Esme Bennett

Opened Conversations: Heroines Of Sound Festival 2022

Esme Bennett presents her picks from the performances at this year's Heroines Of Sound festival in Berlin, dedicated to experimental and multifaceted works of the world's most forward-thinking female and non-binary composers. Photos by Ulla C. Binder

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Pick ‘N’ Mix: Luke Vibert Presents… Amen Andrews, Modern Rave, & Rave Hop

Rephlex alum Luke Vibert relives his youth on a career-spanning trilogy of new releases through Hypercolour records

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Menzi
Impazamo

The “futuristic gqom” of Durban producer Menzi offers up a thrilling darkness, finds Esme Bennett

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Underworld
DRIFT Series 1 Box Set

A year-long project which saw Underworld release new music every Thursday, every week, Drift Series 1 is a hefty package, full of delightful surprises, finds Esme Bennett

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Sketches In Eternity: Leonard Cohen’s Thanks For The Dance

*Thanks for the Dance*, Leonard Cohen's posthumous album, sways between melancholy and tenderness, finds Esme Bennett

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Sandunes
11:11

Mumbai-based producer Sandunes surrounds and elevates the listener on latest EP, 11:11, finds Esme Bennett

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Tony Njoku
Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama

Tony Njoku’s follow up to last year's *h.p.a.c* proves to be his most rousing work to date, finds Esme Bennett

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Various
25 Years Of Paper

British house label Paper Recordings was founded in 1994. 25 years later, Crazy P, Flash Atkins et al curate some of the highlights. Esme Bennett is suitably impressed.

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Kamasi Washington & More Of That Jazz In Complete Communion

Stewart Smith once again takes a long draught from the jazz chalice as his Complete Communion column looks at how Kendrick Lamar is spreading the jazz gospel as he reviews Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Cactus Truck, Alex Ward Quintet and Kit Downes

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David Bowie Live Album From 1995 To Be Released

'No Trendy Réchauffé' is the second release in a series of six Bowie live albums from the 1990s

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Dean McPhee
Astral Gold

The Bradford guitarist's fifth album takes Roy Montgomery and Manuel Göttsching on a trip deep into the old weird Yorkshire

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Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG
Pompeii // Utility

For some fans of Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, an album of 33 songs entirely produced by SURF GANG, rather than The Alchemist or Wiki, might constitute a potential dud, but POMPEII // UTILITY is anything but

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Arcade Fire
We

JR Moores considers self-immolation listening to the new Arcade Fire record…

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Melt Yourself Down
Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In

The new Melt Yourself Down might not be as wild and crazy as it think it is, but it's still a heck of a ride, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

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Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan’s Telekon

Toby Manning gets to grips with the Beggars Arkive reissue of Gary Numan's often overlooked second solo album Telekon, and its smart man/machine reversal

Anniversary

Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited

25 years after its release, John Freeman looks back at Polly Jean Harvey’s torrid and brilliant second album, Rid Of Me, a slate-cleaning ball of fury that would shock and awe in equal measure

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Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for February Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Our electronic music columnist argues for the importance of trusting the curator and delivers new gear for the club, soundtracks for afters and other, weirder stuff

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Opened Conversations: Heroines Of Sound Festival 2022

Opened Conversations: Heroines Of Sound Festival 2022

Pick ‘N’ Mix: Luke Vibert Presents… Amen Andrews, Modern Rave, & Rave Hop

Pick ‘N’ Mix: Luke Vibert Presents… Amen Andrews, Modern Rave, & Rave Hop

Menzi Impazamo

Menzi Impazamo

Underworld DRIFT Series 1 Box Set

Underworld DRIFT Series 1 Box Set

Sketches In Eternity: Leonard Cohen’s Thanks For The Dance

Sketches In Eternity: Leonard Cohen’s Thanks For The Dance

Sandunes 11:11

Sandunes 11:11

Tony Njoku Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama

Tony Njoku Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama

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Various 25 Years Of Paper

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