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Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids

“It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?” Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring at 40

Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive

Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed

Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu

Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom

A less Oblique Strategy: reading PVA’s Tarot

Covers Album of the week: Xiu Xiu’s Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1

Been Around The World: The Magical Odyssey Of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You

What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20

All this and Ian McShane too: Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm at 40

Compilation of the Week: When The 2000s Clashed – Machine Music For A New Millennium

Northern Gothic: Jennifer Walton Interviewed

Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno’s Another Green World

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London

The 20th Century Dies: David Bowie, Scott Walker and the 1990s

Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]

Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

Three Album Run: 21st Century Pop Has Never Bettered 4, Beyoncé & Lemonade

Moderate Chaos: Jerskin Fendrix Interviewed

Thriller in England: Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout at 40

“Being Different isn’t Something to Take Lightly”: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed

Reissue Of The Week: Pete Shelley’s Homosapien

Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’

The Strange World of Andy Bell: Erasure & Beyond

Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed

Reissue of the Week: Berserker by Gary Numan

Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand

Do You Know What a Love Letter is? Mike Scott of The Waterboys Interviewed by John Higgs

The Strange World Of… Maher Shalal Hash Baz

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