Reviews

Gary Numan

Splinter

Circuit Des Yeux

Reaching For Indigo

From singer, musician and artist Haley Fohr, a very modern record rooted in the avant-garde music of 50 years ago.

Talismanic And Thirty: The Strange World Of… Yo La Tengo

Three decades of music-making hasn’t dulled the Hoboken group’s ability to stop their listeners in their tracks. Dale Berning gives the casual listener a guide to the high points of their career

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou

The First Album (reissue)

Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 13 Favourite Albums

From Beethoven to The Beach Boys via King Kong: The Musical, these are the 13 pieces of music that shaped Yusuf/Cat Stevens as an artist

Backxwash

Only Dust Remains

The latest album finds the Zambian-Canadian rapper in reflective mode, bathed in warm synths and more melodic percussion to balance the darkness

Scott Kelly Of Neurosis On Boxing

Gravel voiced post metal icon, Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Shrinebuilder tells Toby Cook about his love of pugilism

Caught By The Fuzz: The Black Angels Interviewed

Ahead of a series of shows in the UK, Ben Graham speaks with Austin's fuzzed-out voyagers the Black Angels, to discuss psychedelic music's power to create connections and change perceptions

Beck

One Foot In The Grave

The Wince Of Parties: MGMT’s Sophomore Slump

We're all for artistic freedom, says Julian Marszalek, but what happens when it leads a band straight off a cliff edge?

Wisdom Beyond Shame: Orange Goblin Interviewed

Orange Goblin frontman, “Big” Ben Ward, was infamous for drinking all comers under the table. But now he's gone sober and on new album, Science, Not Fiction, has embraced reason – up to a point. Main portrait by Tina Korhonen. Astrophotography by Giancarlo Erra

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

Saturated Energy: Mbongwana Star Interviewed

From Kinshasa, the debut album by the Central African band, is one of the year's finest. Richie Troughton finds out about capturing the sound of the Congolese capital on record through two generations of street musicians

Grizzly Bear

Shields

Underworld Detail New Album, ‘Strawberry Hotel’

It's the UK duo's first full-length studio record since 2019

WATCH: WRONG Festival Sets

Check out sets from Damo Suzuki & Mugstar, Future Of The Left and more at this year's WRONG Festival in Liverpool, as captured by IMPATV