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When You Look Out Of The Void: The New Wave Of Czech Noise

Super Sonics – 40 Junkshop Britpop Greats

Various

A compilation of "junkshop Britpop" – from Bis and Shampoo to Menswear and Rialto – has Ned Raggett feeling wistful

Rockfort! French Music For August Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna rounds up the cream of the latest electronic, jazz and indie rock releases from France, taking in Maghrebi sounds from Lyon, farty drum machines and oceanic musique concrete. Homepage image of TripleGo

Uniform’s Michael Berdan On Cormac McCarthy

Michael Berdan of the band Uniform pens an essay for tQ on how the stunning beauty and harrowing violence in the books of the great Cormac McCarthy has influenced his work

Senyawa & Stephen O’Malley

Bima Sakti

The Sunn O))) main man goes head to head with Javanese duo Senyawa with visceral, elemental results

The World’s First Band: Black Country, New Road Live At Haldern Pop 2020

What happens when you're the band tipped for very big things just as everything grinds to a halt? That's when things really start to get interesting says Richard Foster

The Strange World Of… Hawkwind

Joe Banks offers ten musical reasons why maverick space rock titans Hawkwind matter

Best Of Fronds: Zheng Bo’s Vascular Sexuality

Zheng Bo's exhibition “The Soft and Weak Are Companions of Life 柔弱者生之徒” at Kunsthall Lissabon offers a fascinating *ars erotica* of plant-human relations

Lexicon Of Love: The Liar’s Dictionary By Eley Williams

The debut novel by Eley ('Attrib.') Williams turns out to have a heart as big as its vocabulary, finds CD Rose

O Captain: Is Robert Altman’s Popeye Still A Failure 40 Years On?

In 1980, Robert Altman turned his talents to an unlikely character with a live-action take on Popeye – with Robin Williams in the title role. The confusing plotline and baffling concept troubled audiences at the time – but how does it hold up?

Max Richter

Voices

Max Richter leads from the bottom on new album, Voices

H.P. Source? Lovecraft Country Reviewed

Misha Green’s thrilling adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel, Lovecraft Country could hardly have arrived at a more apposite moment, finds Sean Kitching. *Contains mild spoilers*

A Tower Of Songs: Sylvie Simmons’ Favourite Music

Like a gamekeeper turned poacher, rock journalist Sylvie Simmons has a new album of her own music out. Here she guides Manu Ekanayake through 13 lifelong inspirations, from Leonard Cohen to Johnny Cash, Miles Davis and Black Sabbath

Hearts Of Glass: Still House Plants’ Fast Edit

The new album by Still House Plants is a fractured, fractious thing, twinkling like glass in the light

Young Southpaw

The Lost Archimedes

Young Southpaw gets tangled up in tangents on *The Lost Archimedes*, but it's that sheer excess that makes this spoken words record so funny, finds Nick Roseblade

TootArd

Migrant Birds

Armed with a Yamaha PSR-62 synthesizer, TootArd's second album creates dreamlike effects, finds Richie Troughton

otta

Songbook

Otta's latest EP offers a playful disregard for genre boundaries, but its her soaring vocals that hang the record together, finds Will Salmon

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For August

Noel Gardner is back with this Summer's best punk, hardcore and 80s focused French Oi. (Home page portrait is of All Hits)

James Dean Bradfield On Compiling Crossword Puzzles

To see himself through lockdown, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has been compiling tailor-made crossword puzzles for his family and friends. He tells Patrick Clarke about the therapeutic effects and extreme cultural wormholes they can inspire. Plus, solve an exclusive '80s indie crossword compiled by JDB himself!

The Alchemical Brothers: Brian Eno & Roger Eno Interviewed

Wyndham Wallace speaks to Brian and Roger Eno about their new mini-LP Luminous and the state of the world in 2020

Laura Cannell

The Earth With Her Crowns

Recorded at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, the latest from Laura Cannell breathes life into empty structures, finds Stevie Lennox

Memory Theatre: Darran Anderson’s Inventory Playlist

Darran Anderson's new book, *Inventory*, is published this week in the US. Here he shares a playlist of the songs behind the book

Outside Looking In: Window Galleries In The Era Of Social Distancing

While entering physical gallery spaces requires booking, queues, and face masks, shopfront window galleries offer an experience of art viewing perfect for an era of social distancing

Unprecedented Times: On ‘The Long Good Friday’ And A Vulnerable Britain

British gangster flick The Long Good Friday soon turns 40 – but the vision it presents of a vulnerable, desperate Britain with an uncertain future holds a timely sense of urgency to it, finds Daniel Broadley

The Stooges

Live At Goose Lake August 8th 1970

Live At Goose Lake August 8th 1970 is a true rarity – a Stooges live cut that actually *sounds good*, finds Richard Foster

Casserole Buffet: Bright Eyes Interviewed

As they gear up to the release of their long-awaited tenth album, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott speak to Patrick Clarke about their innovative approach to sonic world-building, the many forms of loss that inform their new record, and Donald Trump's "psychotic" America

Coastal Explorations: Visitations 0202 By Rachel Aggs

Prolific post-punk guitarist Rachel Aggs goes it alone on her debut solo record and discovers beauty in an inward-looking sound, finds Stephanie Phillips

The Residents

Metal, Meat and Bone

With every new Residents album, a new world to explore. And Metal, Meat and Bone is one of the richest, finds Richard Foster

Low Culture 15: Lucio Battisti’s Anima Latina

Lucio Battisti was a huge star at home in Italy but he tended to be regarded as a teenybopper abroad (despite once being David Bowie's favourite singer). It is time this view is questioned, says David McKenna, so we can start celebrating him as the godfather of Italian spiritual cosmic fusion

Mob Deep: Michael Imperioli’s Favourite Music

Actor, writer, producer and musician Michael Imperioli – best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos – chooses his 13 favourite tracks, and discusses the use of music in the series. Simon Price listens in an unmarked van across the street.

Maggi Payne

Arctic Winds / Ahh-Ahh

Two re-issues from electronic music pioneer Maggi Payne on Leuven's Aguirre Records leave Dustin Krcatovich thrilled and transfixed

All Making Sense: Chris Frantz Interviewed

Chris Frantz talks to Ian Gilchrist about life and work in New York and Nassau with his ground-breaking bands Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club