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Low Culture Podcast: Acid Horsing & Reflections On 2023

In this month's subscriber podcast, John and Luke look back on highlights of 2023, including a weekend with a Wiltshire Acid Horse

LISTEN: Weatherall Remixes New Order

New Order share an Andrew Weatherall remix of the first single from their recent album; listen to the track below

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for October Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel addresses the "panopticonisation" of dance music culture, and reviews exciting new releases from various electronic realms, among them new albums by CS + Kreme, Lechuga Zafiro, Mala Herba, Rrose x Polygonia and more

Proper Stories: Emilíana Torrini’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the release of her sixth album Tookah next month, the Icelandic singer-songwriter scours her record collection (mentally) to pick her top LPs

Nice And Sleevy: Andrew Liles’ Favourite Album Covers

The prolific multi-instrumentalist, Nurse With Wound and Current 93 collaborator and vinyl art devotee picks his top 13 LP covers, tipping his hat to Coil, Cabaret Voltaire and a quintet of dancing banjos among others

Spiral Stairs Album & Single Details

New releases from Pavement founder

A Presidential Suite: Chilly Gonzales’s Favourite Albums

The man they call Gonzales/Gonzo/Chilly Gonzales/Jason Charles Beck picks out his favourite 13 records

Whose Vault Is It? Amoeba Music & The Ethics Of Reissuing Records

Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults project, digitising rare vinyl for download, seems like a brilliant idea on the surface. However, Laurie Tuffrey investigates the questions it raises about the legal and ethical issues around reissuing older music

A Question Of Lust: Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration Revisited

John Freeman looks back at the album which saw Martin Gore find his voice against a backdrop of inter-band tension.