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“It’s Entertainment, You Know?” Trevor Horn’s Favourite Albums

Producer and innovator Trevor Horn guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite albums, telling tales of how Kraftwerk led him to breaking the Official Secrets Act and tripping to Yes

Baker's Dozen

13 Different Ways: Nik Colk Void Of Factory Floor’s Favourite LPs

As Factory Floor release their debut album, we speak to Nik Colk Void about musical re-education and her favourite 13 LPs. They're a noisy bunch...

Album of the Week

Uncanny Valley: Moot! By Moin

Tomaga's Valentina Magaletti teams up with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead to produce an album of post-rock grooves pent up with urban unease – a compelling combination, finds Alec Holt

Baker's Dozen

Finding Thrills: Georgia’s Favourite Albums

Georgia takes Jessica Wrigglesworth through the thirteen albums that shaped her life, from her love of Fever Ray, The Cure and Hudson Mohawke, to how Shuggie Otis inspired new album Euphoric

Black Sky Thinking

The Deathly 90s, Corbyn & An Old Post Punk Hails A New Counterculture

Many of the post-punk generation like to sit on Facebook moaning about how the LOL-addled youth of today lack the political gumption of their forebears. David Stubbs, on the other hand, got stuck in making fanzines with a bunch of teenagers and found that a new generation are far from apathetic

Baker's Dozen

Stewart Lee Selects His Favourite 13 Albums

Comedian Stewart Lee talks to Simon Jablonski about his thirteen albums of all time, including The Fall (obviously), Ted Chippington, Guided By Voices, REM (who are a disappointment) and why Miles Davis and jazz are like stand-up

Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For June By Daryl Worthington

Daryl Worthington dives into the glorious mess of the tape scene, finding mucky ambient, finding kosmiche architecture, aquarium jazz, and room bending dance music

News

New Order Detail ‘Substance 1987’ Reissue

The classic compilation has been remastered, and will feature alongside additional rarities and a previously unreleased live recording

Baker's Dozen

Main F**king Event: Adrian Flanagan Of The ERC’s Favourite LPs

In the week of release for their second album, one of The Eccentronic Research Council's musical maestros writes us an "autobiographical chronological" journey through his life in listening

News

The Icarus Line: New Mini Album

Avowed Slavery slated for release in July

News

Could A Long-Lost Neil Young Album Be Coming?

The album was originally recorded in 1976

Baker's Dozen

Silver Linings: Tamara Lindeman’s Baker’s Dozen

From her challenging relationship with Joni Mitchell to the picks from the thriving music community in her native Toronto, The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman takes Zara Hedderman through thirteen albums that shaped her songwriting

Album of the Week

Tender Cyborg: Bid Farewell To The Flesh With Róisín Machine

Róisín Murphy returns with an album of dancefloor utopias and more-than-human bodies, finds Diva Harris

Baker's Dozen

A Heartbeat That Resonates: Ghetto Priest’s Favourite Albums

From The Jackson 5 and Nat King Cole to John Holt and Dennis Brown, this is the baker's dozen of albums that shaped Ghetto Priest

News

TOY Set For New East End Live Festival

East End Film Festival gets new one-day music event, with TOY, Teeth Of The Sea and more on the bill

Reviews

Jordy
The Love Ting

Love is a brilliant thing and Essex by-way-of Tottenham rapper, Jordy, encapsulates all of its peaks and troughs with his latest EP, The Love Ting

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“It’s Entertainment, You Know?” Trevor Horn’s Favourite Albums