Catch up on our latest writing.
James Holden’s excellent new album, Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities, is out next month on his own Border Community label. John Doran speaks to him about the etymology of the word trance, the evolutionary purpose of music and maintaining a sense of radical optimism
Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire
In their first interview about their fourth album False Lankum, Ian and Daragh Lynch, Radie Peat and Cormac Mac Diarmada speak to Patrick Clarke about Lankum's ever-intensifying extremities, transcendence through music, and their relationship to folk tradition