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Redemption In Crapness: Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson’s Inspiration LPs

As Sleaford Mods release new album English Tapas, Jason Williamson guides Hazel Sheffield through the records that inspired him, from Wu-Tang to The Meteors and RZA to The Meteors

While His Synth Gently Beeps: Benge’s Favourite Electronic LPs

We know you all love a bit of synth porn so here's Benge's Baker's Dozen - a sort of synth erotica reading, if you will, as he guides you through 13 electronic favourites from Morton Subotnick to Else Marie Pade and George Harrison's Moog explorations to Air and Autechre. Benge photo by Ed Fielding

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Slow Focus

Kid Eh? Ned Raggett Is Unimpressed With Radiohead Reissues

So EMI have reissued Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief with bonus material and DVDs. Something to be glad about? Not on your nelly says Ned Raggett, Le Homme Du California

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

Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space

As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never

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The Sciences

Stoner titans Sleep 'do a Beyoncé' and surprise release a new album. Dan Franklin packs the chalice & gets down

Spool’s Out: The Best Releases On Tape Cassette This January

2019’s tape scene swerves into murky darkness with j.b. glazer, Jio, Howes, OV PAIN and Swoosh

Death Cab For Cutie Discuss Obama On The Eve Of The Inauguration

"I never thought I’d see anything like it in my life. I have to be honest that I was that jaded and sceptical," Nick Harmer of Death Cab tells Tom Milway

Oxygène Of Collaboration: Jean-Michel Jarre’s Favourite Albums

As he releases his first new material in eight years, the French composer, producer and laser harp maestro talks Yousif Nur through a Baker's Dozen of LPs by artists who shaped or collaborated on his Electronica albums

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Two Suns

The Panpopticon With Amy Pettifer: The Year In Pop

Amy Pettifer recaps 2015 in pop by concentrating on stars, rather than tracks or albums...

Alexander Noice

Noice

Alexander Noice's new record may appear cacophonous and claustrophobic at first glance, but don't let that fool you – it really is cacophonous and claustrophobic, but underneath that, there's some wild pop inventiveness, finds Nick Roseblade

Prophets Of Time: Nik Turner’s Favourite Records

The space rock luminary and former member of Hawkwind, Sphynx and Inner City Unit guides Sean Kitching through 13 instructive and inspirational jazz, rock and soul records that have shaped him and his music

Gorgeous Decay: Liz Harris On Her New Project Nivhek

Liz Harris went through extremes when she went to Murmansk for an artistic residency at the height of the Arctic summer. She talked with our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett about the resultant new album and project. Portrait by JJ Harris