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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

Seeing Behind The Surface: An Interview With Tony Cragg

As his new solo show begins at the Lisson Gallery, London, Craft/Work talks to Tony Cragg about a love of geology, the trouble with minimalism, and trying to see beyond the surface of things

Pop Your Clogs: The Royal Dutch Tour Documentary Reviewed

Lara C Cory reviews a subtle and illuminating documentary on Will Oldham and The Cairo Gang's 2014 tour of Holland, which is showing as part of this year's Doc'n'Roll Film Festival

Carla dal Forno

You Know What It's Like

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize: An Odious, Tokenistic Insult To Pop

Yesterday Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, prompting much wailing & gnashing of the teeth. David Bennun argues this was a patronising affront to the noble art of pop

Complete Communion: October’s Jazz With Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith is back with all the juice you need to keep your jazz inhaler vaping: reviews of new albums from Mats Gustafsson, Robert Glasper, Donny McCaslin and Forebrace, along with a round-up of UK and US releases you might have missed over the summer months

Kuedo

Slow Knife

Tomaga

The Shape Of The Dance

The Saddest Sound In The World: Incubate Festival Reviewed

Mat Colegate travels to Tilburg for the 2016 edition of the famously eclectic Incubate festival and reflects on the varieties and mysteries of the human voice

Eat Yr Idols: Rory Gibb On Powell’s Sport

In Oscar Powell's debut full-length, Rory Gibb finds confirmation of both the diagonal honcho's sense of humour and the curiously un-psychedelic quality of his music, as well as a new kind of inscrutability, rooted in detachment where previously it had been the product of anonymity

Nicolas Jaar

Sirens

Yves Tumor

Serpent Music

Incessant Search: An Interview With HMOT

One of the leading voices of Siberian electronic music tells Nikita Velichko why he doesn't feel the scene needs to take "a humble position of a slave to the master" and seek approval from international audiences

Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal

Four decades ago - between the release of Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin - Judas Priest were engaged in a revolution of image and sound... one that would cement the heavy metal aesthetic for good

In Parallel: An Interview With Atom™

The highly prolific veteran German producer looks back over his career with Harry Murdoch following a set at Terraforma, taking in early productions, Raster-Noton and why his goal is the "magical point" of a seven-hour set

Xylouris White

Black Peak

Digging The Past: The Month’s Electronic Music

For the latest edition of Hyperspecific, Christian Eede casts an eye over some of the month's best reissues while reviewing new releases from Bruce (pictured), Call Super, Marie Davidson, Anthony Child and more. Photo courtesy of G.K. Stephens

M.I.A.

AIM