Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Possibly the most influential album since The Velvets… the motorik beats is the ultimate European expression of the hypnotic driving synth pulses and the strange guitars which morph melodies into noise. This sounds way ahead of its time now, let alone 35 years ago when it came out. There’s a purity of line and form… very clean, yet still dissonant and compelling.
Nick Cave has collaborated with artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble to produce Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, a superb little book of sketches, photographs, and sundry scribbles. In an extract from the book, they explain how it all came together.
With Grumbling Fur's new album Preternaturals out this week as the Quietus Phonographic Corporation's second release, Daniel O'Sullivan, one half of the magickal duo and prolific multi-instrumentalist, sits down to pen us his Baker's Dozen
Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan
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