Despite the predictably & performatively negative reaction the Japanese artist inspires in some critical quarters, it is clear she has been responsible for a cavalcade of bangers over the decades. With a new retrospective at the Tate Modern, Jeremy Allen explores her back catalogue
Noel Gardner delivers ten more frowning bales of intemperate earslaughter, including the perfectly executed anarcho punk of Subdued, the oppressively fucked sound of rising Leeds teenagers Narkotyk, and the feral, bare-brick recordings of Vancouver's Bootlicker
As she releases the first track 'Heels' - which you can listen to below - from a new EP, Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, speaks to Patrick Clarke about class barriers, the fragility of DIY musicianship, and the government's 'sinister' disregard for an industry on the edge of collapse