WATCH: New Black Midi Video

'Ducter' features on the band's debut album which is out today

Akiko Yano Album To Be Reissued

A 1981 album by Akiko Yano, co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto, is to be reissued

Harmonic Worlds: Colin Newman’s 13 Favourite Albums

The Immersion, Wire and Githead founder member chooses a list that goes from minimalism to maximalism, via Steve Reich, LFO and Todd Rundgren, and tells Ben Graham how Britpop was rubbish but The Beatles have never sounded better

These Vibrated Me: Josh T. Pearson’s Favourite Music

Josh T. Pearson guides Nick Hutchings through the personally sacred songs of his Baker's Dozen, from the Bad Seeds to Gorecki, Spiritualized to MBV and why Texas ranchers were no fan of Morrissey's work ethic

Editors

In This Light And On This Evening

Pidgins

Refrains of the Day, Volume 1

Mexico City residents Aaron With and Milo Tamez hack boardroom vernaculars to disquieting ends, finds Daryl Worthington

Auditory Transcriptions: The Strange World Of… Lawrence English

Over twenty years of creating immersive soundscapes and joining forces with the finest musicians and composers across the globe, Lawrence English shows no signs of slowing down. He speaks to Brendan Telford about the aural ley lines that have led him on this journey

Tempel

The Moon Lit Our Path

It’s Alive! Fucked Up Discuss Their Punk Opera David Comes To Life

Brad Sanders talks to Fucked Up's Sandy Miranda about their new 78 minute opus, challenging pretensions and why concept albums are unfairly dismissed. Photo by Daniel Boud

John Carpenter

Lost Themes II

The Moments of Rupture: Andy Abbott on Composing Music for Psychiatric Wards

Andy Abbott speaks to Kat Lister his new album as ADRA, born from his work as a creative practitioner on psychiatric wards, how working with service users challenged preconceptions about who experimental music is 'for', and how it's changed his own creative philosophy moving forward

Jane Weaver Ambient Project To Release LP

The new project's first album references Marcell Jankovic's 1981 animated fantasy of the same name

INTERVIEW: Darren Hayman

Essex native Darren Hayman tells us about his new album The Violence, which takes the county's 17th century witch trials as its subject matter

A Long Term Effect: Tim Pope On Four Decades Of Work With The Cure

Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett chats with Pope about his forthcoming Cure concert film Anniversary as well as more unusual anecdotes about his many music videos for them than you can shake a stick at. Or is that a sock?

NSRD

The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

From 1980s Latvia, a wonky, lovely agitpop gem

Ocular Spectacular: Liam Gallagher And Andy Bell Of Beady Eye Interviewed

Julian Marszalek meets the first of the Gallagher brothers (and his trusty second in command) out of the post Oasis starting gates and finds him in combative mood