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Inner Music: Billy Woods, Rashad Becker, Divide & Dissolve and more at Out Fest, Barreiro
At the Portuguese city's annual festival of "singular music", sets by Tashi Dorji, Erik Dæhlin, Masma Dream World and more get me thinking about the curved space of experimental music
Reissue of the Week
Compilation of the Week: When The 2000s Clashed – Machine Music For A New Millennium
Dale Cornish reviews a new five disc set, compiled by Jonny Slut of Nag Nag Nag infamy, that celebrates the fruity abandon of electroclash
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Bar Italia
Some Like It Hot
The Dean Blunt-approved London three-piece arrive with all the fanfare and art world cachet a band could dream of, but do they have the tunes?
A Quietus Interview
Northern Gothic: Jennifer Walton Interviewed
Claire Biddles speaks to the (Northern) English musician about her American influences, about processing intense grief and about working with close friends
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Anniversary
Memories Of Genius: 45 Years On Prince’s Dirty Mind Revisited
John Freeman was not a fan of post-Witness rebirth Prince. Here he recalls happier days with Dirty Mind. The feature was first published in 2010
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Film
How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class
Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film (currently being celebrated in an art exhibition and series of screenings) acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Jarvis Cocker & co's commercial breakthrough, released the same year. Black and white still photography by Bill Stephenson.
Books
Demolishing the Outmoded Society: Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground
Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber
