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With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
From sampling a tank rolling over a Nigella Lawson dinner to creating an album detailing the life of a pig from birth to plate (2011’s One Pig), Matthew Herbert has long been one of Britain’s most remarkable musicians. Here he talks to Ben Cardew
From sampling a tank rolling over a Nigella Lawson dinner to creating an album detailing the life of a pig from birth to plate (2011’s One Pig), Matthew Herbert has long been one of Britain’s most remarkable musicians. Here he talks to Ben Cardew