Noel Gardner
Album of the Week
A New World Being Born – Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984
Following UK and European volumes, 60 left-of-the-dial electronic acts from 70s/80s North America, and another wildly enjoyable multi-disc compilation from veteran indie label turned licence maestros Cherry Red
Album of the Week
A New World Being Born – Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984
Following UK and European volumes, 60 left-of-the-dial electronic acts from 70s/80s North America, and another wildly enjoyable multi-disc compilation from veteran indie label turned licence maestros Cherry Red
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Big Hitters Of 2018
Do you like to soften your nihilism with hard-boogie geetar? Is queer tech-grind your go-to antidote for global socio-political meltdown? Do you rail against the mindless barbarism of austerity with help from mind-walloping noisepunk? Then this, dear friend, is the end-of-year list for you
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Big Hitters Of 2018
Do you like to soften your nihilism with hard-boogie geetar? Is queer tech-grind your go-to antidote for global socio-political meltdown? Do you rail against the mindless barbarism of austerity with help from mind-walloping noisepunk? Then this, dear friend, is the end-of-year list for you
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Foul House: 20 Hottest Hits of New Weird Britain 2018
It’s been a terrible year, in many ways, but either the absolute bullshit of our political discourse actually feeds the beautiful triffids that are flourishing across the musical landscape of New Weird Britain, or else they simply cannot be destroyed. Either way, time to enjoy the finest foulest releases of 2018, from Aman!!!’s Greek rebetiko to Night Thoughts’ coldwave goth to an unnerving Whigfield rethink/remix by Rian Treanor
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Foul House: 20 Hottest Hits of New Weird Britain 2018
It’s been a terrible year, in many ways, but either the absolute bullshit of our political discourse actually feeds the beautiful triffids that are flourishing across the musical landscape of New Weird Britain, or else they simply cannot be destroyed. Either way, time to enjoy the finest foulest releases of 2018, from Aman!!!’s Greek rebetiko to Night Thoughts’ coldwave goth to an unnerving Whigfield rethink/remix by Rian Treanor
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Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums
From teenage awakenings at the hands of Björk and Stereolab via English folksong, a lockdown obsession with Dead Can Dance and a newfound love of Lili Boulanger, Patrick Wolf takes Luke Turner through the thirteen records that have defined his life
Black Sky Thinking
How Punks In Churches Changed Germany & What Still Needs To Be Done
Thirty years on from the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Peter remembers a childhood where music was an escape from the strictures of Communism and punk gigs in churches were subversive acts and asks, what needs to happen to complete the process of reunification? Photo of Di Toten Hosen at a church gig by Mark Reeder
