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Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux

Suffused with birdsong and seemingly haunted acoustic instruments, the new album from the Michigan-based artist and curator evokes the eerie sonics of the hospital ward, finds Joel Stern

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Derek Walmsley revels in a late-period concert document that addresses and answers the age old issues about live electronic music

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Graham Dunning
Quern

In a digitally-mediated age, the London-based artist and improviser embraces the physicality of stuff – in all their wobbliness and instability

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

From lap steels gaining sentience to a rethinking of the folk compilation, via wax cylinder kantele ghosts, the return of a dub-folk favourite and a confluence of ancient ceremonial song and left-field techno, Patrick Clarke's guide to the artists pushing the boundaries of traditional music returns

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ADULT.
Kissing Luck Goodbye

Rage and creativity are weapons against despondency on the latest from the Detroit electroclash duo

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Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin

The Cornish filmmaker guides Luke Turner through the music that inspires his own soundtrack and scoring work, from the revelation of first encounters with Derek Jarman to the technicality of dub

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My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe

Formerly of Black Midi, Cameron Picton goes all acoustic, but there's no shortage of ideas on the thrilling debut from his latest project

Baker's Dozen

Vecna Guy’s Track Record: Jamie Campbell Bower’s Favourite Albums

From the record that made him cry while filming Stranger Things, to the surprising location of his Bob Dylan tattoo, actor and musician Jamie Campbell Bower takes Claire Biddles through his life in music

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A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed

To mark Kate Bush's return to live performance, we're republishing this interview, originally posted in 2011, where John Doran talked to one of the UK's most indomitable and peerless artists about her then-new album 50 Words For Snow

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No Image: A King Rocker Conversation with Stewart Lee, Michael Cumming And Robert Lloyd

Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee bring the story of Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales through insightful, lively conversations – and Neil Fox has one of his own with all three to celebrate the release

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LISTEN: Soft Cell Remix HMLTD

Soft Cell share a rare remix of HMLTD

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Gillian Gilbert Of New Order On Power, Corruption & Lies

Gillian Gilbert speaks to Jude Rogers about how New Order found their feet recording what is to many fans, their finest album

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Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed

Ben James Wood is part of a new generation of Cornwall-based producers, mixing and matching modular and desktop/ soft & hard synths to reboot Braindance for the 21st Century barn dance. Words: Noel Gardner. Photos: Patrick Matthews

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Music Is A Time Machine: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed

Ahead of the release of their fourth album, Adam Quarshie caught up with Sons of Kemet to discuss the idea of music transmitting encoded information, escaping the grid and connecting with ancestral knowledge

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A Relic of the Empire: Tom Ellard of Severed Heads Interviewed

Bridget Small speaks to industrial artist, musician, game developer and digital museum curator; and learns that he's not ready to be considered a pioneer... well, not yet anyway. All portraits courtesy of Sevcom

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Plans That They Made: Hüsker Dü Interviewed

Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton

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We Only Have This Excerpt: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

Mark E Smith has a drink with Kevin EG Perry and tells him about literary influences and Ersatz GB. Photograph by Valerio Berdini (Originally published 24th November 2011, republished 24th January 2018)

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Joel Stern

Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux

Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux

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