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Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

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Let’s Do The Time Warp: Shell~Wave by Surgeon

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The Strange World of Andy Bell: Erasure & Beyond

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Everything is Permitted: Alamut by Laibach

Baker's Dozen

A Belly Full: Tanya Donelly’s Favourite Albums

Baker's Dozen

It’s All Expression: Matt Berry’s Favourite Albums

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Live Reviews

Look Back In Stavanger – We Visit Norway For Serena-Maneesh’s Festival Among The Mountains

Our man with a well-thumbed passport, Chris Roberts, disembarks in Norway. He is there to find an alternative music festival featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serena-Maneesh but ends up with kamerad & spelemann as well.

Film

Accidents Of Evocation: COI + Mordant Music = MisinforMation Explored

Kevin Mccaighy revisits this disquieting DVD featuring audio by Baron Mordant set to visuals from the Central Office of Information, originally available through specialist outlets and now reissued by the BFI

News

Wire Tour Begins Tomorrow

Support from improvisation collective Xaviers; dates below

Live Reviews

Galloping Free: Patti Smith Live At Field Day, By Chris Roberts

A sunlit summer park in East London might be a million miles from grimy 1970s New York, but Chris Roberts finds true wonder in Patti Smith's performance of Horses on the Quietus/EYOE main stage at Field Day. There's life in the old nag that is rock & roll yet. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Baker's Dozen

Chewed Corners: Mike Paradinas’ Favourite Records

The pioneering electronic musician familiarly known as μ-Ziq, Planet Mu label founder and one half of Heterotic - who have just released their second album, Weird Drift - gives Joe Clay his potted biography in 13 top records

Rum Music

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Guitar solos, shouted song from Uyghur folk traditions, a French duo under one name and a Quebecois miscellany in the first Rum Music outing of 2024, reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Film

All Hell Broke Loose: David Fincher’s Se7en And The Medieval Morality Play

David Fincher's grisly neo-noir turns 25 this year, but its major influences go back much further than the film industry. Kristina Murkett explores the film's roots in the medieval morality play

Baker's Dozen

The Power And The Beauty: Tori Amos’ Favourite Music

From bonding with her daughter over Dolly Parton and Cocteau Twins to being starstruck by Billy Joel and Elton John, Tori Amos takes Lisa Jenkins through thirteen tracks that have defined her life and career

Anniversary

Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous 40 Years On

Thin Lizzy's best record was a double live album, says Michael Hann. Just how authentically 'live' it was is debatable but relatively important, instead it shows us that we've lost something along the way

Baker's Dozen

Sounds Behind The Power: Lotic’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of their appearance at this year's Unsound Festival, Lotic speaks to Aimee Armstrong about the 13 records that inspired them through life and music

News

JK Flesh Announces First Original Solo EP On Downwards

Justin K Broadrick will soon release his first original solo record under his JK Flesh alias on Regis' Downwards label

Black Sky Thinking

Chris Roberts On Kate Bush Live

As Kate Bush announces her first live dates in three decades, Chris Roberts writes in praise of an artist who "has always operated outside logic and function."

Baker's Dozen

How Was It For You? Tim Booth Of James’ Favourite Albums

After the release of James' Girl At The End Of The World, lead singer Tim Booth tells John Freeman about clandestine childhood listening and the redemptive powers of Iggy Pop in choosing the LPs that "saved his life"

Baker's Dozen

Darkness And Relief: Sean Lennon’s 13 Favourite Albums

From Herbie Hancock's darkest depths to Brian Eno's anxiety-relieving light, Sean Lennon guides Patrick Clarke through thirteen records that changed his life

Film

Somers Town: Shane Meadows’ Eurostar-Funded Film Reviewed

Does the fact that Somers Town is a feature-length Eurostar advert make it a bad film? David Moats thinks it through

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