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25 Years of Infernal Weight: The Destructive Legacy of Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone
Dopethrone, says Dan 'The Doom' Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection on her mind. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard's most notorious album
Anniversary
No Greater Wonder: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial
Books
Follow Your Bliss: How Cosmic Thing Became the B-52s’ Horniest Record in Years
In an exclusive extract from his new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3, author Pete Crighton explores the backdrop to the making of the Athens, Georgia band’s mainstream breakthrough
Reissue of the Week
Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]
Right to the end David Bowie – fierce, smart, autodidact – was uniquely creative, with lessons still to impart, says Jonathan Wright
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XLVIII: The Multinational Music of Occitanie
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Anna Mahtani tracks the revival of a long neglected language, and the diverse music it has inspired across southern France and beyond
Album of the Week
A Different Man: Bronto by The Hidden Cameras
At first blush the floor-friendly latest album from the Canadian purveyors of ‘gay church folk’ sounds a far cry from their early records, but for Claire Sawers there’s a clear throughline in the bittersweet sentiment, the soaring melodies and the sheer euphoria of the record’s yearning for transcendence
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The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne
After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album
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“Being Different isn’t Something to Take Lightly”: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed
Pulp are back with their first new album in nearly a quarter of a century; Jarvis Cocker joins us to talk about More, but also outsider art in America, an attic full of wonder in London and revolution versus violence in Sheffield. Words by Darran Anderson. All portraits by Tom Jackson
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Anniversary
No Greater Wonder: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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