Cat Caie

Soliloquy For Lilith: Nurse With Wound & The Vastness Of Possibility

Created 30 years ago through financial precarity, a new family and phantasmagorical feedback, Soliloquy For Lilith is too often labeled as simply ‘dark ambient’. But Nurse With Wound’s album of hallucinogenic, avant garde and intrepid spirit helped spawn a lineage that includes Aphex Twin, Sunn O))) and Klara Lewis

Low Culture Podcast: The Stone Tape

In this month's subscriber podcast, Luke and John go back to 1972 and Nigel Kneale's cult BBC horror play, The Stone Tape

An Indifferent Hunter: Stories Of Geography Gone Mad

Vol.1 Brooklyn managing editor Tobias Carroll writes on geographical anxiety, the near-reality of the post-apocalyptic science fiction narrative and the contemporary relationship of distrust between man and nature. (Photograph by Carlos Gutierrez)

Future Islands Discs: Samuel T. Herring’s Favourite Albums

From teenage years spent amassing an arsenal of underground hip hop CDs to his first forays into jazz, post-rock and indie, Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring picks thirteen records that soundtracked his coming of age

Mathematical Socialism: Tim Otto Roth Lights Up Hanoi

German artist Tim Otto Roth brings two light and sound installations, aura calculata and Deep Doppler, examples of what he calls “mathematical socialism”, to the Goethe-Institut in Vietnam’s capital city

Phantom Flesh: Extreme Performance Artist Stelarc Interviewed

Our man in Poland, Filip Kalinowski interviews renowned artist Stelarc about the future of the body and human consciousness

Thou

Umbilical 

Raw sludge from Baton Rouge condensed into toxic nuggets of nobbly riffs and deliciously tricksy drum patterns

Flow Interrupted: DOOM Cracks Live

Whether it's the perennial issue of hip hop gigs sounding weird in venues tuned for bands, Oli Marlow struggles with Doom's set at Brixton Academy. Photo Matt Cheetham

WATCH: Test Dept Video

Band mark Trump's inauguration with new video; watch below

Bryozone

Eye of Delirious

From Odesa, sound artist Ganna Bryzhata evokes the hazy ambience of the "Black Sea Paris"

Inner Ear: Slovenian Music For May Reviewed By Jakub Knera

In his third report from the contemporary music scenes of eastern and central Europe, Jakub Knera looks at Slovenia’s underground scene including Širom's imaginary folk and string experiments by Tomaž Grom

Uniform

Wake In Fright

The Breedling

IRUKANDJI

Chris Spalton need not worry, says JR Moores, his debut stab at industrial sound-art meets the mark

Wolf Eyes

I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces

Sludge Maelstrom: An Interview With Prizehog

Following the release of last year's Re-Unvent The Whool album, the metal trio of face-melters-cum-Simpsons aficionados talk to Toby Cook about the record, how relocating Portland has liberated their sound and why Saved By The Bell's Mr. Belding was an unlikely kindred spirit

The Goyt Method: An Interview With The Orielles

As they prepare to release their ambitious third album Tableau, The Orielles speak to Fergal Kinney about how Greater Manchester’s underground culture, putting faith in a first-time producer, and cooking each other’s tea inspired a major creative leap forward