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Perchance To Dream: Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination

Hypnotic, righteous and utterly compelling, Nadine Shah's third album is an extraordinary exploration of the health of our country and our world. This is her most powerful statement to date, says Julian Marszalek

I Ate It All Up In Fast Forward: Ariel Pink’s Favourite LPs

Ariel Pink shares 13 of his favourite records, taking in albums from Ata Kak, The Shaggs and John Maus amongst others

Sing, Cuckoo! Sing, Cuckoo! Green Man Festival Reviewed

Where Julian Marszalek witnesses a three-way battle for the past in an uncertain and tumultuous present, and Alix Buscovic parties with wicker men and wicked women

Oh Sees

Orc

Oh Sees break through to psychedelic superstardom with new album Orc

Various Artists

Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986

A sprawling decade of goth, from the strange to the unexpected

DIY Is Dead – Long Live DIY: Hey Colossus On The Underground In 2017

Hey Colossus are stalwarts of the UK underground, a scene that has changed beyond recognition since they formed. Ahead of their set on our stage at Sea Change this weekend, bassist Joe Thompson looks at the rapidly changing world of DIY and asks, does the concept still exist? Photo by Julie R Kane.

Faust

Fresh Air

Iron & Wine

Beast Epic

How Michael Jackson’s Bad Shaped Pop As We Know It

Thriller might be considered the greatest Michael Jackson album but, argues David Bennun, it's Bad that changed pop music forever

Dangling Man: An Interview With Joshua Yeldham

Barnaby Smith talks to Australian artist Joshua Yeldham about the fruits of his latest residency at Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah

Say It Loud: The Art Of Black Power

From Tate Modern's Soul of a Nation show to Soul Jazz's Afro-Centric Visions compilation, Geoff Cowart explores the images and sonics of the black power revolution

Prime Bush Tucker: Luke Turner On Liars’ TFCF

Angus Andrew retreated to the remote Australian bush to make the first Liars album featuring himself as the sole member. Here's what he concocted.

A Date With A Black Hole: The Strange World Of… Keiji Haino

Revered Japanese musical outlier Keiji Haino is currently in his fifth decade of creativity. Ahead of Haino's set for Samizdat at Selfridges in London, Tristan Bath looks for ten points of entry to his work

Cathartic Exorcisms: Oranssi Pazuzu Interviewed

With Berlin's Pop-Kultur fast approaching, Tristan Bath checks in with Oranssi Pazuzu's vocalist and guitarist Jun-His to discuss mortality, the band's crossover appeal and space rock narratives

Junk Shop Classical On Lili Boulanger: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

The chance finding of a 1960 album on a long-gone American indie label led Phil Hebblethwaite into the enormous sound world of the supremely talented French composer Lili Boulanger, who set Psalms to music and might have written a requiem for her own death in 1918 at the tragically young age of 24

Perfect 13: Paul Heaton’s Favourite Albums

Paul Heaton ex of the Housemartins and Beautiful South guides Adrian Lobb through 13 favourite albums - there's a lot of soul in there, but which ones did he nick?

Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson

Negative Chambers

From Glotman and Erlandsson, this is stark and bleak, and beautiful.

Complete Communion: Jazz For August Reviewed By Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith returns with all of this month's crucial jazz releases including a new LP by Roscoe Mitchell and a collaboration between Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathay Korwar and Shabaka Hutchings

Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths’ Strangeways Here We Come Revisited

The Smiths’ last studio album was their most ambitious, adventurous and experimental, too. Thirty years on, Ben Hewitt looks back on the forward-thinking record that could have been the start of a new chapter, rather than a full-stop

Cyclopean Masonry: Steve Von Till Of Harvestman Interviewed

Steve Von Till follows the ley lines from bagpipes to Skullflower, from throat singing to Thin Lizzy, from megaliths to modernity, in conversation with Pavel Godfrey

Breaking Caste: An Interview With Kapil Seshasayee

Veronica Irwin speaks with Kapil Seshasayee about his forthcoming album A Sacred Bore and its roots in an examination of the Indian Caste System. There's also an exclusive premiere of the LP's title track and debut single

Who Will Stop The Rain? Lana Del Rey Live At Oya

Chris Roberts travels to Oslo’s Oya Festival and finds Lana Del Rey stopping the rain and moving fans to tears. Plus Pixies, The xx, Feist, The Shins, Mac DeMarco, Ryan Adams, Angel Olsen and more

1 Thing: August’s R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Considering the more futuristic end of R&B that artists like MHYSA are making, Tara Joshi reviews July and August’s releases

Waste Not Want Not: Art And The Atom

Craft/Work investigates nuclear culture by looking at works from contemporary theatre, sound art, and impossible-to-visit installation pieces

Various Artists

Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music Of The 70s & 80s Volume 1

A entertaining and illuminating compilation of electronic music from Down Under, long ago

The Power Of The Pathetic: Ragnar Kjartansson And Margrét Bjarnadóttir

Ahead of their collaborative ballet for eight guitar-wielding dancers, artists Ragnar Kjartansson and Margrét Bjarnadóttir talk to Craft/Work about music in space, dancing guitars, and making art in the shadow of Donald Trump

Behold! The Quietus Comics Round Up Column For August

Your summer reading taken care of: it’s August’s round up of comics from Pete Redrup & Jenny Robins

Arrows Of Love

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Anger, irony and raging guitars on the second album from Arrows Of Love

Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story

Director David Lowery's latest film, A Ghost Story, is a subtle and moving examination of all the big questions. Mat Colegate sat down to ask him some slightly smaller ones.

Mollie Zhang On Oneohtrix Point Never’s Good Time

Working on a soundtrack may have cramped 0PN's style, but he still comes up with a vivid, grimey and sometimes disorienting cinematic portrait.

Maelstrom! Sparks Interviewed

Jeremy Allen meets Ron and Russell Mael in Paris to talk Morrissey, Moroder, Tati, Adjani, Carax, Ronson and Rundgren, and to discover what it’s like to make music as siblings for nearly 50 years

This Saxophone Kills Fascists: Arrington de Dionyso Interviewed

After becoming a target of online trolls from the alt-right's most lunatic fringes, the prolific master of noise and free jazz, Arrington de Dionyso, discusses his response: his visceral, confrontational new project, This Saxophone Kills Fascists