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The Strange World Of… Circle

Jussi Lehtisalo, founding member of Circle, guides Kevin Mccaighy through highlights of their bewilderingly large back catalogue

Tension & Release: An Interview With Karin Park

Sweden's Karin Park tells John Freeman about Motörhead-inspired new single 'Look What You've Done' and discovering music through a religious upbringing

SD Laika

That’s Harakiri

Grace Jones

Nightclubbing (Reissue)

This Is My Music: Dean Wareham’s Favourite Albums

April Clare Welsh gets a rundown of the former Galaxie 500 frontman's all-time top 13 LPs before he comes to the UK to tour in support of his debut solo album next week

Lykke Li

I Never Learn

On Camp & Conchita: An Eurovision Victory For The LGBT Community

Richard Osbourne looks at the camp history of the Eurovision Song Contest, and argues that Conchita's victory this year represents a newly serious side, and a symbolic victory for Europe's LGBT community

Disorientating Eclecticism: Neneh Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi Revisited

Lesley Chow celebrates an album with an epic vision of the future balanced with a taste for the cheap, sordid and perverse

The Queen Is Dead: Rule, Ritual & Riot In King Charles III

Mike Bartlett and Rupert Goold present Jessie Thompson with a decidedly grim - and historically familiar - vision of Future Britain in King Charles III, showing at the Almeida

My Mind Shuts Down: An Interview With Ben Marcus

Jess Cotton speaks to novelist and short story author Ben Marcus about bending but not breaking reality, the dictatorial thinking of Jonathan Franzen, Leaving the Sea and why sometimes it's better not to know the answers

Swans

To Be Kind

Full-Frontal Lo-Fi Lunacy: Satan’s Satyrs Interviewed

Ahead of their London show this weekend, Harry Sword catches up with Virginia trio Satan's Satyrs to talk new album Die Screaming, recording their debut album with levels pushed into the red, and playing with Electric Wizard

Lily Allen

Sheezus

A Dish Best Served Cold: Blue Ruin Reviewed

James Ubaghs reviews Jeremy Saulnier's low budget revenge thriller

Dulli Noted: Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs’ Favourite Albums

With Do To The Beast, the first Afghan Whigs album since 1998, recently released, frontman Greg Dulli takes Aug Stone through the crime scenes of his all-time top LPs

Master Of Puppets: Blurt’s Ted Milton Interviewed

Ahead of a live streaming gig on Saturday (see the foot of the feature for cheap tickets),Ted Milton of art rock, jazz punk 'situationists' Blurt talks to Sean Kitching. Photographs courtesy of Rene Castelljn

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Split LP

Unwound

Rat Conspiracy

The Great XScape? Will Michael Jackson’s Absence Make For A Great LP?

Mof Gimmers looks forward to the release of posthumous Michael Jackson LP XScape and asks whether, without Jacko around to tinker, this might be his best album since the 1990s

His Catastrophic Plan: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Let Love In

Val Siebert looks back to the Bad Seeds album that had it all...

The Horrors

Luminous

Jack Ruby

Hit And Run

Untidy Selections: Mr. Scruff’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of his new album, Friendly Bacteria, out on Ninja Tune this month, the tea-loving master of the marathon DJ set pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking the top 13 records out of his crate

Inspiral Carpets

Dung 4 (Reissue)

Communication Breakdown: An Interview With Wrangler

With the release of their debut album as Wrangler, John Doran meets Benge, Stephen Mallinder and Phil Winter to discuss technology, paranoia and the legacy of Cabaret Voltaire

Welshmen In The USA: Gruff Rhys Spins A Tall Tale

Adam Narkiewicz took his countryman Gruff Rhys up a mountain to discuss John Evans, the Welsh wanderer who forms the subject of Rhys' great new album American Interior. Coneheads of the world unite!

Yvette

Process

So Much More Than Anything: The Cure’s Disintegration 30 Years On

John Freeman looks back at The Cure's masterpiece - 72 minutes of magnificent self-flagellation, fuelled by Robert Smith's fear of entering his fourth decade.

Chain & The Gang

Minimum Rock N Roll

Virtual Wilderness: An Interview With Olga Bell

On Olga Bell's new album Krai, the Brooklyn-based composer and singer explores the imagined hinterlands of her home country of Russia. She speaks with Ed Power about childhood memories, working with Dirty Projectors and why the album is a work of sonic fiction

Fatima Al Qadiri

Asiatisch

Primary Colours: Faris Badwan Of The Horrors’ Favourite Albums

With their new album Luminous released yesterday, The Horrors' frontman picks out some of his favourite (and, in fact, least favourite) illustrated covers in an artistic Baker's