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In Search Of A Higher Plane: Le Guess Who? Festival 2016
With performances from The Ex — as well as their spotlighting of Ethiopian music in Fendika and Zerfu Demissie — and Brazil's Elza Soares, at he tenth anniversary year of Utrecht's Le Guess Who?, Noel Gardner finds a festival that has shifted its weight and broadened its vision in search of more. (Photographs by Tim van Veen, Jan Rijk and Jelmer de Haas)
Black Sky Thinking
Why Fabric’s Reopening Is A Pyrrhic Victory & The War Is Not Won
fabric will soon reopen under a new set of stringent licensing conditions after a deal was reached between the club, police and local authority. Here, Christian Eede looks at why the club's concessions for reopening might have come at a greater cost than they were worth
Metal
Columnus Metallicus: Bleak November’s Best Metal, By Louise Brown
Louise Brown manages to drag herself out of the pit of disappear this terrible month has pushed us all into to find hope in the rancid art and galumphing noise of Witchwood, Robert Pehrsson's Humbucker, Testament, The Eddy Malm Band, Spiritus Mortis, Tower, T.O.M.B
Cassettes
Spools Out: The Best Of November’s Tapes Reviewed
It’s the penultimate Spool’s Out of a tumultuous year, and the cassette tape underground shows no signs of slowing down. Belgian Stoner Rock, imaginary SNES and Czech TV soundtracks, techno noise from Poland, and droney modular synths from none other than Surgeon himself keep our master of tapes Tristan Bath in a good mood. Anthony Child photographed by Cathrin Queins
Album of the Week
Jeremy Allen On Justice’s Woman
In the French electronic duo's third album, Jeremy Allen finds not only a a work that sets right any misstep that may have occurred between 2007's † and the present day, but also a potent commingling of their anachronistic mechanical workings with a touch of the human hand, reaching out
Baker's Dozen
Thirsty For Song: James Johnston Of Gallon Drunk’s Favourite LPs
As well as being the lynchpin of suited rock howlers Gallon Drunk, James Johnston has played with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey - but we're not going to hold the fact that he's picked both of them for his Baker's Dozen against him. Portrait by Steve Gullick.
A Quietus Interview
No Note Wasted: Tyler Damon And Tashi Dorji Interviewed
Following the release of their new LP Both Will Escape, Tyler Damon and Tashi Dorji talk with Elizabeth Newton about contemporary currents of free improvisation, resistance to dogma, and finding inspiration in unexpected places
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