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Portrait With Firewood

A meticulous, moving electronic album

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She’s moving on, she’s getting serious, she’s feeling love

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I Cannot Help But Marvel: Susanne Sundfør at Way Out West

At Gothenburg’s glorious Annedal Church late on a Saturday night, Susanne Sundfør creates a spectacle to truly serve her music

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Smote Reverser

They’re prolific, but this time they’re not terrific

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I Long For The Calmness Of The Old World: Ghostpoet Interviewed

Ahead of his appearance at Pop-Kultur this weekend, Ghostpoet talks to Adam Quarshie about swapping the capital for small-town life, the anxieties of the internet age and mental health in the music industry. Ghostpoet portraits by Steve Gullick

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A Type Of Catharsis: Ora Iso Interviewed

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Be Quick Or Be Dead: Iron Maiden at the O2

Jeremy Allen goes to the O2 and watches Iron Maiden go to war, and then goes to war himself with all the battle metaphors the media uses in cases of cancer. All photographs John McMurtrie

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Things Come As They Will: A Q&A With John Burnside

Robert Bright talks to the award winning poet and novelist about his extraordinary life and visionary writing

Film

Fifty Years Of Targets: Peter Bogdanovich Skewers US Gun Culture

Made fifty years ago this week, Peter Bogdanovich's brilliant debut feature, Targets, still has plenty to say about America's relationship with firearms

Books

Music Is So: Emmanuel Iduma’s Soundtrack To A Stranger’s Pose

Emmanuel Iduma's forthcoming new book A Stranger's Pose is "an evocative and mesmerising account of travels across different African cities". Here he picks the songs and sounds that accompanied him on his journey

Art

Twittering Machines: The Surreal World of Les Shadoks

A new exhibition at Annecy Castle takes us deep into the bizarre humour and vivid graphic art of French animated series, Les Shadoks

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Alison Cotton
All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre

On Bloxham Tapes, evocative and extraordinary viola compositions

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Baby Wants To Ride: Gabe Gurnsey’s Physical

Gabe Gurnsey, one half of Factory Floor, has moved up North and made a rave album. It is filthy and brilliant, immaculate and unsettling

Film

A Renaissance For Live Cinema: Performance At Splice & Sheffield Doc/Fest

VR and AR may take all the headlines, but the progressive field of live cinema and audiovisual art performance is just as vital and exciting

Art

Hedge Walking: The Land Art Of Andy Goldsworthy

Will Jennings considers British land artist Andy Goldsworthy's relation to time, nature, and the city

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Onda De Amor

On Soundway, 16 synthesized Brazilian hits that never were, from 1984-94

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Quatermass: Brexit & A Warning from TV History

With dystopian sci-fi drama Quatermass once again on the screens, Alexei Monroe explores how the late 70s ITV version offers fictional parallels with the madness of Brexit

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Rockfort: Your French Music Roundup For July & August

Do you want to listen to and read about all the best French music from the last couple of months? OUI, of course you do. Allez tout droit for Juniore, nOx.3 & Linda Olàh, Zooey and more

Baker's Dozen

Feelgood Hits! Wilko Johnson’s Favourite Albums

Wilko Johnson speaks to Zoe Howe about surviving cancer and his 13 favourite records, from Bo Diddley and the blues to the Doors, Beatles and Rolling Stones

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Travis Scott
Astroworld

Travis Scott is like the scientist of trap artists. On Astroworld he experiments and shocks with his creations.

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If I Did It All Again I’d Keep The Heroin: Sylvain Sylvain Interviewed

The New York Dolls' guitarist on why history shouldn't be tampered with, the legacy of his old band, and how David Johansen was putting on act rather than living the life

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Four Strings More: Serafina Steer Of Bas Jan Interviewed

Ahead of Bas Jan’s upcoming performance at Green Man festival, principal songwriter and lyricist Serafina Steer talks about going collaborative, why folk music isn’t pagan and what it’s like to play 43 fewer strings

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Identity Elsewhere: Gabe Gurnsey In Conversation

Here in his car, Gabe Gurnsey, one half of Factory Floor, takes a trip that takes in a hallucination of ants and the idealised clubbing experience. Words: Jamie Ryder

Beyond The Hits

A Different World: Iron Maiden Beyond The Hits

Louise Brown, John Mincemoyer and Jose Carlos Santos look beyond the Best Of The Beast to bring you a selection of their favourite album tracks, b-sides and deep cuts

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The Idea Vs. The Real: Devo Discuss Their New Book

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Art

(An)Other Space: Oren Pinhassi’s Second Nature

Israeli-born, NY-based artist Oren Pinhassi has his first solo show in London, at Edel Assanti

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Nothing Fabulous Lasts: Fleshback, Studio 54 & Alt-Sex Clubbing On Film

With the release of new films Fleshback and Studio 54, Soma Ghosh looks through the cinematic history of alternative sexual identities and the clubs they let loose in

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Here Comes The Mirror Man: Mark Wallinger In Hastings

John Quin finds poetry in motion at Mark Wallinger's latest solo show at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

Baker's Dozen

In Wide Angle: Simon Pegg’s 13 Favourite Films

Currently on cinema screens in the role of Benji Dunn in Mission Impossible: Fallout, Simon Pegg picks his 13 favourite films

Books

Glorious Extremes: David Stubbs On His New Book Mars By 1980

David Stubbs discusses the music, memories and imaginary journeys behind his latest book, Mars By 1980

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Anticlines

The sixth album from the Berlin-based experimental Colombian producer, and her debut for RVNG Intl

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Djrum
Portrait With Firewood

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Be The Cowboy

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Smote Reverser

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All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre

Various
Onda De Amor

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Astroworld

Lucrecia Dalt
Anticlines