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In this month's subscriber only Low Culture essay, Tom Howells reappraises the first three series of River Cottage and finds a Dorset of esoteric rites, ecstatic natural beauty, eldritch haunting, racist gentry and brutal rural pathos, plus a little bit of food
It was supposed to be the moment where the most misunderstood woman in pop got to explain herself and empower her audience: but the release was cancelled and within months she was dead. Angus Batey revisits Lisa Lopes's debut and rediscovers a forgotten treasure
Eight years ago, everyone wanted to know what producer Lewis Roberts' next move would be but then he 'disappeared' into obsessive work on his singular debut album Agor, which has finally surfaced. Luke Turner talks to him about the apocalyptic nature of Cafe del Mar, the alterity of the coast and FKA Twigs
Formed in 2019, the "international all-female metal collective" Chaos Rising have been slowly building up an impressive catalogue of unique collaborative works. Keith Kahn-Harris meets some of the people behind the project and argues that the model it provides has the potential to overturn some of metal’s most enduring institutions
In the second edition of our crime fiction column, Angus Batey reviews new books from John Barlow, James Lee Burke, Nickolas Butler, James Ellroy, Paula Hawkins, and others, while Enrico Monacelli tackles Joseph Knox's latest and the new unfinished book in podcast form from Bret Easton Ellis
Gerald Simpson is an acid house and jungle trailblazer whose groundbreaking releases have defined the course of UK dance music history. He talks to Jaša Bužinel about bringing the avant garde tradition of Sun Ra, Lee "Scratch" Perry and George Clinton into the 21st century, plus his Trip City collaboration