At odds with the world, with reality, with Britpop and with each other, Suede were in a terrible place as they wrote and recorded Dog Man Star. But, writes Matthew Lindsay, it's the album that would end up as their masterpiece. This feature was originally published in 2014
A series of dreamworlds populate May’s best cassette tape releases as picked by Tristan Bath, including Teleplasmiste's British ruralism, Merry Peers’ surreal trips, digital ayahuasca from Prague’s Izanasz, and a pair of anonymous untraceable synth tapes
So you think 'England Lost' featuring Skepta is an appalling single and you'd sooner push your own head into a food processor than listen to it again? Well, John Doran has got bad news for you - it doesn’t even feature in the top five worst cultural things the Rolling Stones frontman has ever done