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The Strange World of… David Berman
Darran Anderson offers ten points of entry into the inimitable work of David Berman in Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, and as a poet. Portrait by Bobbi Fabian
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington
Growling wax cylinders, spooky flutes, world-building synth nocturnes. Daryl Worthington reviews the first cassettes of 2026 and the ones that snuck through in the end of 2025
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Jane Weaver Septiéme Sœur
The Fallen By Watch Bird (Expanded Edition)
Fifteen years ago, Jane Weaver's took a sharp left towards a strange and almost magical new sound. Now, she revisits that classic album with new material and a suite of reinterpretations by the likes of Demdike Stare
A Quietus Interview
A less Oblique Strategy: reading PVA’s Tarot
When the band PVA asked if they could do something slightly different for their interview we were only too happy to assist, with the help of a witchcraft shop in Hackney and a deck of tarot cards. Words: Jim Osman. Portraits: Rachel Lipsitz. With thanks to Helgi's Bar and the state51Conspiracy
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Rhythmic Cinema: Sonic possibilities and open source soundtracking ensures Battleship Potemkin still connects 100 years on
From Shostakovich, to Pet Shop Boys, to DIY and grassroots collectivism, Luke Richards celebrates the centenary of the first public screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, on January 18, 1926, and the myriad interpretations of its soundtrack which keep it relevant and radical today
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Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
An interview with the book’s author Michael Lentz and its translator, Max Lawton, about the German cult novel Schattenfroh, a bizarre and troubling novel for our bizarre and troubling times, and its timely appearance in an English-language edition
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The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Strange Young Alien, the founder member and principal songwriter of the Monochrome Set discusses the ruptured cerebral aneurysm that changed the way he thought about music and the creative process
