Catch up on our latest writing.
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
Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
Tariq Goddard declares that in Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, the actor delivered one of the greatest TV performances of all time – one that was so total, it arguably destroyed him
From avant folk to post-post-club computer music, via several doses of Cornish soundsmithery and a tribute to former Tottenham defender Ledley King, Noel Gardner presents his 10 favourite releases from New Weird Britain in 2025, and rounds up 10 more that got away
Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in an album of slithery bedroom electro-psych well-suited to the late, winter months
Darran Anderson relishes hearing Rupert Hine's soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski's 1978 psychological horror, The Shout and discovers a sonic gateway in the process. Contains mild spoilers for films The Shout, Berberian Sound Studio, Blow Out, and The Conversation