Tarkamt

1100 dB

Cairo's Tarkamt threatens to create a black hole big enough to engulf the universe with a set of Merzbowian electronics

Metal Confection & Computer Love: An Interview With Laurel Halo

Rory Gibb talks to Laurel Halo about her new EP Hour Logic, modern science and the influence of Detroit's musical heritage

A Life Bizarre: Sheila E Interviewed

Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)

Colin Self Unveils New EP for RVNG Intl., ‘Lemniscate’

It marks the Berlin and New York-based multi-disciplinary artist's first new material since 2018

Start With the Noise: The Unlikely Return of The Wolfgang Press

With a post punk pedigree that stretches back to the origins of 4AD, The Wolfgang Press have made their first album for nearly 30 years, and the only thing it has in common with its predecessors is that it sounds nothing like them, they tell Wesley Doyle

Locate Your Innerspeaker: Tame Impala Interviewed

Glen McLeod talks to Tame Impala singer Kevin Parker about solitude, nostalgia and being pelted with money

A John Foxx Interview – Impossible DNA

Emily Bick conducts an in-depth interview with John Foxx about cinematic ghosts, Battersea Power Station and psychogeography. Current portrait of John Foxx: Craig Hewitt

Aesthetics Vs Technology: Matthew E White Interviewed

Julian Marszalek speaks to the hirsute Virginian rock sensation about his new album, Fresh Blood. Photographs by Shawn Brackbill

Hope In Extremity: An Interview With Barney Greenway Of Napalm Death

Keith Kahn-Harris chats with legendarily personable Napalm Death vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway about what extremity and radicalism mean in a plague year

I Wear My Pain As A Jacket: An Interview With Calabashed

Following the release of their extraordinary debut EP 'Behold A Black Wave', Alabaster DePlume and Joshua Idehen speak to Patrick Clarke about their vulnerable and powerful new project Calabashed

Like Jesus Christ Superstar With Depression: Beak> Discuss Their new Album

As they surprise-release their first album in six years, the Bristol trio speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about how ambiguity, a Welsh farmhouse and a departed pet all played a part in their astonishing new music. Cover portrait by Andre Habermann

It’s Arbitrary And That’s What Makes It Beautiful: Virginia Wing Interviewed

Virginia Wing talk to Bernie Brooks about music as a coping mechanism, training the press, and making a "2020 record"

Machine & Voice: An Interview With Muscles Of Joy

Stuart Huggett meets Glasgow's Muscles Of Joy, a seven-strong band who use vocals and self-built instruments to create songs that are beguiling and jarring in equal measure

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The Sound Of Endless Summer: Still Corners Interviewed

They've only just sorted out a settled line-up, but Still Corners' dreamy-pop is as polished as it comes. They talk to Darren Loucaides about countryside clichés and Twin Peaks

Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production