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Adolescent Awkwardness: U2’s Boy turns 45

Ben Graham confesses his love for early U2, and implores us to remember them before they became the biggest band in the world. This feature was first published in 2010

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Rafael Toral
Traveling Light

The Portuguese guitarist and ambient composer takes a suite of jazz standards into strange new territory

Books

Platters That Matter: James & Karla Murray’s Vinyl NYC

The new book by photographers Karla L. Murray and James T. Murray documents the unique character and colourful inner lives of New York's finest – by which, of course, I mean it's many and varied record shops

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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

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Melvin Gibbs
Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

When visual artist Arthur Jafa suggested Melvin Gibbs assemble a band to riff off Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, it could easily have turned into an exercise in nostalgia. But Gibbs had other ideas, taking the grooves and rhythmic experiments of electric Miles into weird and wonderful new terrains

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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?

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Sir Richard Bishop
Hillbilly Ragas

Sir Richard Bishop’s latest solo LP for Drag City finds the former Sun City Girl in fine, rambunctious form, says Bernie Brooks

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Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Faith Elsewhere

The Bristol-based, Avon Terror Corps-affiliated duo of Kinlaw and Italian MC Franco Franco bend time and space into terrifying new shapes

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

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno’s Another Green World

In this month’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner and Jude Rogers celebrate the half century of Brian Eno’s wonderful third solo album

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Album of the Week

Informal Proposals: Lotto by They Are Gutting a Body of Water

The Philadelphia group turn shoegazing on its head, replacing its hazy nostalgia with a restless, anxious energy, finds Aydin Khalili

Reviews

DJ Babatr
Root Echoes

Dancefloor relics alongside new interpretations of his era-defining sound from the inventor of Raptor House

Live Reviews

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London

Tariq Goddard sees the light, feels the heat and senses the numinous, temporarily at least, when watching the Preacher's Daughter, live at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London. Live photography by Connie Burke

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Dun-Dun Band
Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Balearic bliss and free jazz skronk collide on the second album from Craig Dunsmuir's Toronto-based big band

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Chicks On Speed

On the release of their career-defining 5LP boxed set, electroclash guerilla girls Alex Murray-Leslie and Anat Ben-David guide Lucy O’Brien through 10 key Chicks on Speed moments

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Rosa Anschütz
Sabbatical

The Berlin-based sound artist makes dark gothy magic from everyday conversations between women

Live Reviews

Highlights From Unsound 2025

Reporting from this year's Unsound in Kraków, Jakub Knera celebrates the return of the brutalist Hotel Forum club venue, while Zachary Cooper dives into Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's epic River Of Fundament

Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October By JR Moores

Before he gets to grip with the latest psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores has a brilliantly bleak brainwave

Reviews

The Utopia Strong
Doperider

The British trio's fourth album suggests equal parts journey into space and a scrabbling around in the undergrowth, finds Richard Foster

Art

Anguish Models & Empathy Machines: Mensch Maschine Musik at E-WERK

John Quin attends a festival of interdisciplinary performances at Luckenwalde, featuring Bendik Giske, Rae Hsu, Nazanin Noori, Discovery Zone and more

Reissue of the Week

Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987

Joe Muggs celebrates the maverick magpie magic of Fini Tribe in the 1980s; a band who occasionally augured the future in the chaos of their practice

Reviews

Jerskin Fendrix
Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire

On his second full-length album, the acclaimed film composer turns to writing soundtracks to his own West Midlands youth

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Pulse Emitter
Tide Pools

Daryl Groetsch submerges the listener in warm pads and playful jazz harmonies, music that ebbs and flows and washes over you in appropriately satisfying waves

Baker's Dozen

Set Everything On Fire: Ron Mael of Sparks’ Favourite Albums

The implacable Ron Mael talks Jeremy Allen through his 13 favourite albums, from fiery free jazz to cutting edge J-pop, via militant hip hop and Bach. Portrait by Munachi Osegbu

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A Quietus Interview

Stillwater Runs Deep: Other Lives on Re-Enchanting the American Dream

After four albums of increasingly lavish Americana, Other Lives recorded their new LP in the heartland from which they’d once escaped. Jesse Tabish guides Wyndham Wallace through Volume V’s panoramic terrain

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Yasmine Hamdan
I remember I forget

A new album from the pioneer of alternative Arab music tempers pain and disappointment with the experimental grooviness she’s known for

Album of the Week

Maggot Brain: SickElixir by Blawan

Jamie Roberts’ meticulously sculpted, brain-detonating sonic constructions provide a peek into an unsettling vision of the future, finds Jon Buckland

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Mark Fell
Psychic Resynthesis

Tones drift apart, come together, converse and collide, on Mark Fell's collaboration with Explore Ensemble

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

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.

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XLIX: Southend (Avant) Rock

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Tim Burrows steps into the outer reaches of the music scene of his Essex seaside hometown and tries to get back before the tide turns

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Adolescent Awkwardness: U2’s Boy turns 45

Rafael Toral Traveling Light

Platters That Matter: James & Karla Murray’s Vinyl NYC

Inner Music: Billy Woods, Rashad Becker, Divide & Dissolve and more at Out Fest, Barreiro

Melvin Gibbs Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

Compilation of the Week: When The 2000s Clashed – Machine Music For A New Millennium

Bar Italia Some Like It Hot

Sir Richard Bishop Hillbilly Ragas

Kinlaw & Franco Franco Faith Elsewhere

Northern Gothic: Jennifer Walton Interviewed

Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno’s Another Green World

Informal Proposals: Lotto by They Are Gutting a Body of Water

DJ Babatr Root Echoes

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London

Dun-Dun Band Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf

The Strange World Of… Chicks On Speed

Rosa Anschütz Sabbatical

Highlights From Unsound 2025

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October By JR Moores

The Utopia Strong Doperider

Anguish Models & Empathy Machines: Mensch Maschine Musik at E-WERK

Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987

Jerskin Fendrix Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire

Pulse Emitter Tide Pools

Set Everything On Fire: Ron Mael of Sparks’ Favourite Albums

Stillwater Runs Deep: Other Lives on Re-Enchanting the American Dream

Yasmine Hamdan I remember I forget

Maggot Brain: SickElixir by Blawan

Mark Fell Psychic Resynthesis

Memories Of Genius: 45 Years On Prince’s Dirty Mind Revisited

How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class

Organic Intelligence XLIX: Southend (Avant) Rock

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Rafael Toral
Traveling Light

Melvin Gibbs
Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

Bar Italia
Some Like It Hot

Sir Richard Bishop
Hillbilly Ragas

Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Faith Elsewhere

DJ Babatr
Root Echoes

Dun-Dun Band
Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Rosa Anschütz
Sabbatical

The Utopia Strong
Doperider

Jerskin Fendrix
Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire

Pulse Emitter
Tide Pools

Yasmine Hamdan
I remember I forget

Mark Fell
Psychic Resynthesis

New Age Doom featuring H.R.
Angels Against Angels

The London Sound Survey
From Dusk Till Dawn

Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble
Signals

Tanya Tagaq
Saputjiji