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Song To The Siren: An Extract From New Chemical Brothers Book

Paused In Cosmic Reflection is first official book by and on The Chems. Here we offer an exclusive early look at a chapter on their early days in Manchester. Band portrait by Hamish Brown

Fovea Hex Release New Single

Clodagh Simonds' new single I:I:XII Hail Hope available now

Sote

Sound System Persepolis

Ata Ebtekar's latest re-imagines the Iranian landscape as an ecstatic sonic geography

Overlapping Terrain: Richard Skelton’s Favourite Music

Following the release of his new album LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM, the prolific Richard Skelton speaks to Luke Turner about the music that inspired his own work, from Thomas Tallis to Phuture, Nico to Sly & The Family Stone, The Stooges and Gorecki

Sam Evian

Time to Melt

The third album from Figure 8 Studios former inhouse engineer, has all the grooves and breaks in the right places but the studio takes the front seat, finds Jeremy Allen

Prince Estate Shares Previously Unreleased Track, ‘Cosmic Day’

It's lifted from the forthcoming super deluxe reissue of 'Sign O' The Times'

Chris Watson

El Tren Fantasma

Dais Reveals Reissue Of Coil’s ‘Musick To Play In The Dark²’

The label reissued the first instalment in the series in November 2020

Elevate Your Mind: Seun Anikulapo Kuti’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of Black Times, his fourth album with Egypt '80, Seun Anikulapo Kuti guides Richie Troughton through a selection of 13 revolutionary, spiritual and mystical albums that have inspired him.

Wot No Jazz Funk?! Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Favourite Records

As Cosey Fanni Tutti releases one of the albums of the year thus far, she sits down with Luke Turner to discuss 13 records that shaped her, from the soundtrack to pre-COUM hippy days in Hull to the present day

On Feminism & The Female Body In Kim Kardashian’s Selfish

Aimee Cliff considers the valuable and radical nature of Kim Kardashian's Selfish, the reclaiming of herself (and her Self) from the media, what it means to be a perfect feminist and whether that matters

A Blank Page Gives Me Freedom: Orhan Pamuk Interviewed

The Turkish Nobel Literature Laureate speaks in-depth to Kevin Perry about his reluctant role as the voice of a generation

25 Years On: Blade’s The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength Revisited

Half a lifetime ago, an Armenian exiled to London set the template for today's DIY musicians and raised a standard that British rap has rarely reached since. Angus Batey had a ring-side seat while Blade fought to make himself heard: he looks back on a landmark in the history of independent music