New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain in Review for April by Noel Gardner

From mangled folk music to ever-evolving electroacoustic techno jams inspired by Hackney Marshes, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the sounds of New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain in Review for March by Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's latest dispatch from the undergrowth features weird grime, Super Nintendo cartridges, an anti-music Napalm Death covers LP, a scorching bagpipe/saxophone drone and much much more

New Weird Britain in Review for January by Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner kicks off another year in the undergrowth of New Weird Britain with an eclectic selection of thick psychedelia, inchoate delirium, dreamy folksong and sesh gremlin techno

New Weird Britain in Review for October by Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, from watery worldbuilding hip-pop to isolationist, field recording-embellished ambient dub sessions

New Weird Britain in Review for August by Noel Gardner

From archive recordings of Notting Hill Carnival soundsystems to free-percussion improvisations from a Todmorden primary school, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the sounds of New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain in Review for June by Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner brings us artificial birdsong, real birdsong, a metal nail hammered up a nostril, and a big set of technoise gloomsteppers in his latest report from the British fringes

New Weird Britain In Review For April By Noel Gardner

Disassembled slowcore! Spandex-stretchy heroic jamming! Grubbily shimmering disco-techno! Your guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For February By Noel Gardner

Your New Weird Britain roundup returns, bringing you sauntering goth-house, watery electronics and an album released via a flowerpot

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

The return of Creation Rebel, the long-awaited full release of a 90s video game soundtrack classic, a pleasingly non-literal tribute to The Wicker Man and more all feature in your latest guide to the world of New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

Partially severe synth pop! Monster truck basslines! A chatbot tribute to John Coltrane! Your guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Psychedelic noizegaze and fractal deathyowl electro! Air-thinning drone immensity! Basslines they should store in old phone boxes in case the defibrillator doesn’t work! It could only be the return of your regular New Weird Britain roundup, courtesy of Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

From spannered metallic dungeon durge to a crucial chute of rave sludge, your guide to the best from the fringes of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner returns with his latest round-up of New Weird Britain's boldest and brightest new releases, reviewing music from Helena Celle, Kate Carr, Mantra and more

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

Your guide to the essential new releases from New Weird Britain returns, with jazz-into-techno impulsion sessions, feverish drone-doom and rickety synthpop in tow

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Your guide to the most weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

From scornful Liverpudlian frostwave to a cosmic and molluscular journey through time and space, your guide to the finest sounds in New Weird Britain returns for another month

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner travels the highroads and byroads of these fair and foul isles in search of sonic sustenance for summer

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

More weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground as described by Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, with extraordinary bursts of melody from Margate-via-Maine, the Bristolian blurring lines between techno and noise, fizzy meteorites of party-smashing illbience and more

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

The selections Noel Gardner has made from the UK DIY underground this month are so good they have started to dissolve the very concept of time

New Weird Britain: The UK’s Best Underground Music Of 2021

New Weird Britain In Review For October By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner unearths some East Sussex noise, the world's first modular acoustic synth, RAF early warning techno, and other odd gems from the British DIY underground

New Weird Britain In Review For August By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner romps through Summer with a veritable NWB greatest hits... Home page photo: Lucy Railton and Kit Downes by Cristina Marx/Photomusic

New Weird Britain In Review For June By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner marks the middle of the year with a solstice selection of wyrd music from the UK DIY underground. Main photograph: Ahrkh

New Weird Britain In Review For April By Noel Gardner

From a read along sci-fi Italo/prog epic to rebooted darkside rave and juke via earthy Cornish analogue electronics, Noel Gardner is back once again with more tantalising sounds from the UK sonic fringes

New Weird Britain In Review For February By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's first New Weird Britain column for 2021 looks at what it means to be an international artist currently trapped in London/ Britain by the pandemic and what this means for their practice

New Weird Britain: The Best Of 2020

In the first of our end of year columns, Noel Gardner casts his eye back over 12 months of highs and lows in the fertile UK DIY underground, and selects 20 transmissions you need to hear

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with another dispatch from the bristling & thriving UK DIY underground

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

So much more than a microscopically small bolthole of distraction! Noel Gardner is back with more new and weird sounds

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with reviews of new releases by Laura Cannell, Charles Hayward, Ashtray Navigation and more

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

Cometh the weird hour, cometh the writer with (relatively) weird tastes. Noel Gardner is back with a clutch of reviews that run from exo-generational metallers Haq 123 to the monster truck psych out of The Domestiques

New Weird Britain This March Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner writes in praise of sticking together, plus new releases from Slum Of Legs, Noods and Handle