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Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Reviews For February

Noel Gardner says hello to Low Life, Drinking Boys And girls Choir and Muro, while saying farewell to Maximum RocknRoll...

Living In Another World: Remembering Mark Hollis

Following news yesterday of the loss of Mark Hollis, Talk Talk's mastermind, Wyndham Wallace pays tribute to a man who truly understood music's magic and mystery

After The Flood: Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock 30 Years On

A triumph of art over commerce or ruthless, selfish exploitation? On the anniversary of its release, Wyndham Wallace looks at the complex story behind Talk Talk’s final, legendary album

Polar Shift: An Interview With Pulled By Magnets’ Seb Rochford

After the end of jazz outliers Polar Bear, their leader Seb Rochford underwent monumental personal change. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about re-connecting with his Indian heritage, studying under master musicians in Mysuru, and the ancient texts that informed his staggering new project

Black To Comm

Seven Horses For Seven Kings

Black To Comm’s latest is a masterpiece of sound design, and that’s no backhanded compliment, says Bernie Brooks

The Sky Would Open Up: Twenty Years of Sleater-Kinney’s The Hot Rock

Len Lukowski explores what Sleater-Kinney’s uncompromising album of emotional extremes meant to a teenage queer in 1999, and what it means now, on the twentieth anniversary of its release

The Plotters: A Beautifully Balanced Korean Noir

In The Plotters, the first of Korean author Un-Su Kim's books to be translated into English, Hannah Clark finds a novel to linger on

Marshmallow World: Henry Hudson At Hannah Barry

Allan Gardner steps into a winter wonderland at Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham

Nothing Is Trite: PJ Harvey In A Dog Called Money

Neil Fox looks deeper into PJ Harvey's process as revealed by new film A Dog Called Money

A Chance To Cut: Ed Atkins Curates Stan Brakhage, David Kamp

John Quin finds the first cut is the deepest at Berlin's Schinkel Pavilion

Spellling

Mazy Fly

Lessons Learnt: Joe Mount Of Metronomy’s Favourite Albums

As Metronomy reissue 'Nights Out' for its 10th anniversary, their frontman Joe Mount sits down with Patrick Clarke to pick his favourite records, and explain how they shaped him

Ugly Songs For Ugly Times: Xiu Xiu’s Girl With Basket Of Fruit

Xiu Xiu return on the wonderful Upset The Rhythm label with another album of dissonant, angry songs about the current state of global awfulness

Desperate Journalist

In Search Of The Miraculous

Sculpt A Rodin From Mashed Potato: On Tour With Ecstatic Material

Outlands is a new network of promoters, arts organisations and curators putting on strange and wonderful performances in the corners of New Weird Britain. Their last tour featured Beatrice Dillon making a racket to splatter sculptor Keith Harrison's Play-Doh - Jennifer Lucy Allan reports

Columnus Metallicus: February In Heavy Metal Album Reviews

Kez Whelan looks at the good, the bad and the very very ugly (hello Pissgrave) when it comes to the best heavy metal albums released this month. This feature contains very NSFW imagery

King Midas Sound

Solitude

Kevin Martin and Roger Robinson team up for the heaviest King Midas Sound yet, a bleak telling of a love gone wrong

In An English Country Garden: The Much Missed Radicalism of Derek Jarman

A quarter of a century after the death of Derek Jarman in February 1994, Adam Scovell looks back at one of the most radical artists of his day, and wonders where we might find his ilk today. All images courtesy of the BFI.

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For February

Shuddering industrial bass music, old school keyboard techno, experimental club sounds, and modular ragas inhabit February’s greatest tape releases, picked for you by Tristan Bath

How Did It Feel? Spacemen 3’s Playing With Fire Revisited

Julian Marszalek speaks to Jason Pierce, Pete Kember and Will Carruthers about the making of Spacemen 3's 1989 classic, Playing With Fire

The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle By The Sex Pistols 40 Years On

Michael Hann is ready to acknowledge the multiple faults of The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, but he'd still sooner listen to it than Never Mind The Bollocks...

Cosey Fanni Tutti

TUTTI

In her first solo album since the early 1980s, Cosey Fanni Tutti creates music as appropriate for the dancefloor as it is evocative of her North Norfolk home

Coming Clean: George McFall Drops His Disguise

For his new album (which streams in full below), George McFall has reverted to his given name, overcoming the need for an alias like Clean George IV. He has also reined in the rock guitars in favour of a more severe synth-driven sound, and found a new target for his sharp satire: himself. Photo by Kimi Gill

Fishy Tales: Rodrigo Fuentes’ Trout, Belly Up

The debut collection of short fiction by the award-winning Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Fuentes gets its English translation by Ellen Jones

Straight Outta Salford: The Non-Poetry Of Shaun Ryder

A new book collects the lyrics of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape, reconextualising Shaun Ryder’s gritty urban realism – just don’t call it poetry

Shock Treatment: Piercing Director Nicolas Pesce’s Favourite Gialli

From its lurid aesthetics to its pulsing soundtrack, director Nicolas Pesce's second feature, Piercing, is a homage to the great Italian horror movies of the 1970s. Here he takes us through ten of his favourites, from Dario Argento to Lucio Fulci and beyond

The Poetics Of Space: Ana Santos & Carlos Bunga At MAAT, Lisbon

Two new exhibitions at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, showcase Portuguese contemporary artists. Anathema, an exhibition of Ana Santos’s sculptural work and Architecture of Life, a retrospective of the installations and spaces created by Carlos Bunga

Cloud Sculptors: An Interview With Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

Allan Gardner talks to Frederik Nystrup-Larsen following the opening of his recent solo show with Oliver Sundqvist at Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen

The King Of Philadelphia: Teddy Pendergrass On Film

A new documentary by Olivia Lichtenstein examines the sometimes tragic life of Philly soul supremo Teddy Pendergrass

Efdemin

New Atlantis

Inspired by Francis Bacon, Phillip Sollmann emerges in his Efdemin guise for an album of haunting electronics that explores the duality of utopian thinking

Hyperspecific: January And February’s Electronic Music

Our electronic music column Hyperspecific returns for 2019 featuring new releases from Anastasia Kristensen (pictured) on Warp sub-label Arcola, Substance on Ostgut Ton and Ossia on Blackest Ever Black, amongst others

Capital Punishment: An Interview With Gum Takes Tooth

After five tumultuous years, Gum Takes Tooth have delivered one of 2019’s early standouts in the form of new album ‘Arrow’. Patrick Clarke meets the band to talk the realities of musicianship in London, automatic writing and the story behind their stunning third record. All pictures by Eric Oliveira.