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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Goth Week continues goth vicar the Reverend Alex Gowing-Cumber tells us about his life living with a serious disability, faith, setting up a church in a Soho sex shop, and how mainstream Christianity can learn a lot from alternative cultures. As told to Luke Turner.
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
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
As Memorials Of Distinction's ‘house band’ SUEP release their debut mini-album, Josh Cohen tells the story of his label and management company's rise from scrappy roots in Brighton’s DIY scene to a connecting point for some of the most exciting musicians in Britain
After a decade of side quests and splinter projects and the tragic loss of a bandmate, West Sussex hip hop foursome 404 Guild have finally released their debut album. They speak to Cian Kinsella about why now is the time for their long-awaited full length project
As Warp reissues its foundational Artificial Intelligence compilation, Daniel Dylan Wray explores the record's making, impact and legacy, plus the complicated legacy of IDM via interviews with artists featured on the album, other key players, journalists and more
The nine-piece folk ensemble Shovel Dance Collective speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their bold new album exploring the extremes of humanity’s relationship with water, and why progression and tradition need not be opposites
Bingo Fury speaks to Isabel Armitage about creating an atonal melting pot in the middle ground between Neil Young and John Cage, the influence of his native Bristol after dark, and whether or not it is finally time to quit Spotify
Sarathy Korwar speaks to Patrick Clarke about how Indo-futurism, a colonialist critique of Thomas More’s Utopia, and the invention of his own new circular rhythm system have pushed his practise forwards on ambitious new album KALAK
On the release of a new album that draws links between club music and the traditional sounds of his native Poland, Naphta speaks to Mariia Ustimenko about being an Eastern European artist under the Western gaze, issues of appropriation and more
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