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Dublin's Girl Band tore through Quietus HQ earlier this year with their unhinged and brilliant cover of Blawan's 'Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage'. Paul Tucker met them to discuss the quirks of self-recording and why they're infuriated by Nirvana comparisons
On their newly released debut album Carlisle's neo-psych trainwreckers The Lucid Dream inject their music with equal parts pop-suss and blistering noise. The band's Mark Emmerson speaks with Ben Graham about avoiding psychedelia's stereotypical trappings and working in isolation
Last week, Atoms For Peace took their Drawing Room shop and installation to the Enterprise in Camden, and brought album AMOK alive in the Camden Roundhouse. Dan Richards reports. Live photographs by Valerio Berdini, Drawing Room by Dan Richards.
What is it in the abandoned car parks and the landscape of the West of Ireland that, right now, makes it such a fertile place for out-there sounds? Ian Maleney reviews some recent releases, and previews upcoming live events in our second Rum Music West Of Ireland special
With his recent DRKLNG mixtape, New York rapper Zebra Katz followed up last year's freakily infectious 'Ima Read' in similarly sinister, sub-loaded style. Laura Snoad met up with him to discuss investigations of language and the eternal appeal of bass