Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
This was the soundtrack to my early ’90s and was instrumental in awakening me to electronic music and so, perhaps, to the birth of Lamb. I suppose it was a discovery of electronic music with a heart – something I didn’t realise existed until this. Hearing this album I’m back in my tree-house-like flat in a coach house in Manchester’s West Didsbury, the vinyl spinning and my ears opening to a whole new musical world.
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
Pop is all over Rainbow Milk, the Gordon Burn Prize-nominated debut novel by Paul Mendez. Here he tells Paul Flynn how a love of Marvin Gaye, Beyonce, Solange, Joy Division and Missy Elliott gave him a clearer understanding of his sexuality and racial identity
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