Catch up on our latest writing.
The Associates’ fourth album was a notable commercial bomb after the smash success of Sulk, with Billy Mackenzie aiming to find a new way forward without Alan Rankine. Our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett, takes a look at the first proper reissue of the album in thirty-five years to see what diamonds might be in the rough
As These New Puritans prepare for a major Barbican concert, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett speak to Luke Turner about their grand plans and how their relationship feeds into the band's resolutely DIY approach. B&W portraits by Guy Lowndes, other pictures George Barnett
Tristan Bath looks over this month’s best tapes including ambient sax entropy, a nightmarish trip to a German partykeller, lingering ancestral whispers from Northern Ireland plus krautrock recorded in 1993 at a Lake District cottage