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Bakers Dozen: Joy Division & New Order’s Stephen Morris On His Top 13 Albums

Today, Stephen Morris steps up to The Quietus's Bakers Dozen challenge as he tells us all about his favourite 13 albums

The Smiths

The Sound of The Smiths

Eschewing Pop Ideology: An Interview With Grimes

Karl Smith talks to Grimes' Claire Boucher about collaboration, isolation, creation out of necessity and why listening to Art Angels should feel like watching The Godfather

Raw Functionality: An Interview With Emptyset

Using effects, processors and old buildings as resonance chambers, Emptyset's stripped-down electronic music plays tricks with space and time. They speak to Rory Gibb about new EP Collapsed, hardware imprinting and allowing machines to take control

Tate Modern to Host Listening Party for Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works Volume II’

The classic album has just been given an expanded reissue by Warp Records

Coming Clean: George McFall Drops His Disguise

For his new album (which streams in full below), George McFall has reverted to his given name, overcoming the need for an alias like Clean George IV. He has also reined in the rock guitars in favour of a more severe synth-driven sound, and found a new target for his sharp satire: himself. Photo by Kimi Gill

Conservation Of Momentum: An Interview With Blanck Mass

As Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power evokes sprawling images of an Earth reclaimed by nature. He speaks to Charlie Fox about soundtracking the Olympic Opening Ceremony and Werner Herzog

Phill Niblock

Touch Five

Our Week In Spotify Bangers No. 2

The second in our Spotify playlists linking what we've been writing about with some music to delight the ears

By Process Of Iteration: An Interview With Kiran Leonard

John Freeman meets up with the prodigiously talented Kiran Leonard to talk about the next two follow-up albums to debut Bowler Hat Soup and the continual quest to define his sound

Alex Webster Of Cannibal Corpse On Home Cooking

Hide your tender suckling children, Cannibal Corpse's Alex Webster is in the house & feeling hungry! But, as he tells Toby Cook, these days he's all about food processing and a balanced diet

Tarkamt

1100 dB

Cairo's Tarkamt threatens to create a black hole big enough to engulf the universe with a set of Merzbowian electronics

Metal Confection & Computer Love: An Interview With Laurel Halo

Rory Gibb talks to Laurel Halo about her new EP Hour Logic, modern science and the influence of Detroit's musical heritage

A Life Bizarre: Sheila E Interviewed

Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)

Colin Self Unveils New EP for RVNG Intl., ‘Lemniscate’

It marks the Berlin and New York-based multi-disciplinary artist's first new material since 2018

Start With the Noise: The Unlikely Return of The Wolfgang Press

With a post punk pedigree that stretches back to the origins of 4AD, The Wolfgang Press have made their first album for nearly 30 years, and the only thing it has in common with its predecessors is that it sounds nothing like them, they tell Wesley Doyle