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LISTEN: Exclusive Resina Mixtape

The Warsaw-based cellist puts together an exclusive mix featuring music from "friends and collaborators" amongst others

A Gift: Watch Donovan In Conversation & Unplugged

The Sunshine Superman and tQ Ed John Doran chew the fat in front of a live audience about colours, flowers, transcendental meditation and the ethical placation of children, before the former plays some songs and the latter shirks his duties as backing singer. Homepage photograph courtesy of Louise Mason

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

Donato Dozzy & Eva Geist Team Up For Album On Raster

'Il Quadro Di Troisi' is a collaboration between Raster and Terraforma festival

Wrapper’s Decline: Why Spotify Wrapped And Apple Music Replay Are Battling To Be “The John Lewis Ad” Of Annual Roundups

Regaining Control: An Interview With Stalking Horse

Neil Widdop, formerly of Leeds post-punk crew This Et Al, returned this year as Stalking Horse with debut album Specters. Simon Jay Catling caught up with him to talk the risks and myths of the music industry

Shields Against The World: Mat Osman’s Baker’s Dozen

From growing up on The Carpenters to reconnecting with music in his "wilderness years" Suede bassist turned novelist Mat Osman takes Luke Turner through his Baker's Dozen of favourite recordings

Robert Hood Teams Up With Dekmantel

Veteran techno producer lines up three EPs and an album for the Dutch label

Optimo Music To Release Compilation Of Anarcho-Punk

'Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979​-​86' collects tracks by Crass, Chumbawamba and more

Overmono Detail Third EP Of 2021, ‘Diamond Cut / Bby’

It's out in November on XL

Help Kickstart St Thomas Documentary

Lend your support to a documentary about Norwegian musician St Thomas

Do You Have the Force? Jon Savage’s Alternate History of Electronic Music, 1978–82

Various Artists

A compilation of space age prog and disco novelties curated by Jon Savage recalls an era when the future was still something to look forward to

Finlay Shakespeare

Domestic Economy

The debut album from Bristol musician and synth builder Finlay Shakespeare is a wild and restless triumph

Stop Making Scents: Jessica Hausner On Botanical Thriller ‘Little Joe’

Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner returns with a prickly sci-fi hybrid to give Invasion of the Body Snatchers a run for its money. Nick Chen meets the filmmaker to find out about anti-cinema and whether there really is such a thing as happiness

The Archivist: Mark Webber of Pulp’s Baker’s Dozen

From his first discovery of The Velvet Underground to a cruise with Father John Misty, via mixtapes personally compiled for him by Spacemen 3 and encounters with Alex Chilton, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through his favourite records

Juanita Stein

The Weightless Hour

Former Howling Bells singer/guitarist returns with a radically different, stripped-back sound