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Black Sky Thinking
This Is A Low: Blur, Asia & Cultural Appropriation
In claiming their new album The Magic Whip to be 'Asia-inspired', Blur have become the latest in a line of Western musicians to boil down the diverse cultures of the most populated region in the world into one nonsensical mishmash, says Sandra Song
Punk
Noel’s Straight Hedge: The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed
In a busy month for his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner looks at trans visibility in the hardcore scene as he reviews a demo from G.L.O.S.S., and covers new releases from Dark Blue, Give, Cheena, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, Karanteeni, Couch Slut, Generacion Suicida, G.L.O.S.S, Jackals, Mangle
A Quietus Interview
Iridescent Curiosities: An Interview With Empty Taxi
Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation
A Quietus Interview
“A Reaction To Mediocrity”: Spectres Interviewed
With their debut album Dying fresh on the shelves yesterday, the Bristol four-piece's Joe Hatt and Adrian Dutt talk to Joe Clay about pushing their abrasive sonics to the limit, putting on gigs in crypts and police cells with their label Howling Owl and why they're hoping their music will have the audience launching cheap booze their way
A Quietus Interview
Hall Of Mirrors: An Interview With Mumdance & Logos
For their new collaboration Proto, Jack Adams and James Parker drew on their love of 90s rave music, folding happy hardcore, gabber and jungle influences into their own forward-looking sonics. In an in-depth interview, they talk to Christian Eede about putting the album together
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