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Wardruna

Runaljod – Ragnarok

Northern Darkness: Grimmfest 2016 Reviewed

Jay Crosbie heads up to Manchester for this year's Grimmfest and comes back with a rotted handful of bloody treats to look out for in the coming months

A History Of Silence: Cinema, Noise And The Quest For Peace

Patrick Gamble takes a look at director Patrick Shen's documentary 'In Pursuit Of Silence' and ponders what the implications are of our increasingly noisy cinemascape

Acid Arab

Musique de France

Helen Money

Become Zero

Council Estate Electronics

Arktika

Lottie Brazier On Gaye Su Akyol’s Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu

In Turkish punk singer Gaye Su Akyol's second album, Lottie Brazier finds both a nod to the country's distinct classical musics and a force for resistance against cultural conservatism

A Kind Of Visceral Quality: Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Favourite Records

With the imminent release of his score for Arrival, the latest in a now thriving partnership with Denis Villeneuve that will see him take on Blade Runner next year, the Icelandic composer shows traditional reluctance in crafting a list of defining albums and opts instead of 13 works that exemplify a philosophy of minimal gestures with maximum impact

Hen Ogledd

Bronze

The Strange World Of… The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Julian Marszalek tries to talk to Anton Newcombe about the ten highlights of his musical career but ends up discussing the note the Earth vibrates at and his English family crest

Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967

Various Artists

René Aquarius

Blight

Draw A Straight Line: Linear Obsessional Recordings Interviewed

From recordings of Russian spaceports to musical machinery, Richard Sanderson's free-download label has been charting the sonic hinterlands for three years now. The founder and musician talks to Robert Barry

This Time We Go A Little Lower: The Afghan Whigs’ Black Love 25 Years On

In revisiting The Afghan Whigs' 1996 album, Aug Stone speaks to Greg Dulli about its creation, finding not only their masterpiece — exceeding the oft-touted Gentlemen — but also the band's soul record. (Photograph by Danny Clinch)

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

Featuring improvised analogue techno from France, abstract sounds from Hungary, scarred giallo noise from Italy plus some Canadian jaw harp and Russian free-punk, Tristan Bath goes against the grain of Brexit Britain with another month reviewing the best international tape releases

Fela Kuti And London’s “Underground Spiritual Game”

Attending London's recent Felebration — a fairly Ronal portmanteau celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti — Lottie Brazier finds a performance rightly reverent of history even as it creates new meaning for all involved, and an event which, in our current Right-lurching climate, is both necessary and in danger of disappearing

Amoral Avatar

Amoral Avatar

Thor & Friends

Thor & Friends

Tristan Bath on Innercity Ensemble’s III

Alluding to 70s American jazz fusion, contemporary musical counterparts and the uncanny absurdity of David Lynch, in Innercity Ensemble's third full-length album, Tristan Bath finds a counterpoint to mainstream safety and the latest chapter of an irrepressible Polish musical resistance

Laura Cannell

Simultaneous Flight Movement

Agnes Obel

Citizen Of Glass

A Knife To The Throat Of Pop Music: Katie Gately Interviewed

John Doran talks to the maverick sound designer and electronic musician about the hum of MRI machines, recording the street noise of Los Angeles and the terror of talking to Björk

Why Be Here Now Is The Best Oasis Album, By Angus Batey

Angus Batey was the reviews editor on Vox when Be Here Now was released; here he lifts the lid on the sense of panic that Oasis' third album caused in the world of music journalism. But in his love for this album is he mad for it, or just mad?

Painkiller

Execution Ground

Douglas Dare

Aforger

Dirty Songs In A Digital Age: The Live Return Of Arab Strap

Arab Strap's filthy muse was the antidote to late 90s Britpop and joyless indie rock. Now they're back two decades on Luke Turner finds that their songs of love and sex gone awry are more needed than ever. Live photo thanks to Paul Fegen

Personality Dissolve: An Interview With Dan Hayhurst

The multi-instrumentalist and one half of Sculpture talks to Fred Jage-Bowler about seeking a lack of control on his debut solo album, Critter Party, guided by reel-to-reel tapes, unplanned congruences and the spirit of eBay

Columnus Metallicus: October’s Heavy Metal By Kez Whelan

From Anaal Nathrakh to 40 Watt Sun; from Bölzer to Meshuggah; from Enslaved to 11 Paranoias: Kez Whelan is back with all the metal reviews that count for October

The Strange World Of… Severed Heads

A crack squad of Severed Heads fans select ten points of entry into the bewilderingly large back catalogue of Tom Ellard - the core of the long-running, cult Australian electronic project. Introduction by Becky Marshall and selections by JD Twitch, the So Low crew and Stuart McLean from The Dark Outside

Behold! October’s Quietus Comics Round-Up Column

With comics to take you to the Middle East, the near past or the hallucinatory dreamscape of a broken mind, it’s October’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co

Katie Gately

Color

Buvette

Elasticity