Danijela Bočev

Supreme Joy: An Interview with Smote

Ahead of a performance at Supernormal Festival this weekend, Daniel Foggin, aka Smote, speaks to Danijela Bočev about how labour on a farm in the Scottish Borders, tales of a fearsome medieval wyrm whose lair lay nearby, and an appreciation of patient listening fed into his forthcoming fourth LP A Grand Stream

Compilation Of The Week: Rocket Recordings 25th Anniversary Launch300

Everyone is virtually insane, says Danijela Bočev; what better salve could there be, this week at least, than this compilation celebrating Rocket's 25th birthday?

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Long-awaited record finds London-based Memorials Of Distinction house band SUEP in full high flying five piece formation, finds Dani Bocev

Echo’s Answers: Carla Dal Forno’s Bakers Dozen

Carla Dal Forno takes tQ through thirteen albums that have shaped her life and work, from the life-changing experience of discovering Broadcast to the constant inspiration of Una Baines

Exploding The Mainstream Indie Industrial Complex: INNIT By SCUDFM

Meatraffle's Zsa Zsa Sapien brings urgency and raw punky energy to a set of anthems in defiance of the new boring, finds Danijela Bočev

Inner Visions For A Whole New World: Soccer96 Interviewed

Ahead of their appearance at Sea Change festival and the release of their new album Danijela Bočev talks to Danalogue and Betamax in an attempt to bridge the inner and outer worlds of Soccer96. Photographs by Fabrice Bourgelle

Reissue Of The Week: Tomislav Simović’s Visitors From The Galaxy Remixed

Visitors From The Galaxy was a landmark in Yugoslav-Czech cinema and it featured a groundbreaking soundtrack as well. Danijela Bočev enjoys a recently remixed version of its OST and wonders what it says about the future

Hopeful Monsters: Cavalcade By Black Midi

Temporarily reduced to a three-piece, London's Black Midi are back with an audacious leap of a record

Colleen

The Tunnel and the Clearing

Colleen's seventh album finds the French multi-instrumentalist at her most minimal and her most emotionally raw, finds Danijela Bočev

Mouse On Mars

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Exploring new forms of 'anarchic' AI, Berlin's Mouse on Mars sound as futuristic as ever, to Danijela Bočev

Buke and Gase and So Percussion

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Hudson instrument builders Buke and Gase team up with Brooklyn quartet Sō Percussion for an album rich with the energy of cross-fertilisation

Ashley Paul

Ray

A new album from the London-based multi-instrumentalist finds her in an all new trio with bassist Otto Willberg and clarinet player Yoni Silver

Jon Hassell

Seeing Through Sound

In the second volume of his Pentimento series, trumpet player and composer Jon Hassell updates his 'Fourth World' idea for the new world of tomorrow, finds Danijela Bočev

For The Other An Other: Nadine Shah’s Kitchen Sink

On her new album Kitchen Sink, Nadine Shah cuts loose and makes the record she's always wanted to, finds Danijela Bočev

Ian William Craig

Red Sun Through Smoke

Shorn of his usual effects wizardry, Ian William Craig's new album becomes a frank expression of grief and loss, finds Danijela Bočev

Katie Gately

Loom

In Katie Gately's album Loom, Danijela Bočev finds a record of monstrous power to evoke the beauty to be found in mourning

The Heroine’s Journey: Jane Weaver’s Fenella Rekindles Old Myths

Taking inspiration from Hungarian animation masterpiece, *Fehérlófia* – and England's "first lady of the double entendre", Fenella Fielding, Jane Weaver's latest project is full of utopian potential, finds Danijela Bočev

Kim Gordon

No Home Record

For her first solo album, Kim Gordon digs deep into the uncanny underbelly of American supermodernity, finds Danijela Bočev

Jenny Hval

The Practice Of Love

On The Practice of Love, Jenny Hval reveals her sensitive humane core, finds Danijela Bočev

Jane Weaver

Loops In The Secret Society

Jane Weaver deconstructs her own music and puts it back together again into strange surreal soundscapes, finds Danijela Bočev

Lucrecia Dalt

Anticlines

The sixth album from the Berlin-based experimental Colombian producer, and her debut for RVNG Intl

Soccer96

Rewind

An album of cosmic vision and killer execution

The Time Is Kernow: Gwenno’s Le Kov

Gwenno’s second album is a sonic dream, a political protest cleansed of any cynical resignation, inviting and bubbling with possibilities.

Julia Holter

In The Same Room

Virginia Wing

Forward Constant Motion

Katie Gately

Color

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