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Club Members: Julianna Barwick’s Favourite Albums

From very long-term library loans and overnight camp-outs to chance shopping-mall buys and poster-based confusion, the composer gives Gary Kaill the stories behind 13 LPs she's listened to a "bazillion freaking times"

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To Live / Les Nymphes

Misunderstood upon their release at the beginning of the century, these two album by Suicide's synths man now sound full of life, finds Jeremy Allen

Child’s Play: Currents Festival At E-WERK Luckenwalde

After attending E-werk Luckenwalde's Currents festival with her one-year-old in tow, Claire Sawers writes on the delights of experimental arts events where children aren’t just tolerated, but welcomed

In Pursuit Of Restless Beauty: Max Richter’s 13 Favourite LPs

With the release of his deep dive Behind The Counter compilation, composer Max Richter talks to Ed Power about the albums that shaped his musical philosophies and encouraged him to escape the humdrum of suburbia

Heavy Weather: Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6 Music: Live By Sunn O)))

A daytime radio session for Mary Anne Hobbs on 6 Music finds Sunn O))) at their most material and elemental, finds Jon Buckland

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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

Psychic Hi-Fi: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s Favourite Albums

The Quietus catches up with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge to hear about the albums that forced the hand of h/er record player (this piece was republished on the event of GPO's death on 14th March 2020)

WATCH: Laibach ‘Warm Leatherette’

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Terraforma 2016 This July

Ahead of Terraforma near Milan this July, featuring appearances by Biosphere, Lee Gamble and more, we catch up with its director

Not ‘They’ But ‘We’: Music Of The World’s Peoples At 70

The Folkways anthology of 'world music' was now released a lifetime ago but, says Darran Anderson, there is plenty we could still learn from it

Kandodo Announces Debut Album

kandodo for release through Thrill Jockey on 11th June

Arabfuturism: Science-Fiction & Alternate Realities in the Arab World

Arabfuturism is a new and necessary artistic movement for countering the xenophobia and racism of Europe and America, argues Perwana Nazif. Images from A Space Exodus by Larissa Sansour, courtesy of the artist

We Are All Space Junk: The Membranes Live in Tallinn

Tristan Bath travels to Tallinn Estonia, to witness the true exploratory nature of post punk still in action as The Membranes, the Sireen choir and a CERN scientist collide

Horns Up Ya Shitters! July’s Best Metal Reviewed

Toby Cook has run out of things to say about drugs! Luckily it's a bumper month of releases from Om, Testament, Bestial Holocaust and more...

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your guide to the best in brand new punk and hardcore returns, with Noel Gardner picking out ten top-tier ragers from the likes of Lathe Of Heaven, Abism, Stigmatism, Mock Execution, Gender Is The Bastard and more. Homepage photo: Stress Positions, photo by Ricardo Adame,