Black Midi are back with a second album that defies most (if not all) expectations people have of the band. They talk to Dan Dylan Wray about abandoning the jam, embracing the melody and picking up the wok. Home page photograph by Yis Kid
Exploring - and taking as a yardstick - Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Paul Wolinski considers the apparent paralysis of contemporary culture and the slow cancellation of the future through the lens of the success and failures of advances in electronic music production