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Album of the Week

What Are Words Worth? Félicia Atkinson’s Image Language

Music and lyrics conspire to form a puzzle for Daryl Worthington
Reviews

Yama Warashi

Crispy Moon

Yama Warashi plays with time and space on an album that, for all its diverse influences, is pop through and through, finds Daryl Worthington
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Síntomas De Techno

A collection of underground electronic music recorded in Peru during a tumultuous political climate, give us a lens into a vibrant time of exploration despite the most challenging of contexts
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Avon Terror Corps

Avon Terror Corps, a sprawling collective of DIY musicians and artists from Bristol and beyond, are releasing some of the most exciting music on earth right now. Daryl Worthington guides you through ten essential releases
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Daryl Worthington

A haunting folk relic from Japan, a mafia themed concept album, drum virtuoso hyper pop, and an occult radio play. Daryl Worthington finds there’s a host of fascinating stories in the tape world this month
Reviews

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin

Ghosted

A collaboration between guitarist Oren Ambarchi, drummer Andreas Werliin, and bassist Johan Berthling proves mind-expanding for Daryl Worthington
Reviews

Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver

Moten​/​López​/​Cleaver

From New York's Reading Group, a thrilling improvisation between Brandon López (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums) with the voice of poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten, recorded in the immediate aftermath of the death of George Floyd
Reviews

Colpitts

Music From the Accident

Oneida / Man Forever's John Colpitts draws triumph from the most catastrophic adversity, finds Daryl Worthington
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Daryl Worthington

3D live coded beats, genre defying swing, revelatory flute, a fantastic compilation from Peru, and more. Daryl Worthington dives into the tape world for April
Reviews

Kate Carr

Fake Creek

Sound artist Kate Carr offers up a field recording of her own imagining
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For March By Daryl Worthington

Daryl Worthington speaks to Constellation Tatsu about a decade of releasing music on tape, and looks at some of the most exciting music on cassette this month, from Paraguayan harp to paranormal cut-ups, four track riots to glistening synths and brutal electronics
Anniversary

Stars Of The Lid: The Ballasted Orchestra 25 Years On

This week sees the 25th anniversary of the Texan ambient masterpiece. Daryl Worthington tries to locate its stately drones in spatial, temporal and cultural terms
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For February By Daryl Worthington

Poems on space and place, divine bassoon, reality bending plunderphonics. Daryl Worthington catches up with the tape scene for the first time in 2022, and finds things as chaotically brilliant as usual
Reviews

Beast Nest

Sicko

Survivors of Oakland's Ghost ship fire find catharsis exploring inner and outer space
Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence V: Latvian Cosmic Pop

In the first subscriber-only newsletter of 2022, Daryl Worthington delves deep into the murky world of the experimental Latvian underground of the 80s to bring you a selection of bangers
Reviews

Richard Skelton

A Guidonian Hand

Richard Skelton turns lead into gold on an album that sounds more forged than formed, finds Daryl Worthington
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: The Best Tapes Of 2021

Daryl Worthington looks back the year in cassettes, and finds the underground in buoyant, triumphant, monolith smashing health
Album of the Week

Rock Botany: Henki By Richard Dawson & Circle

On new album *Henki*, Richard Dawson and Circle bring prog rock bombast dowon to a human scale, still utterly triumphant, finds Daryl Worthington
Reviews

Body/Dilloway/Head

s/t

Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, and Aaron Dilloway team up to mangle voices and guitars alike to thrilling effect, finds Daryl Worthington
Live Reviews

Everyway Is Forward: Semibreve 2021 Reviewed

From brutal electronics to duelling harps, Semibreve 2021 revels in experimental music as a shared questioning of boundary and form, writes Daryl Worthington. All photographs courtesy of Adriano Ferreira Borges / Semibreve
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For November By Daryl Worthington

Bombastic autodidactic musical theatre, contorted spoken word and text-to-speech intimacies, there’s a world of strange narratives burbling from the tape scene this month, writes Daryl Worthington
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Dennis Bovell & The Pop Group’s Y In Dub

Delving into the archive doesn't need to be about nostalgia, says Daryl Worthington after listening to Dennis Bovell's rework of The Pop Group debut LP

Art

“We Get Ear Worms, But Do We Get Eye Worms?” An Interview With People Like Us

Ahead of the premiere of her new work, ‘Gone, Gone Beyond,’ Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, talks to Daryl Worthington about composing in 3D and collaborations across time and space

Reviews

Fire-Toolz

Eternal Home

The latest from Fire-Tools is quite the trip, finds Daryl Worthngton
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For October By Daryl Worthington

Autumn’s coming, and Daryl Worthington finds it’s bringing a globe spanning mix of radical sonics, ocean deep ambience and hyperactive ecstasy from the tape scene
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Low

Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker go deep into their back catalogue, speaking to Daryl Worthington about everything from Christmas songs to dub versions, Misfits impressions, and their breathtaking new album
Reviews

Cypro

I Have Eaten From The Timbrel I Have Drunk From The Cymbal

Mira Martin-Gray hacks new possibilities from a Roland SH-101, writes Daryl Worthington
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For August By Daryl Worthington

Pastoral motorik masterpieces from France, field recordings from a volcanic island and a cybernetic solo percussion album, Daryl Worthington finds tapes contain lots of ways to drown out the modern nightmare this August
Reviews

Natalia Beylis

Invaded By Fireflies

New from Cafe Oto's inhouse label Takuroku records, Natalia Beylis composes a delicate web out of friends' and neighbours' fond reminiscences
Reviews

Ruth Goller

Skylla

Bassist for Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down with her first solo album, an entwining of bass and voice that feels like pure science fiction, finds Daryl Worthington
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For July By Daryl Worthington

Role playing medieval digi-dub, haunted cello, an epic pop masterpiece and a family of beavers, Daryl Worthington takes a tour of the ever-exciting tape scene
Reviews

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part

Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw joins the New York percussion quartet for a suite of songs melding folk elements with modern composition
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