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Depeche Mode’s Spirit: A Track-By-Track Review By Julian Marszalek

Julian Marszalek went to the Spiritland bar in Kings Cross to listen to Depeche Mode's 14th album. Here he gives us his first listen, track by track run down of what we have in store

A Universe Behind What You Hear: The Strange World of Surgeon

A mainstay in electronic sound for over two decades, the music of Anthony Child AKA Surgeon joins the dots between the techno underground and an abrasive, absurdist lineage that stretches back to the days of COUM. Ahead of Child's set at the legacy of COUM event in Hull on 18th March, Harry Sword hears of his love of Burroughs, watching Mike Leigh with Mick Harris and the dangers of the artistic comfort zone.

Kleistwahr

Music For Zeitgeist Fighters

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For February

Tristan Bath is back with another round of the best recent cassette tape releases - including the epitaph for recently defunct rockers Bad Guys, schizoid electronics from Edinburgh and the soundtrack for an imaginary 70s French thriller

Enter The Golden Age: BDP, Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim 30 Years On

Angus Batey revisits the three albums, released within months of each other, that changed everything in hip hop: Paid In Full, Yo, Bum Rush The Show and Criminal Minded

The BBC’s SS-GB: The Downton Abbification of Nazism

John Tatlock reports on a bizarrely genteel imagining of conquest by a murderous totalitarian enemy, in which everyone has an excellent haircut

The World Zooming In: Remembering Ren Hang

Karl Smith pays tribute to Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang who died this week

Stormzy

Gang Signs & Prayer

Private Territories: Room and House Work

Different images of domestic interiority are explored at two London group shows: Room at Sadie Coles HQ and House Work at Victoria Miro

Letherette

Where Have All The People Gone?

The Second Sex: Philippa Snow On Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Philippa Snow takes an in-depth look at Paul Verhoeven's polarising rape revenge comedy

Children Of Alice

Children Of Alice

Thundercat

Drunk

Kangding Ray

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

Ben Cardew On Aleksi Perälä’s Colundi Sequence Vol. 2

In the second instalment of the Finnish artist's Colundi recordings, Ben Cardew finds both a record more engaged with the idea of space and another component part of Perälä's key to complete musical escapism

Mutated Tradition: An Interview With Konstrukt

Konstrukt’s avant-everything out-jazz is striking fear into the heart of jazz purists across the planet. Danny Riley caught up with their guitarist to talk tradition, techno and improvisation

I Was Struck By Teenage Lightning: On Milo’s Downfall & The Abuse Of Boys

In the wake of Milo Yiannopoulos' career-ending comments on the sexualisation of young boys, Luke Turner writes that this might be an opportunity to bring the little-discussed subject of male sexual abuse out into the open

Jamming Good: Spiders Drummer Woody Woodmansey’s Favourite Bowie Moments

During the earthly sojourn of Ziggy Stardust, Woody Woodmansey laid down the rhythm for David Bowie's mercurial backing band The Spiders From Mars. Here he talks Valerie Siebert through his 13 favourite Bowie tracks, sharing personal memories of how they were made along the way.

Ascent Is Immanent: The Strange World Of Ben Chasny

Ben Chasny is an outlier in the world of psychedelic music, going deeper and further than any of his contemporaries in the field. Danny Riley caught up with him talk about his idiosyncratic vision

Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors

When Bono Vox Met Trump’s Number Two Mike Pence: The CIA Tapes

As David Stubbs wheeled his son's pram past the US embassy he chanced upon a brown manilla envelope of the CIA transcripts of surveillance of top rock band U2 in advance of their singer Bono's friendly chat with President Trump's dastardly assistant Mike Pence

Precarity At The Wine Lodge: Manni Dee Interviewed By Tonka

In which effervescent young soul and dance music blogger Tonka ties one on with techno DJ Manni Dee for this website aka "Mojo for the industrial techno generation". At a Yate's Wine Lodge

Pan Daijing

A Satin Sight

Out Of Time: Ultravox! & Ha! Ha! Ha! Revisited By Chris Roberts

1977 saw the release of both Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha! Chris Roberts looks back four decades and finds that there's sometimes no prize for coming first...

Marching To A Different Dune: Tinariwen Interviewed

Tinariwen bassist Eyadou Ag Leche tells Richie Troughton how the Tuareg rockers are standing up to fight for “freedom and respect” with new album Elwan

Complete Communion: February In Jazz Reviews By Stewart Smith

From nervy skronk all the way to occult gamelan rituals via the hiss, splat & clang of a cyborg wrestling match, Stewart Smith is back with the jazz reviews

Behold! February’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With a giant purple ghost-beast and negativity towards expressive clothing, it’s February’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & Matthew Laiosa

Zones Of Sacrifice: Drifting Through London With Laura Oldfield Ford

With her latest exhibition Alpha/Isis/Eden open at the nearby Showroom, artist Laura Oldfield Ford takes Craft/Work for a dérive through the environs of Lisson Grove

Blow By Blow: George Condo Re-Writes Art History

The American painter of "fake old masters" throws his hat in the ring with Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Cézanne at Berlin's Museum Berggruen

A Dirty Shame: John Waters Interviewed

On the occasion of Criterion re-releasing 'Multiple Maniacs' Ian Schultz chats to John Waters about reissues, the US elections, reading and the future of satire

Wick Reeves’ Big Fight Out: John Wick Chapter 2 Reviewed

Ben Rabinovich watches things go BOOM in the sequel to the immensely entertaining John Wick

Pissed Jeans

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