Track-by-Track

Penny Rimbaud On Crass & The Poets Of Transcendentalism & Modernism

In the second of our Crass features, Alex Burrows talks to Penny Rimbaud about religion, poetry and why today's youth aren't apathetic

Marta Salogni Reveals Collaborative LP With Tom Relleen

The pair recorded the album shortly before Relleen's death from cancer in 2020

In Fair England: Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief At 50

Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class and gender but one that was also positive and questing, says Michael Hann

Slim Twig

A Hound At The Hem (Reissue)

From Death Factory To Norfolk Fens: Chris & Cosey Interviewed

As we continue our series of Mute Short Circuit previews, Luke Turner talks to Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti about their lives and work together. Photograph taken by Chris and Cosey in their home studio

Moses Sumney

Aromanticism

The Californian singer takes an ethereal journey into solitude

Bringing Out The Dead: New York Dolls On Their Highs And Lows

Mark Eglinton meets living legends Sylvain Sylvain and David Johansen of New York Dolls. Photo courtesy of Max Lakner

Fishy Tales: Rodrigo Fuentes’ Trout, Belly Up

The debut collection of short fiction by the award-winning Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Fuentes gets its English translation by Ellen Jones

Is Stockhausen’s Licht The Most Bonkers Operatic Spectacle Ever?

This week, one day of Stockhausen's week-long opera Licht comes to London's Southbank Centre. Bobby Barry explores the history and significance of one of the greatest and most outlandish musical spectacles the world has ever seen. Photos by Meng Phu

The Strange World Of… Madlib

Eden Tizard takes a look behind the bewildering array of aliases and the huge back catalogue in order to ask, who is Madlib?

JOYFULTALK

Familiar Science

JOYFULTALK goes free jazz on new album, *Familiar Science*