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Black Sky Thinking
It’s Art, Darling: Kate Bush, Duckie & Loyalty In The Wilderness Years
Fame and favour are fickle, but some artists are forever in your heart and your record box, even if they have made an album with Lenny Henry. Here Mark Wood, aka The Blonde One of Duckie resident DJs The Readers Wifes, explains how a love for Kate Bush is what launched their two decades of dancefloor drama and mayhem
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Release Roundup For November
For your tapedeck (and bandcamp) delectation, the finest new cassette releases, including the best Japanese producer you never heard of, the modern sound of the trombone, the early work of Rangers, and some postindustrial Northern primitive guitar
Anniversary
The Trouble With Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord Of The Rings & Other Tolkien Misadventures
American animating legend Ralph Bakshi attempted to bring J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel to the big screen over two decades before Peter Jackson. On its fortieth anniversary, our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett, takes a closer look at both the film as well as the numerous other attempts to present Tolkien, onscreen and off, in those years
Album of the Week
Strings Theory: Galya Bisengalieva’s EP One
Violinist and composer Laura Cannell explores a trio of new string compositions from the leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, previously a collaborator with Suzanne Ciani, Terry Riley, Thom Yorke and Frank Ocean, and a powerful force in new and primordial music
Baker's Dozen
Transgressive & Alien: ADULT.’s Favourite Albums
As ADULT. prepare to tour Europe, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Miller tell Daniel Dylan Wray about their 13 favourite albums drawn from the tough and leather side of life, from Throbbing Gristle to Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten to Drexciya
Live Reviews
The Mind-Altering Substance Of Éliane Radigue & Senyawa At Le Guess Who?
Like some kind of banishing ritual, the canals circling Utrecht help Le Guess Who? Festival once again bring nothing but good vibes. But, in programming many artists operating far beyond the boundaries of genre, Russell Cuzner wonders what all this deviancy is doing to our minds
Film
Make Porn, Not War: An Interview With Bruce LaBruce
Film-maker, photographer, pornographer, provocateur, Bruce LaBruce brings the sex industry the avant-garde (and vice versa). In this extensive long read interview, H C-(M) talks to the notorious Canadian artist about legal wrangles, b-movies, and radical chic
A Quietus Interview
Lives Less Ordinary: Darren Hayman’s Thankful Villages
As Darren Hayman prepares to release the last instalment of his Thankful Villages project just before the anniversary of the end of WWI, Luke Turner sits down with him to reflect on commemoration, memory, and the celebration of ordinary lives
