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The Pleasure Of Discomfort: Siavash Amini’s Favourite Music

Siavash Amini discusses his 13 favourite albums with Jennifer Lucy Allan, including the power of romanticism, weeping over the death of Leonard Cohen, and why Nils Frahm has a lot to answer for. Photo by Selma Pour-Amin

Smashing Pumpkins

Oceania

Karl Hyde

Edgeland

Reissue Of The Week: An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World 2

Malvika Padin explores the latest Habibi Funk release and considers the thorny issue of diversity in compilation curation

WATCH: Ted Milton – Let Them Be

Video for Blurt main man's upcoming 7" on Blank Editions

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow

Inner Ear: Czech Music For October Reviewed by Jakub Knera

In the fourth part of his report on the contemporary music of Eastern and Central Europe, Jakub Knera digs into the Czech Republic's experimental and avant garde music scene and finds a creative community alive with psychedelic sounds

LISTEN: Double Dagger – Heretic’s Hymn

Get hold of this seven-minute swansong from the much-missed Baltimore punks' final LP 333, set for release below

Why Everything Is Love Is Tidal’s Last Desperate Throw Of The Dice

This weekend, Jay-Z and Beyoncé released joint album Everything Is Love exclusively via their Tidal platform. But with the record already on Spotify, Eamonn Forde argues that this is yet another vain lunge by the 1% and a platform that is failing to take off

Rockumentary Celebrates The Genius Of Jesse Hector

True rock & roll spirit has his time in the Hammersmith Gorillas and Crushed Butler celebrated in new film. Watch trailer here.

Kiran Leonard

Derevaun Seraun

Inspired by Manchester Central Library, and by Joyce, Camus and Lispector among others, Kiran Leonard's new album wears its influences lightly.