Flaming Lips

King's Mouth

The fifteenth album by the Flaming Lips started life as an art installation, playing inside a giant metallic head. Should it have stayed there, wonders Zara Hedderman?

Fela Kuti And London’s “Underground Spiritual Game”

Attending London's recent Felebration — a fairly Ronal portmanteau celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti — Lottie Brazier finds a performance rightly reverent of history even as it creates new meaning for all involved, and an event which, in our current Right-lurching climate, is both necessary and in danger of disappearing

Music Is My Saviour: Melanie C’s Favourite Albums

Melanie C guides Emma Garland through 13 favourite records in Bakers' Dozen stories from being blessed by Keith from the Prodigy to stage invading a Blur gig, with love for Madonna, Oasis, Fiona Apple and much more along the way

Let’s Eat Grandma

Two Ribbons

Let's Eat Grandma's latest may be less out there, but it's the songs that shine through, finds Austin Nguyen

Unsound Details ‘Intermission’ Book And Compilation

The album features a collaboration between Jlin and the late SOPHIE, alongside music from Ben Frost, Chris Watson and more

Quietus Competition: Win Tickets To See Starkey

One pair of tickets to The Z-Shed up for grabs

Perfume Genius

Too Bright

Chapel Club

Palace

LISTEN: The Horrors – So Now You Know

Second track from new album Luminous

Ryuichi Sakamoto Details First Album In Six Years, ’12’

The 12-track release is out on Sakamoto's 71st birthday in January

Lost Crowns

The Heart is in the Body

Six years in the making, Lost Crowns’ second album is a stunning feat of complex composition that takes their prog folk sound into bold new territory, finds Sean Kitching

LISTEN: The Best New Polish Music From Nowa

Tristan Bath visits Tauron Nowa Muzyka festival and reports back on some of the most exciting artists in the Polish underground