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While rounding up the darkest and brightest of recent releases from Nurse With Wound, Norman Westerberg and Maja S.K. Ratkje, Russell Cuzner receives an unexpected message that calls control into question, asking what role it plays not only in composing and playing, but also in listening... Nurse With Wound live shots by Samantha Hayley
The Leeds duo combine folk with electronics, geographical data with fox-bone rattle to create haunted dreamworlds of sound. Following a new release, Sea-Spiral Spirit, they unravel their unique processes with Russell Cuzner
Digging into their third album in seven years, Noel Gardner finds Nails on focused and punishing form – delivering an unapologetic treatise on elitism and an unmixed, streamlined and unrelenting record of distilled extreme metal
In the three decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has repeatedly been hailed as the band's crowning achievement, and regularly features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. Lifelong Smiths fan Simon Price, however, is not so sure