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Dazzling Conglomeration: Hen Ogledd’s Mogic

Hen Ogledd’s third LP is a magnificent mixture of ideas, energies, angles, beings, non-beings, constructions and monsters

Reviews

Amnesia Scanner
Another Life

Their debut LP: deconstructed club music that’s warm, charming and ghastly

Baker's Dozen

Wild Imaginings: DJ Muggs Of Cypress Hill’s Favourite LPs

DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill guides Elizabeth Aubrey through 13 inspirational records, from Wu-Tang Clan to Mobb Deep, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy... and Cypress Hill themselves

Reviews

Soap&Skin
From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend

Another extraordinary set of songs from Anja Plaschg

Reviews

Jessica Sligter
Polycrisis: Yes!

An album about the EU - fittingly, it is peculiar, challenging and confusing

A Quietus Interview

My Music Is My Religion: Heather Leigh Interviewed

Eden Tizard talks to experimental musician Heather Leigh about her latest solo album Throne and her debut studio-based collaboration with Peter Brötzmann as a duo, Sparrow Nights

Reviews

I-LP-ON
Äänet

Ilpo Väisänen returns to the Pan Sonic sound he developed with the late Mika Vainio, and it’s a celebration and an extension of the music they made

Anniversary

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live

Dismissed by many as a hypermasculine schlockfest in 1988, John Carpenter's They Live has aged well. Jeremy Allen assesses its wide-reaching influence on everyone from continental philosophers to French synthwave hipsters

A Quietus Interview

Moments Of Hyperreal Intimacy: Jockstrap Interviewed

London duo intrigue, transport and transform with smart, glitchy, ‘easy’ listening orchestral pop. John Doran talks to Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye

Art

No Fishing Trip: The Photography Of Susana Sanromán

Jude Cowan Montague dives in to the underwater photography of Susana Sanromán, at Leica, Mayfair

Books

The Ordinary Reader: Trading Blows Over The Booker Prize

Old debates become a cipher for more fractious contemporary currents in the latest row over the Man Booker Prize 2018

Art

Catch Me If You Can: An Interview With Larry Achiampong

Michael Appouh catches up with multi-disciplinary artist Larry Achiampong ahead of his solo show at Birmingham's Eastside Projects to talk about music, myth-making, and time travel

Film

The Future Is In Your Hands, Mr Travis: 45 Years Of O Lucky Man!

Ahead of its screening at Brighton's Cine City Festival, writer and actor Graham Duff looks back over 45 years of Lindsay Anderson's brilliant O Lucky Man!

Film

Shit Life Syndrome: Mike Leigh Beyond The Hits

With Mike Leigh's latest film, Peterloo, in UK cinemas this weekend, Fergal Kinney takes a deep dive through some of the British director's less well-known pictures

Film

Reel Sounds: Anne Clark, Mary Lane, Welsh Pop & More At Doc ‘N Roll Fest

Neil Fox checks out some of the best new music documentaries at this year's Doc 'n' Roll Fest, with films focused on Anne Clark, Mary Lane, and Welsh pop.

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This October

Moon Relay to Maarja Nuut, Todd Barton to Turismo Girlfriend World Tour, Accü to Amor: some of the very best good stuff from the past month

Reviews

Orchestra Of Spheres
Mirror

On their fourth album, the New Zealanders reach a new plateau of ingenuity, balance and coherence

Baker's Dozen

The Marshall Suite: Cat Power’s Favourite Albums

Chan Marshall guides Diva Harris through 13 albums that have soundtracked her life, from stealing cars to heartbreak and escaping difficult times

Album of the Week

Songs In The Wonky Of Life: Audiobooks’ Now! (In A Minute)

Is it the deep wonky weirdness that makes them amazing, or is it just that Evangeline Ling and David Wrench are two extraordinary musicians having a brilliant time? Either way, this debut album is a beautiful batshit triumph

Black Sky Thinking

A Broad Church: Why Metal Can’t Survive Without Religion

Heavy rock music has long plundered the scriptures for something to fight against. But what if metal is more dependent on religious faith than its worshippers admit? Dan Franklin takes the sacrament (Ghost pictured)

Live Reviews

Stealthy Living: John Grant at the Brighton Dome

The insidious rise of John Grant is a case for Mulder & Scully. But that doesn’t mean the success is undeserved

Reviews

DUDS
Immediate

You never know what they’re going to do next, but it’ll definitely be brilliant

Reviews

Blancmange
Wanderlust

Musically, Neil Arthur has entered a new realm, but as a lyricist he’s really doing something highly distinctive

Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore For October

This month: Nazi Killer, Constant Mongrel, Vanilla Poppers, Black Mold, energised thrash, and hardcore of the blown-out, tone-filthy variety. Come hither and enjoy

Strange World Of...

Memento Mori: The Strange World Of… Barry Adamson

Ian Johnston speaks with former Bad Seed, ex-member of Magazine, musician soundtrack composer and David Lynch collaborator Barry Adamson in order to find ten entry points into his large body of work

Anniversary

25 Years On: Revisiting David Bowie’s Buddha Of Suburbia

What actually was David Bowie's best album since Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)? The answer, says Julian Marszalek, is the soundtrack to The Buddha Of Suburbia, which turns 25 this year

Reviews

Puce Mary
The Drought

Pulling an album of power, transgression and orgiastic noise from rage, hunger and intimations of apocalypse

Art

Against Ephemera: Charlotte Perriand, Oscar Niemeyer & Zanine Caldas

Wandering through Paris, Jude Cowan Montague stumbles across a show of "greenprints" and curved wooden forms by Charlotte Perriand, Oscar Niemeyer, and Zanine Caldas

Books

The Black Gravity Of Sound: An Interview With Eugene Thacker

Cited as an influence on Warren Ellis and True Detective, Eugene Thacker's philosophical investigations into the "unthinkable world" find new expression in his latest book for Repeater, Infinite Resignation. Here he talks to Michael Brooks about the horrors of philosophy, music, and film

Film

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Dazzling Conglomeration: Hen Ogledd’s Mogic

Amnesia Scanner Another Life

Wild Imaginings: DJ Muggs Of Cypress Hill’s Favourite LPs

Soap&Skin From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend

Jessica Sligter Polycrisis: Yes!

My Music Is My Religion: Heather Leigh Interviewed

I-LP-ON Äänet

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live

Moments Of Hyperreal Intimacy: Jockstrap Interviewed

No Fishing Trip: The Photography Of Susana Sanromán

The Ordinary Reader: Trading Blows Over The Booker Prize

Catch Me If You Can: An Interview With Larry Achiampong

The Future Is In Your Hands, Mr Travis: 45 Years Of O Lucky Man!

Shit Life Syndrome: Mike Leigh Beyond The Hits

Reel Sounds: Anne Clark, Mary Lane, Welsh Pop & More At Doc ‘N Roll Fest

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This October

Orchestra Of Spheres Mirror

The Marshall Suite: Cat Power’s Favourite Albums

Songs In The Wonky Of Life: Audiobooks’ Now! (In A Minute)

A Broad Church: Why Metal Can’t Survive Without Religion

Stealthy Living: John Grant at the Brighton Dome

DUDS Immediate

Blancmange Wanderlust

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore For October

Memento Mori: The Strange World Of… Barry Adamson

25 Years On: Revisiting David Bowie’s Buddha Of Suburbia

Puce Mary The Drought

Against Ephemera: Charlotte Perriand, Oscar Niemeyer & Zanine Caldas

The Black Gravity Of Sound: An Interview With Eugene Thacker

Legacy Cinema: New Light On Old Wounds At The London Film Festival

100 Years: Shirley Collins Reflects On The First World War

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For October

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No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums

Thicker Than Water: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Films

Remembering David Thomas of Pere Ubu, by Sean Kitching

Like Starting Over: An Interview with Shack

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen

Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums

The Strange World Of… Pere Ubu

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Reissue of the Week: Berserker by Gary Numan

The Marshall Suite: Cat Power’s Favourite Albums

It’s All Expression: Matt Berry’s Favourite Albums

Murk in High Def: Demilitarize by Nazar

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Amnesia Scanner
Another Life

Soap&Skin
From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend

Jessica Sligter
Polycrisis: Yes!

I-LP-ON
Äänet

Orchestra Of Spheres
Mirror

DUDS
Immediate

Blancmange
Wanderlust

Puce Mary
The Drought