Vymethoxy Redspiders, aka Urocerus Gigas of Guttersnipe, has recorded what will probably become the year's most striking album, Psychonautic Escapism. Mariam Rezaei talks to her about a "synaesthetic acid bath" of grind, trance, hyperpop, shoegaze and breakcore
As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.