Richard Foster

Reissue Of The Week: The Teardrop Explodes’s Culture Bunker 1978-82

Nothing Matters: The Decline Of British Sea Power 20 Years On

Richard Foster revisits Sea Power's debut album and finds a record for the ages; and one that has not lost its mystery

The Trenchcoat Mafia: John Robb’s History Of Goth Reviewed

A new history of all things goth is a labour of love, finds Richard Foster

Rediscovering Ripeness: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Porcupine At 40

Richard Foster considers Marvin The Paranoid Android, the charnel house-like plays of Jacobean England and the owl of Athena (and speaks to Will Sergeant) while writing about Echo & The Bunnymen's oft-misunderstood third long player

Truth Music: Le Guess Who? 2022 Reviewed

Lentils as projectiles, a medieval answer to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, twin xylophone attack from Mexico City, a post-punk opera about the paranoid mind – Richard Foster and Patrick Clarke report back from another headspinning edition of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who?

A Sticky Sense of Fun and Daring: Ride’s 4 EPs

As Ride reissue their first four EPs, Richard Foster revisits his first-hand experience of the band’s glorious first phase, and assesses how the records stand up three decades later

A Guide To Le Guess Who? 2022 By Richard Foster

For those of you lucky enough to be heading to this year's edition of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht next week, tQ's man in The Netherlands Richard Foster selects the ten must-see acts he's most looking forward to

The Love Hangover: Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream Revisited

40 years on, Richard Foster revisits Simple Minds' classic New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and finds an album full of dreamlike shifts in time, other worlds and disorientation

A Proper Job: Richard Foster On The Factory Floor

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Flower Factory, Richard Foster recalls the reaction of Dutch workers to tragic events across the Atlantic

Beats Across Borders: Tallinn-Narva Music Week 2022 Reviewed

Richard Foster travels to Tallinn-Narva Music Week 2022 and sees how tough circumstances can create a strong cultural response

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Dutch underground stalwarts Liú Mottes and Jochem van Tol come up with one of the finer records out of the Netherlands so far this year, finds Richard Foster

Dance Of Youth: Graeme Thomson’s Book On Simple Minds

A new book about Simple Minds explores the early years of one of Britain's most misunderstood bands

Trupa Trupa

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Skulking Gdańsk-based rockers Trupa Trupa sound more evil than ever on latest LP, finds Richard Foster

The Bored & The Beautiful: Advertise Here By EXEK

Their mien may be baggy but their rhythms are taut. EXEK drive a truck through the funky bits of your post-punk record collection; Richard Foster takes up the slack

Blast Or Bless? The Ongoing Enigma Of Black Country, New Road

Richard Foster invokes the 'hot or not' spirit of Wyndham Lewis, continental poultry and outsider cat art when he speaks to BC,NR, about their ongoing evolution. Band portrait by Rosie Foster

Reissue Of The Week: Carambolage Reviewed

Richard Foster looks back at Europe's fertile squat culture of the 80s and the punk, post punk and pop talent that sprang up there, such as German powerhouse Carambolage

Those First Impressions: Claire Rousay Interviewed

Over the course of several shows in Rotterdam and Utrecht, Richard Foster got to talk to the Canadian born, Texas-based musician about making the most of the time we have

Säure Adler

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Richard Foster finds plenty to nod along to in a spaced-out racket from Poznan's Säure Adler

Primitive Painters: Drinks With The Long Blondes

Ahead of its Rough Trade reissue, Richard Foster maps out the backstory of The Long Blondes’ debut, Someone To Drive You Home

Next Stop Kosmos – Tallinn Music Week 2021

Richard Foster encounters the new and the unusual at Tallinn Music Week, "a festival that encapsulates all that is forward-thinking and unexpected in music and the arts"

Reissue Of The Week: Daniel Patrick Quinn & One More Grain

Two odds and sods compilations offer to reveal the singular brilliance of Daniel Quinn, says Richard Foster, despite the stubborn artist not making this revelation easy on anyone, let alone himself

Homesick Astronaut: Hinged By Maarja Nuut

On Maarja Nuut's latest album, Richard Foster finds a restless sonic explorer

Down The Rabbit Hole: Will Sergeant’s Favourite Albums

Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant takes Richard Foster through thirteen favourite albums from The Residents to Love, recalls making records with his dad’s electric shaver and a stringless guitar, explains why it’s time to stop bashing prog rock, and much, much more

Shortparis

Яблонный сад ('Apple Orchard')

Wrecking pop and rebuilding it from the ruins, Shortparis return with what may be the finest record to date, finds Richard Foster

Pitch Perfect: Pat Nevin’s Favourite Music

Footballer, DJ and now writer, Pat Nevin talks Richard Foster through his 13 favourite records, including the time he got the fear from Delia Smith being at John Peel's birthday party, and being asked to write lyrics for Vini Reilly

On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer

The Accidental Footballer provides a self-portrait of one of British football's more singular personalities

The Mother Of Reinvention: Julian Cope’s Peggy Suicide 30 Years On

Peggy Suicide was the first marking and mapping out of a new Julian Cope, says Richard Foster; one who kept us sane and questing for new ideas at the dawn of the 90s

Grauzone – A Band Who Exist In The Forever

Richard Foster dives into a new box set charting the work of Swiss NDW, post punk, coldwave, art punk, who-knows-what-the-hell-they-were group, Grauzone and finds some extraordinary music

Machinefabriek

With Drums

Rutger Zuydervelt’s lockdown project, stitching together bursts of stick work from the likes of Tony Buck, Greg Saunier, and Yuko Oshima, proves an insightful glimpse into the downtime of musicians, finds Richard Foster

Jane Weaver

Flock

The house that Jane built is filled with mysteries and strange reversals, finds Richard Foster

Howie Reeve & Kumio Kurachi

Double Rainbow

In Fukuoka native Kumio Kurachi, Glasgow's Howie Reeve may finally have found his soul mate, suggest Richard Foster

The Rock & Roll Of Clubs: Tracing The Wyrd History Of Accrington Stanley FC

In our monthly subscribers only feature, Richard Foster looks under 'that' milk advert to a Lancastrian football club with an occult history