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Daniel O’Sullivan

Eros

Backed by a 14-piece classical ensemble, the Grumbling Fur member's latest is both rather whimsical and rather beautiful, finds Ed Power

Jungle Just Crushes: Two Fingas on his Novels Chronicling London’s 1990s Ravers

As his novel Bass Instinct returns to print after 30 years as part of a long-overdue reappraisal of his trilogy of books about jungle, bass and rave in 1990s London, Two Fingas speak to Rob Corsini about being one of the few to document the subculture from within

Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)

'The Brown Album' pays testament to the thrilling, sometimes contradictory power of rave as a culture, just months before it splintered, says Joe Muggs

These New Puritans

Crooked Wing

On their fifth album, the brothers Barnett tap into a peculiarly English unusual, channeling their unique romanticism towards new forms of intensity

Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’

In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory

Water Damage

Instruments

Austin-based motorik supergroup (feat. David Grubbs, Patrick Shiroishi and Thor Harris) ascend to the astral plane

Higher Frequencies: Instant Holograms on Metal Film by Stereolab

Stereolab mine the retrofuturistic dreams of late 70s and early 80s synthpop, resulting in a meticulously crafted, cinematic masterpiece, finds Lottie Brazier

The Strange World Of… Editions Mego

It started with the sound of a fridge... Daryl Worthington studies the tributary network of connections that make up Editions Mego via ten of their crucial releases

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

As Peter Murphy releases a new solo album – his first for a decade – the erstwhile Bauhaus frontman looks back at the music that has excited and inspired him, from glam to punk, classical to devotional, jazz to trip hop

Karman Line Collective

To Be

Wolfgang Buttress and friends follow the bees’ lead on an album full of apian tooting, quacking and purring

Pedal Off The Metal: Backxwash Interviewed

Ahead of a much-anticipated slot at this year’s Supersonic Festival, the Canadian-Zambian rapper speaks to Alex Rigotti about her pivot away from industrial beats, the end of her award-winning album trilogy and an embrace of considered craftsmanship on Only Dust Remains. Content warning: this article contains discussions of suicide.

The Chameleons’ What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40

This relatively obscure, nihilistic and resigned second album by a near forgotten Mancunian post punk group was released decades before the birth of writer Lina Adams in the early 00s; so why does it speak so clearly to her life today?

The Fall

Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

The smell of Benson & Hedges ashtrays pervades these early concert recordings, personally selected by the dream team of Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for May Reviewed by Kez Whelan

In his latest guide to the best in metal, Kez Whelan celebrates a return to form from Deafhaven, a career-highlight from Conan, the nebulous world of heavy metal supergroups, and reviews a host of essential new releases

Low Culture Podcast: Doctor Who – The Daemons

In this month’s episode of the pod, John takes Luke to a Wiltshire village for his first introduction to the time-defying Doctor

Goddess

Goddess

Savages' Fay Milton delivers a hymn to 'feminine energy', with guest spots from Salvia, Isabel Muñoz-Newsome, Delilah Holliday and others

The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall

With the release of her new book Small Town Joy: From glam rock to hyperpop: how queer music changed the sound of Scotland, author Carrie Marshall talks to Claire Sawers about growing up in 1970s Lanark, clubbing at Edinburgh's Fire Island and the "seismic" influence of Jimmy Somerville

Reissue of the Week: Shirley Collins’ Sweet England

Jude Rogers finds much to love in a timely reissue of Shirley Collins' first album from 67 years ago... just weeks before her 90th birthday

I’m Being Good

Shapeshitter

Nine albums and the best part of four decades in, the Brighton noiseniks continue to confound and appal in equal measure with a record of brutish riffs and sudden explosions

35 Years On: X-Clan’s To The East Blackwards Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at an album which has as much resonance today as it did when it came out. Article originally published 17/05/2015

Ash Fure

Animal

Award-winning composer strikes at the palpable physical presence of sound

Next Level Electro-Shaabi: Rhlt Jdi by Elkotsh

Elkotsh’s debut LP is a mahraganat colossus with one foot in electro-shaabi's past and one in its future, says Bernie Brooks

The Countercultural Figures who Helped Give Birth to the Neo-Nazi Terrorist Networks of Today

The academic author and political analyst Spencer Sunshine has uncovered disturbing evidence that links musicians Boyd Rice and Nikolas Schreck, writer Michael Moynihan and publisher Adam Parfrey to the current explosion in neo-Nazi terrorism. CW: discussion of racism, anti-semitism, murder, violent assault & child sexual abuse

The Ultimate Fuck You: McAlmont & Butler’s ‘Yes’ Revisited

Mike Drop: Finn Wolfhard’s Favourite Albums

As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the Stranger Things star speaks to Alex Rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste

Cole Pulice

Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver's sax player goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.

Billy Woods

Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts "'n' Roll" to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker

Quinquis

eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

Our Old Friend Robinson: An Interview with Chris Petit

Novelist, flim-maker, psychogeographer Chris Petit talks to Juliet Jacques about his new book Come In and Shut the Door and film D is for Distance

50 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads. This feature was first published 26/07/15