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Bölzer

Soma EP

Sweet Thirteen: Jennifer Herrema’s Favourite Albums

Following their interview about Black Bananas' new LP Electric Brick Wall, Jennifer Herrema talks Nick Hutchings through her Baker's Dozen of seminal records

End Times: David Kilgour Of The Clean Interviewed

Hayley Scott speaks to one of the originators of the Dunedin Sound about The Clean and The Heavy Eights

Sort Out Your Shoes, Then Liberate Your Mind: Taman Shud Interviewed

Ahead of their show at Supernormal Festival, Ben Graham meets the thirsty occult louts behind Taman Shud's mighty psychedelic racket, to learn about coping with office job boredom through transcendent volume, esoteric weirdness, crisps and booze

Minimal Foundation: An Interview With Nisennenmondai

With the Japanese trio embarking on a UK tour this week, Tristan Bath speaks with Nisennenmondai in a rare interview to discuss their mesmerising voyages into the interzone between noise, rock and dance music. Along the way he discovers that their commitment to minimalism stretches beyond their intensely stripped-back tracks...

Ian Crause

The Song Of Phaethon EP

The Muffs

Whoop Dee Do

What Comes Around: Paul’s Boutique By The Beastie Boys Revisited

The dust has been settling on the Beasties' second album for 30 years now. Just what the hell was Paul's Boutique about asks Angus Batey

Gang Of Four’s Small ‘P’ Politics: 33 1/3’s ‘Entertainment!’ Reviewed

Houman Barekat considers Kevin J. H. Dettmar's contribution to 33 1/3's series of books dedicated to single albums, a study of Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Poetry: ‘Getting Over It w/ Conscientious Jane’ By Gil Lawson

New writing goes back to its roots this week with new poetry from Gil Lawson

Daniel Patrick Quinn

Acting The Rubber Pig

Anand Wilder & Maxwell Kardon

Break Line

Various Artists

Manchester Standards: Sides 3 & 4

Leman 24/7: Things Learned At Montreux Jazz Festival

Stewart Smith has a high altitude epiphany, induced by wondrous performances from the Daptone Super Soul Revue, Mavis Staples and Stevie Wonder among others, near the shores of Lac Leman...

Galaxy High! Guardians Of The Galaxy Reviewed

Mat Colegate blasts off with the latest comic book adaptation from the Marvel stable (Note: While every effort has been made to avoid spoilers a few tiny hints are unavoidable. Proceed with caution)

In Conversation: Mogwai, “Cockroaches Of Post Rock” On… Mogwai

Mogwai talk to Luke Turner about the highs and lows of their near two decades of operation

Midnight Masses

Departures

By Process Of Iteration: An Interview With Kiran Leonard

John Freeman meets up with the prodigiously talented Kiran Leonard to talk about the next two follow-up albums to debut Bowler Hat Soup and the continual quest to define his sound

The Lowest Form

Negative Ecstasy

Jungle Clearing: Musicians Who Dream Of Excising Their Google Traces

Beige-yet-hip troupe Jungle have made an astounding effort to hide their identities. Is this to create an enigmatic non-presence, asks Robert Barry, or for the privately-educated duo to hide bracingly American Pyscho-esque comments about their grasping desire for fame?

Hair Comes Tomorrow: The Planet Of The Apes Films Reassesed

To mark the latest instalment in the long running franchise, James Ubaghs rewatches all the original Planet Of The Apes films and finds a much darker and more cynical series than many remember

Various Artists

Hyperdub 10.2

Life All The Way Up To 11: Robert Barry on Skrillex & Maximalism

Robert Barry travelled to the Eurockeenes festival to see Skrillex and MIA live. Here, he explores the spectacle of the festival, maximalism, and notions of the real and fake in music

Leaving The Straight Life Behind: BOB Interviewed

Helen King catches up with Richard Blackborow from the "definitive" John Peel indie band

Othon

Pineal

Kenny’s Loggin’ The Past: King Creosote’s Scots’ History Soundtrack

As part of the cultural programme around the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, King Creosote has soundtracked archive footage of Scottish people at work and play. He discusses the project, resulting new album From Scotland With Love, life, death and identity with Nicola Meighan

Sittin’ In Viccy Park: Nas & Illmatic Live At Lovebox

Contrary as it may seem for Nas to be marking the 20th anniversary of his darkly brilliant debut with a full run-through at the Lovebox funfair, Kyle Ellison finds even the most sun-kissed surroundings can't blunt its greatness

York Factory Complaint

Lost In The Spectacle

Tony Molina

Dissed And Dismissed

A Spiral Dance: Noura Mint Seymali Interviewed

Richie Troughton speaks to Mauritanian artist Noura Mint Seymali, the creator of one of the Quietus' favourite records of 2014, about new album Tzenni, navigating life in a globalised world and drawing traditional music into a modern context

Gulp

Season Sun

Trudger

Dormivelgia