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British Sea Power

From The Sea To The Land Beyond

William Onyeabor

Who Is William Onyeabor?

Crescendo Into Exodus: An Interview With Jar Moff

With the Athens-based sonic collagist's second album for PAN released next week, Matthew Kent catches up with Jar Moff to discuss Financial Glam, mimicking orchestral manoeuvres and becoming lost in music

World Of Twist

Quality Street (Reissue)

Groove Is In The Heart: An Interview With St. Vincent

Annie Clark tells John Freeman how a naked encounter with a rattlesnake, Ambien-induced hallucinations and groove-metallists Pantera all inspired her astonishing new ‘funeral party’ album

Tales Of The Uncanny: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Ahead of her BFI Gothic show, composer, inventor and sound historian Sarah Angliss talks to Stuart Huggett about uncanny presences in music, mechanics and song

A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid’s Lyrical Crime Scene

Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack

R Kelly

Black Panties

Various Artists

Love Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966 To 1972

20 Years On: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Revisited

Simon Price looks back at how the many-headed Staten Island collective brought the motherfucking ruckus

Empathy On The Barricades: Billy Bragg Live

Tariq Goddard watches Billy Bragg live, and argues that you don't need to choose between the songs of love and songs of politics. Photos by Valerio Berdini.

Justified Fascination: Richard H Kirk Of Cabaret Voltaire Interviewed

Did Cabaret Voltaire lose their way when they lost Chris Watson? Far from it, they entered their imperial period... John Doran talks to Richard H Kirk

Two Poems By: Crispin Best

New writing continues in rude health this week with London-based poet and writer Crispin Best

Retrieving The Human: A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

Will Rees examines the harsh truths and disturbing realities presented by Eimear McBride in her Goldsmiths Prize-winning debut novel

Britpop’s Pale Fire: Suede Biographer David Barnett Interviewed

Aug Stone talks to the Suede biographer about the updated edition of Love & Poison

No Cuddly Toy: Nelson Mandela Remembered

David Stubbs looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, and argues that he should remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the twentieth century

“I’m Not Ready To Hang Up My Pop Hat” – Kim Wilde Interviewed

Jude Rogers spends the afternoon with a Metallica, James Blake and Christmas song loving Kim Wilde

Erasure

Snow Globe

Phill Niblock

Touch Five

Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux

Mammatus

Heady Mental

Alex Monk

Indiscreet Mirror

Drexciya

Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller IV

Beyond The Hits: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Jeremy Allen, David Bennun, Julian Marszalek, Erin Lyndal Martin, JR Moores, Jamie Thomson, Luke Turner and John Doran run through some of the finest album tracks, b-sides, session moments, live versions, covers and hits that never were of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' long and illustrious career

Red Yawn: Milius Reviewed

Hear the lamentation of Tony Mckiver as he squares up against a new documentary on Hollywood's most notorious hawk

The Art Of Listening: Marcel Dettmann Interviewed

With Marcel Dettmann's second full-length released earlier this year, Sanjay Fernandes sits down for an in-depth interview with the Berghain resident and iconic techno artist

Gone Fishing: Innovative Documentary Leviathan Reviewed

Patrick Smith takes the plunge and reviews Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s examination of an industrial fishing vessel

Fluxion

Vibrant Forms (Reissue)

Full Clip: October / November’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed

King Of The Beatdowns, Gary Suarez is back with what you've been looking for: hip hop long players reviewed in full

Débruit & Alsarah

Aljawal

Aides-Memoires: Ben UFO Selects 13 Favourite Records

Ahead of Hessle Audio's three-room takeover of Fabric this Friday, the DJ and Hessle Audio co-founder rifles through his record collection and discusses thirteen particular favourites with Rory Gibb

20 Years On: Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle Revisited

Angus Batey looks hard at Snoop's now-canonised debut and questions some of its seriously problematic aspects that continue to be ignored by critics and audiences