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LISTEN: Stream Plastikman’s New LP

EX released digitally today ahead of Sónar appearance

Paddy Hanna

Frankly, I Mutate

Amid the pageantry and performance, we find only honesty on Paddy Hanna's superb new album

Pessimist

Pessimist

A drum & bass record of tantalising intensity from Kristian Jabs

Hyper-Personal: Holly Herndon Interviewed

As Holly Herndon releases her second album proper, Platform, Christian Eede speaks to her about drawing on personal experiences and why collaboration is important to offering an optimistic alternative to cynicism. All photographs by Al Overdrive

LISTEN: New These New Puritans

These New Puritans return with first new song in five years

Carla Bozulich

Boy

Radiohead Versus The Release Schedule

If illegal downloading is killing music, asks Wyndham Wallace, why don’t record labels just let us buy it earlier?

Mozart Estate

Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping

Lawrence returns with an encyclopaedic tour through 70s pop styles (complete with dance moves)

The Perfect Sentence: Tariq Goddard’s Favourite Storytelling Songs

Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard chooses thirteen songs that have defined his life, with a focus on the musical storytellers who inspired him to tell tales of his own from The Kinks to Ice T

A New Dance: Dele Sosimi’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his new album You No Fit Touch Am earlier this year, the Fela and Femi Kuti collaborator, lecturer and exponent of all things Afrobeat gives Richie Troughton a playback of his all-time top 13 LPs

Swans

We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head

Channelling From Some Other Place: Richard Thompson Interviewed

Following the release of his 21st album, Electric, earlier this year, Richard Thompson talks to Tariq Goddard about why he prefers living in the suburbs, sidestepping 60s excess and his relationship with his back catalogue

Lee Ranaldo

Between The Times And The Tides

Shabazz Palaces

Black Up

Classic Dubstep-Era Music To Feature On Hotflush Comp

Scuba marks five years since the end of his SUB:STANCE party at Berghain with a compilation featuring unreleased Shackleton, Untold and more