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Members of Reciprocate and Sly & The Family Drone combine their considerable powers with stalwart James Allsopp on reeds to make a spontaneous and highly idiosyncratic racket

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Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Archie Forde examines how a 13th century apocalyptic plainchant has appeared everywhere from classical music to hip-hop and cinema soundtracks

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Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed

Ahead of the release of new album Domestic Bliss and an appearance at Acid Horse festival in May, the amniotically-linked trio speak to Archie Forde in binaural stereo

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Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics

Many membered South London group drag the capital's post-punk scene into strange and scrappy new realms, restlessly documenting England’s deep reserves of residual weirdness

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Sleaford Mods
The Demise of Planet X

The latest from Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn finds the duo at their most melodic, but do their familiar rants about cultural decline hit different in an era of far right culture warriors calling for civil war?

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Earl Sweatshirt
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The ex-Odd Future member grows up, still just as intense as ever

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Meitei
Sen’nyū

An album of ambient music composed of flutes, drones and field recordings, inspired by Japanese onsen culture – best listened to while lazing in the bath

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No Joy
Bugland

Restless French-Canadian one-woman-band teams up with Fire-Toolz to wreak havoc in the digital uncanny valley

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Forth Wanderers
The Longer This Goes On

After seven years, the New Jersey quintet return older, wiser but just as rough and ready, finds Archie Forde

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The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years

The five-track Now You Exist EP is due out next month

Baker's Dozen

The Reaches of Peaches: Peaches’ Favourite Albums

Ian Wade meets Peaches in Soho to discuss the 13 records that have shaped her life and work, from Lil' Kim to Laurie Anderson, disco to krautrock

Books

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab’s ‘Super-Electric’

Ben Cardew's new book, Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs, recounts the tale of Stereolab in 20 songs that represent certain vital aspects of the band’s make up (from romance, to collage and repetition). In this extract, he looks at the idea of 'propulsion', as it relates to ‘Super-Electric’, the title track of the band’s second EP

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ADULT.
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Rage and creativity are weapons against despondency on the latest from the Detroit electroclash duo

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Playlists

Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin

The Cornish filmmaker guides Luke Turner through the music that inspires his own soundtrack and scoring work, from the revelation of first encounters with Derek Jarman to the technicality of dub

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My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe

Formerly of Black Midi, Cameron Picton goes all acoustic, but there's no shortage of ideas on the thrilling debut from his latest project

Baker's Dozen

Vecna Guy’s Track Record: Jamie Campbell Bower’s Favourite Albums

From the record that made him cry while filming Stranger Things, to the surprising location of his Bob Dylan tattoo, actor and musician Jamie Campbell Bower takes Claire Biddles through his life in music

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A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed

To mark Kate Bush's return to live performance, we're republishing this interview, originally posted in 2011, where John Doran talked to one of the UK's most indomitable and peerless artists about her then-new album 50 Words For Snow

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No Image: A King Rocker Conversation with Stewart Lee, Michael Cumming And Robert Lloyd

Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee bring the story of Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales through insightful, lively conversations – and Neil Fox has one of his own with all three to celebrate the release

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LISTEN: Soft Cell Remix HMLTD

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Gillian Gilbert Of New Order On Power, Corruption & Lies

Gillian Gilbert speaks to Jude Rogers about how New Order found their feet recording what is to many fans, their finest album

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Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed

Ben James Wood is part of a new generation of Cornwall-based producers, mixing and matching modular and desktop/ soft & hard synths to reboot Braindance for the 21st Century barn dance. Words: Noel Gardner. Photos: Patrick Matthews

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Music Is A Time Machine: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed

Ahead of the release of their fourth album, Adam Quarshie caught up with Sons of Kemet to discuss the idea of music transmitting encoded information, escaping the grid and connecting with ancestral knowledge

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A Relic of the Empire: Tom Ellard of Severed Heads Interviewed

Bridget Small speaks to industrial artist, musician, game developer and digital museum curator; and learns that he's not ready to be considered a pioneer... well, not yet anyway. All portraits courtesy of Sevcom

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Plans That They Made: Hüsker Dü Interviewed

Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton

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We Only Have This Excerpt: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

Mark E Smith has a drink with Kevin EG Perry and tells him about literary influences and Ersatz GB. Photograph by Valerio Berdini (Originally published 24th November 2011, republished 24th January 2018)

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Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture

Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture

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Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed

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Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics

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Sleaford Mods The Demise of Planet X

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Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love

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The Demise of Planet X

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The Demise of Planet X

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Live Laugh Love

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Live Laugh Love

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Sen’nyū

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Sen’nyū

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Bugland

No Joy
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