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Strength In Strangeness: The Anchoress’ Favourite Albums

Ahead of a show this Saturday at London's Southbank Centre, Catherine Anne Davies takes us through the 13 albums that have defined her life and work as The Anchoress, from childhood memories soundtracked by The Carpenters and lifechanging encounters with the Manics and PJ Harvey as a teen, to newfound infatuations with SZA and The 1975,

Gold Dust Of Our Musical Worth: Ian Anderson’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall, the Jethro Tull man picks out his thirteen finest albums

“Music? Horrible.”: David Yow’s Favourite Records

Although he says he doesn't listen to music, and that he's not a musician, The Jesus Lizard's David Yow nevertheless supplies a heartfelt Baker's Dozen that ranges from Motörhead to Snoopy's Christmas

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

Organic Intelligence XXXIV: Tromsø Techno

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Jeremy Allen takes us up to the far north of Norway and the emergence of the country’s techno scene

Majestic: The Orb’s U.F.Orb Turns 30

Darran Anderson celebrates The Orb's "chance encounter between Steve Reich and Ming the Merciless in the Black Ark" – one of the most unlikely number one albums of the early 90s

Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka

Hiraeth

Largely improvised to tape in the small Polish village of Sokołowsko, the duo's second album feels exploratory and experimental in the truest sense, finds Jakub Knera

Eagles Of Death Metal

Heart On

You Suffer: How A One Second-Long Song Represents The Age Of Anxiety

Novelist Benjamin Myers reflects on the 1.316 second-long track 'You Suffer' by grindcore titans, Napalm Death, and what it says about the age of anxiety we all live in

Klara Lewis

Ingrid

for her third solo release on Editions Mego, Klara Lewis moves into long form experimentation with a single twenty minute track for cello and electronics

Spiders’ Webs From Scraps: Guy Garvey’s Favourite Albums

Before his edition of the Meltdown festival begins next month, the singer-songwriter, broadcaster and Elbow frontman talks to Lisa Jenkins about his love of Talk Talk, lyrical grey areas and nutmeg-based mishaps

Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 20

JR Moores looks back two decades and finds it was No Code that provided Grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero

Black Sabbath

The Ten Year War

The first decade of Sabbath - all those brilliant early Ozzy albums - remastered and re-released in a lavish vinyl boxset.

Rock & Hard Places, An Extract: Andrew Mueller Goes To Woodstock

In a chapter from his recently expanded _Rock & Hard Places_ travelogue, Andrew Mueller recalls the horrific oomska of 1994's second Woodstock festival. Plus a Q&A with the author by Alex Ogg.

Unfulfilled Promise: Toronto, Drake & So Far Gone

After Dhruva Balram's family emigrated from India to Canada, he came of age in a new city, the optimistic soundtrack provided by emerging megastar Drake. Here he celebrates the breakthrough mixtape which provided the background to first love but also looks back and asks, what went wrong?

From Dusk Til Doom: Reading Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow

New book Monolithic Undertow promises "an outer stellar orbit of sounds underpinned by the drone”. Mathew Lyons follows the thread from the dawn of time to Sunn O))) and Sarah Davachi