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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Following two sublime singles, the debut album from Glasgow-based dance music collective Amor captures timeless dancefloor melancholy and Paradise Garage-referencing rhythm, amid twenty-four channels of anaogue bliss. Founding member and acclaimed experimental musician Richard Youngs catches up with John Thorp, and tries not to overthink the groove
Not afraid to challenge their audience, Ulver are currently indulging in a different kind of pop music. Dan Franklin speaks to founding member Kristoffer Rygg about danceable gothic songs, papal conclaves, potent imagery down the centuries, and “sucking on the tit of the wolf mother”. Main Ulver portraits by Ingrid Aas
Everybody's looking for something - but what does Taylor Parkes find when he spends the evening with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks? (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)
As Darren Hayman prepares to release the last instalment of his Thankful Villages project just before the anniversary of the end of WWI, Luke Turner sits down with him to reflect on commemoration, memory, and the celebration of ordinary lives
Before her appearance at next month's Le Guess Who? festival, Maja S. K. Ratkje talks to Russell Cuzner about her wide-ranging work that, whether freely improvised or composed for orchestra, consistently bears the mark of an uncompromising, unconventional spirit
The Icarus Line is dead, but Joe Cardamone lives on. Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, he tells Stevie Chick about his searing new multimedia project, making art in the era of Trump, and how he survived the end of the greatest rock & roll band of his generation. Videos NSFW
In the run-up to the release of their second album, Beheaded Totem, Adam Quarshie spoke to Jonathan Saldanha about growing up in Porto, Indian classical music, surveillance towers, the acoustics of tunnels and the power of marching bands
The Quietus has long been of the opinion that Guttersnipe are one of the most exciting live acts in the UK underground, if not the entire world. Now with debut album My Mother The Vent due out next month on Upset The Rhythm, they have recorded material to match. Kevin McCaighy talks to Urocerus Gigas and Tipula Confusa about their incendiary sound. Garden and living room portraits by Abby Banks
As a composer and sound artist the Danish iconoclast has taken electronic music into new and arcane territories. Ahead of her appearance at Semibreve festival in Portugal she sits down with Jamie Ryder to discuss artistic histories, gut reactions and using human skulls as recording equipment
Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, left-field US rapper JPEGMAFIA talks to Tara Joshi about journalism, Throbbing Gristle and his forthright track, ‘I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies’
The hard-grafting London punk four-piece all work full-time, they tell Jamie Ryder, but they’ve found the time to record a thrilling new full-length and play Thurston Moore’s birthday, among other things. Sauna Youth portrait by Owen Richards
The world’s preeminent “drag terrorist” sits down with Jamie Ryder to discuss her new album, touching on loving Missy Elliott, talking to birds and performance in the age of Trump. Contains NSFW video. All portraits by Michael Sharkey
Ahead of his appearance at Unsound in October, we speak to the 7,000 year-old Rozzma to discuss myths he’d like to correct about modern Egypt, why electro-shaabi is the most exciting thing to have happened to the country in years, and more
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