Young Team & CODY

Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire

Lingering Memory: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II, 25 Years On

Two and a half decades since the release of Aphex Twin's second collection of Ambient Works, Ned Raggett revisits an album whose enigmatic internal logic remains as intriguing and beguiling as ever

A Darker Direction For Doctor Who: New Series Preview

Steven Moffat and Matt Smith have proved themselves – now for that difficult second series. Adrian Lobb relishes another helping of fish custard.

Spools Out: The Best Of November’s Tapes Reviewed

It’s the penultimate Spool’s Out of a tumultuous year, and the cassette tape underground shows no signs of slowing down. Belgian Stoner Rock, imaginary SNES and Czech TV soundtracks, techno noise from Poland, and droney modular synths from none other than Surgeon himself keep our master of tapes Tristan Bath in a good mood. Anthony Child photographed by Cathrin Queins

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