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Finding Hope: Charles Hazlewood, Brett Anderson & The Paraorchestra Interviewed
The Paraorchestra is a collaboration between disabled and non-disabled musicians, composer Charles Hazlewood and singers including Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah. Anderson, Hazlewood and Paraorchestra members speak to Jude Rogers about the strange joy in singing songs about death. Photos by Kirsten McTernan
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Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed
At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?
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“We’re Taking Control” – Former The Fall Members On New Release ‘Slates (Live)’
Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Paul Hanley and Steve Hanley speak to Daniel Dylan Wray about a new release of archive recordings capturing Slates performed live in its entirety, how it’s helping them regain agency in a world awash with ropey Fall bootlegs, and what Mark E. Smith might have made of their plans
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Basic Exploration: An Interview With Apartment House
Apartment House leader Anton Lukoszieveze discusses 30 years of combining intricate compositions with a straightforward approach, the band’s performance of Nico’s The Marble Index at this month’s Bristol New Music, and the importance of beekeeping
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Loving The Alien: Einstürzende Neubauten Interviewed
When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their most coherent yet varied body of work so far. Frontman Blixa Bargeld tells Wesley Doyle how biological determinism, public improvisation and feather boas all fed into its creation
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Sound Bath Loud: An Interview With Big Brave
Having reached a peak of heavy music on last year’s Nature Morte, Montreal’s Big Brave speak to Patrick Clarke about embracing the intensity of quietness on new album A Chaos Of Flowers, and how taking lyrical influence from long-dead poets provided deep political resonance
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No Fucks Left To Give? Arab Strap Interviewed
“The internet is literally Thatcher’s Dream: an entire society of strangers out there working for themselves.” Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back and – despite their protestations, says Elizabeth Aubrey – they patently care now more than ever
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Dignity & Labour: Fat White Family Interviewed
Arrests in Algeria, family blood feuds, unreleasable drone music, permanently broken friendships, magic mushroom vomit... Fat White Family may be poised to release a brilliant new album Forgiveness Is Yours, but as he reveals to Daniel Dylan Wray, the stress of keeping the show on the road is becoming too much for Lias Saoudi. All portraits by Louise Mason
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Love In the Present: Julia Holter Interviewed
The sixth record from Julia Holter is a layered and heartfelt exploration of the sublime everyday. Ahead of her performance at Rewire Festival next month, she talks to Skye Butchard about its difficult creation, parallel soundtrack projects, and the attention economy in the streaming era
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Even Later: Dali De Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling Interviewed
A year after their gloriously nightmarish session for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, the two improvisers are finally sharing the recordings that didn’t make the airwaves... and taking their blistering show on the road. They speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about birdsong, fear, and their new audio-visual shows backed by the Outlands Network
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Guestlist For The Armageddon: An Interview With Lynks
Lynks takes Bella Spratley through his journey from a Bristol basement party dressed in binbags and rubber gloves to next month’s dizzying debut album Abomination, and talks fluidity, anger, representation and more. Photos by Mars Washington
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Embrace The Worm: An Interview With One Leg One Eye
Lankum’s Ian Lynch speaks to Patrick Clarke about his solo project One Leg One Eye, how debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me helped him through a period of personal turmoil, why Lankum’s Mercury nomination made him feel “dirty”, and his return to Supersonic Festival this summer
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Epic Proportions: An Interview With PoiL Ueda
A collaboration between psychedelic French band PoiL and Japanese traditional musician Junko Ueda, inspired by a 12th century sea battle and its aftermath, resulted in not one, but two of the best albums of last year. Ahead of a performance at Tremor Festival next month, they speak to David McKenna
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Angel Children: Alison Cotton Interviewed
The experimental drone folk artist talks to Alex Rigotti about her new album Engelchen which tells the incredible story of Ida and Louise Cook who used their love of opera to save the lives of Jewish people endangered by German Nazis during the 1930s. Home page portrait by William Lacalmontie
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Sadness & Hope: The Harrowing Journey Of Mohammad Syfkhan
John Doran talks to bouzouki player, folk singer and Syrian emigrant Mohammad Syfkhan about his astounding album, I Am Kurdish, and considers what it means to be an Irish musician. With thanks to Willie Stewart and Cormac MacDiarmada. CW: contains biographical details that may cause distress
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Maybe It’s Because He’s A Londoner? Danny Brown Interviewed
Jesse Bernard spots Detroit rapper Danny Brown at an Arsenal match, sees him play live in Shoreditch, and then interviews him about just how deep his love for grime goes (and his recent experiences in and out of rehab and one of last year's finest albums, Quaranta). All photographs by Peter Beste
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Destination – Void: An Interview With Roly Porter
Since his steel-plated dubstep duo Vex'd disbanded, Roly Porter has been exploring post-human wastelands, folk forms and sensual electronics. In advance of a London show next week, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about last year's debut album Aftertime and working in solitude
