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Calling Occupant Of Interplanetary Craft: Matias Aguayo Interviewed

Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music

Membranes

What Nature Gives... Nature Takes Away

The Membranes' latest, What Natures Gives… Nature Takes Away has everything from a 21st century take on the Beats to an alternative theme tune for Match of the Day, finds Richard Foster

Delight In Small Fuck-Yous: Natasha Lennard’s Non-Fascist Life

Stephanie Sy-Quia reads Natasha Lennard's Being Numerous: Essays on the Non-Fascist Life

Napoli Ever After? The Rise And Fall Of Diego Maradona

With a new documentary on the man about to hit UK screens, Jeremy Allen looks back over the career of controversial footballer Diego Maradona

Behold! Summer’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With travel through space and on the motorway, it’s the latest roundup of new comics from Pete Redrup & co

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This May

A selection of the finest albums, EPs and tracks that have received heavy rotation in our office this month, chosen for you by John Doran, Luke Turner, Christian Eede and Robert Barry

Injury Reserve

Injury Reserve

Arizone trio Injury Reserve blend industrial experimentation with old school rap on their self-titled debut, finds Mike Vinti

The Watch Is Ended: Game Of Thrones Doc Director Jeanie Finlay Interviewed

Jeanie Finlay captured the epic task of making the final series of Game of Thrones in documentary The Last Watch. Here, she tells Luke Turner about bumping into the Night King in Spar and finding the human stories among cast and crew. ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Spaceship

Outcrops

Aseethe

Throes

The tracks on Aseethe’s new LP, Throes, move slowly, but with purpose and conviction, says Bernie Brooks

Live Report: FKA Twigs At Alexandra Palace

FKA twigs resurrects and transforms herself beautifully in her UK return, says Aimee Armstrong. Live photography by Mahaneela

Voyage Of The Upsetter: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & On-U Sound Go To The Moon

Rainford, the new album by Lee 'Scratch' Perry goes some way to revealing the man behind the myth, finds Adam Quarshie

Sacred Paws

Run Around the Sun

The second album by Sacred Paws, Run Around the Sun provides a finely rounded meal for Johny Lamb

Mystery Trains: Urvakan Festival Reviewed

Nikita Velichko travels to Yerevan to investigate the ghostly sites of a children's railway a photobook library and all of the Armenian bands and producers who are playing at a festival there. Photographs by Anna Krtchyan, Danial Hadvai, Kira Kachalina and Jimmy Gyan

slowthai

Nothing Great About Britain

The debut album by always-grinning anarchist, Slowthai, traffics in everyday pain, squelchy grime, drill bassiness and woozy hip-hop, finds Colin Gannon

New Weird Britain This May Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner trawls the abyssal depths of the UK underground and finds gems from avant industrial types Harrga and sweat juiced future rave from MCR-based producer LOFT

Rev Magnetic

Versus Universe

The debut album by Rev Magnetic is a dynamic, ecstatic cacophony, finds Jamie Chambers

Who Gets To Be The Artist? An Interview With Suzanne Lacy

Barnaby Smith talks to artist Suzanne Lacy about CalArts, the counterculture, and project management

Hollywood Endgame: The Boring Messianism Of The Avengers

Avengers: Endgame shows there is still no place for utopia in Hollywood's messiah factory

Tyler, The Creator

Igor

Tyler, the Creator's latest album remains ambiguous and uncertain, finds Aaron Skates

Earth

Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Full Upon Her Moving Lips may be Earth's busiest album to date, but it is also one of their loveliest, finds Tom Coles

Live Report: Saint Etienne Play Tiger Bay At The Barbican

Ian Wade goes to London's Barbican for "a bunch of trad. arr. bangers" from Saint Etienne's third album. Live photography by Jamie Fry

Anois, Os Ard: A Column About Irish Underground Music

Eoin Murray goes in search of New Weird Ireland and finds murky Gaeilge dub; feverish psychedelic improv and Irish-Sierra Leonean Afrofuturist soul

The London Sound Survey / Iain Chambers / Robert Worby

Thames / The Eccentric Press / Factitious Airs

The first three releases from new label Persistence of Sound comprise a fitting manifesto, finds Antonio Poscic

Trouble Everyday: Sirens By Kevin Richard Martin

On his first album under his own name, Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) offers up a record of unparalleled intimacy and sensitivity, finds Euan Andrews

Columnus Metallicus: May’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan attempts to summarise 2019's busiest month for metal in a single column, with new releases from Saint Vitus, Possessed, Nocturnus AD, Full Of Hell and many more coming under scrutiny

Laurence Pike

Holy Spring

Whether solo, as here, or with his group Szun Waves or in his many collaborations with the likes of Liars and Bill Callahan, Laurence Pike is a percussionist of rare skill and broad range, finds Tom Bolton

Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse: The Strange World Of… Daniel Higgs

Daniel Higgs has built a legacy in the pursuit of his own spiritual truth. Ahead of an appearance at Terraforma festival he talks Matthew Neale through his back catalogue, with detours via mass media indoctrination, a drive-by shooting, and the mystery of how cassettes work

Helm

Chemical Flowers

On new album Chemical Flowers, Luke Younger expands his compositional palette, finds Colin Gannon

Stereolab

Transient Random-Noise Bursts / Mars Audiac Quintet

With expanded re-issues of two of their classic 90s albums and a world tour soon to come, it's the perfect time to fall for Stereolab's charms all over again, finds Anna Rahkonen

Ruby Rushton

Ironside

The latest project from 22a boss Tenderlonious, Ruby Rushton is a raw and vibrant take on old school American jazz, finds Mike Vinti

Boom Boom Pow: Black Midi Interviewed

Ahead of their appearance at Sea Change Festival this weekend, John Doran speaks to Geordie Greep and Cameron Picton of Black Midi and asks, what exactly does it take for a challenging band to make a genuine go of it in 2019? Avatars created by Anthrox Studio. Band portrait by Dan Kendall. (Warning: the 'Crows Perch' video contains flashing images)