Will Snelling

Leonard Cohen Was Right: Songs & Years Of Wisdom Examined

Quietus writers Tom Hawking, Kate Hennessy, Julian Marszalek, Erin Lyndal Martin, Akira The Don, Chris Roberts, Cian Traynor and Luke Turner examine the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, and the truths both universal and personal that they carry. Thanks to Chris Carter for permission to use the image of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in his Leonard Cohen jacket. First published in 2014

Holger Czukay

Cinema

The Grönland label has done right by Czukay with the release of this gorgeously packaged boxset spanning his solo and collaborative work from before Can (pre-1968) and after Can (post-1976)

Scott Walker & Sunn O))) Confirm LP Details

Soused set for release in September

Warp Shares Full Details Of NTS Takeover

Boards Of Canada will make their first public outing since 2013 with an exclusive two-hour mix

Silver Linings: Tamara Lindeman’s Baker’s Dozen

From her challenging relationship with Joni Mitchell to the picks from the thriving music community in her native Toronto, The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman takes Zara Hedderman through thirteen albums that shaped her songwriting

Black Sky Thinking: Glastonbury – Aryan folk festival

Fictions Built Upon Fictions: The Decline Of Totality In Pop

Robert Barry examines how pop culture's impulse towards totality has crumbled during the past two decades, and finds traces of that decline in the fall of communism in Europe, the UK government's crushing of rave, and the rise of the internet

Song To The Siren: Pop Culture & The Warning Klaxon

Robert Barry explores the growing ubiquity of the warning siren in popular culture, all the way from When Worlds Collide to Jason Derulo's 'Don't Wanna Go Home', via hip hop, the rave explosion, sonic weaponry and the panic sonics of contemporary pop

WATCH: New Richard Dawson Video

Richard Dawson shares new video shot in Durham HMP, as part of commissioned installation at Hexham Old Gaol

FESTIVAL REPORT: Øya

Cian Traynor reports from Oslo. Featuring sets from Holly Herndon, Sun O))), Jenny Hval and Arthur Russell Instrumentals.

LISTEN: Gruff Rhys Soundtrack Work

Super Furry Animals frontman shares soundtrack for new film, Set Fire To The Stars; listen below

WATCH: Anthroprophh – ‘Precession’

Watch video of a track from The Heads man's new psych-frazzled project

Unsound: Andy Stott, Pearson Sound & More

A second wave of new names added to the Krakow festival

Lust For Music: Irvine Welsh’s Favourite Albums

With Filth recently released on DVD and a new novel due later this year, the Edinburgh author places a long-distance call from Miami to give Joe Clay the rundown of his top albums

Something Searing: Yannis Philippakis Of Foals’ Favourite Albums

Before the release of new album What Went Down, the Foals frontman gives Lisa Lavery his top 13 LPs, all records united by "people's voices that connect directly", moving through Arthur Russell, Pixies and Howlin' Wolf

BLM Beyond The M25: Jeffrey Boakye On Black Identity Outside London

It was only when Jeffrey Boakye moved out of London that he realised his sense of Black British identity was overly-rooted on the capital. Here, he explores two very different stories of Black life in Hull to argue that we need to look less to America while looking toward a deeper understanding of Black life at home