Brendan Telford

Rattle

Sequence

Midlands any-instrument-so-long-as-it’s-drums band release their euphoric second album

Gum Takes Tooth

Arrow

Gum Takes Tooth delve into the manifold horrors and confusions of 2019 London and find just enough euphoria and hope to keep you dancing

Mind Over Mirrors

Bellowing Sun

Jaime Fennelly, in cahoots with various excellent collaborators, makes another joyful transcendental record

Moon Gangs

Earth Loop

William Young, aka Moon Gangs, delves further into scifi soundtracks and Vangelis epics and comes up with a blissful new album

Edward Penfold

Denny Isle Drive

Backwards-looking, forwards-thinking, sideways-slanting pastoral folk from Edward Penfold

Total Control

Laughing At The System

A wonderful album of rage, laughter, hysteria, all kinds of eclectic noise.

Soho Rezanejad

Six Archetypes

A powerful lysergic pop debut from the Danish solo artist

Ben Frost

The Centre Cannot Hold

A depressive ode to the current state of the world we live in, Frost gives no easy answers on The Centre Cannot Hold, nor refuses to bludgeon us with irreversible abrasion

Golden Teacher

No Luscious Life

A warm and subversive album for ravers, poets and babies.

Robert Sotelo

Cusp

The debut for ex-Joya man Andrew Doig under his new pseudonym - an album of gentle time travel into a slightly crooked other reality.

Normil Hawaiians

More Wealth Than Money

A killer slice of freeform raging post-punk, rescued and reissued by Upset The Rhythm.

Applauding Deconstruction: An Interview With Hua Dong Of Re-TROS

After eight years in the wilderness, Beijing trio Re-TROS have just released the sublime Before The Applause but all is not as it seems. Brendan Telford speaks with Hua Dong about their rebirth

Accidents Of Displacement: An Interview With Trupa Trupa

On the launch of their third LP, the ironically titled Jolly New Songs, Brendan Telford speaks to Polish avant-punks Trupa Trupa’s Grzegorz Kwiatkowski about forsaking democracy for collective creativity, dark histories and the disconcertion of happenstance

Shit And Shine

Some People Really Know How To Live

The kind of album that jerks and staggers through your dreams and lingers into waking life.

Buttonhead

Never Or Forget

Peculiar, disarming and fiercely adroit - Buttonhead are back with a strange and excellent second album.

Omni

Multi-Task

On their second album, Omni take their influences and use them all at once - and it works, mostly.

Terry

Remember Terry

Celebrating Terry, a band from the Australian underground that is sardonic, shambolic and unadorned.

Cornelius

Mellow Waves

Another lush, exuberant release from Keigo Oyamada, even though it doesn't quite have the magic of his strongest work.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

War Machine OST

War Machine is not a great film but the soundtrack, from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is quite possibly a classic.

Moon Diagrams

Lifetime Of Love

Chain and the Gang

Best of Crime Rock

Ulrika Spacek

Modern English Decoration

Part Chimp

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Rat Columns

Candle Power

Pissed Jeans

Why Love Now

Lawrence English

Cruel Optimism

Auditory Transcriptions: The Strange World Of… Lawrence English

Over twenty years of creating immersive soundscapes and joining forces with the finest musicians and composers across the globe, Lawrence English shows no signs of slowing down. He speaks to Brendan Telford about the aural ley lines that have led him on this journey

Irma Vep

No Handshake Blues

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Feed The Rats

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Brendan Telford On Hey Colossus’ Dedicated To Uri Klangers

The nihilistic bombast and bluster that is the noise of Hey Colossus showcases a disparate cache of men desperate to beguile, bewilder, and laugh at the demise of all around them – including themselves. Brendan Telford looks at this bludgeoning compilation that spans the band’s brutal, mystical history

Taman Shud

Oracle War