Katie Thomas

Bloody Ground, Fertile Soil 1: Making Music Under Fire In Ukraine

In our new column a number of Ukrainian writers consider their country's music scene during a time of war. To start the series Yaryna Denysyuk, the editor-in-chief of the biggest Ukrainian alternative music website

Lust For Music: Irvine Welsh’s Favourite Albums

With Filth recently released on DVD and a new novel due later this year, the Edinburgh author places a long-distance call from Miami to give Joe Clay the rundown of his top albums

Life Of A Discaholic: Mats Gustafsson’s Favourite Albums

The prolific free jazz saxophonist, The Thing and Fire! member and crate digger extraordinaire takes up our top 13 albums gauntlet

Maggi Payne

Arctic Winds / Ahh-Ahh

Two re-issues from electronic music pioneer Maggi Payne on Leuven's Aguirre Records leave Dustin Krcatovich thrilled and transfixed

Emeka Ogboh Unveils New Album, ‘6°30’33​.​372″N 3°22’0​.​66″E’

It's the first release on the Nigerian sound artist's new label, Danfotronics

Moving Mountains: Green Man Festival 2021 Reviewed

Long one of the UK's finest festivals, even by its own lofty standards Green Man's triumphant 2021 return is an edition for the ages, find Patrick Clarke and Julian Marszalek

The Death Of Dissent: Richard H Kirk’s Baker’s Dozen

With the release of the Richard H Kirk and Sandoz box sets, the Cabaret Voltaire lynchpin takes us through thirteen of his favourite and most enduring albums

Goat

Medicine

Swedish rockers get deeper into psychedelia, darker than ever before, finds Enrico Monacelli

All For The Songs: Edwyn Collins’ Favourite Music

On the verge of a new album and his final ever tour, Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from indie, soul and country classics to his encounters with Sparks and The Cribs

Pants On Fire: Fibs By Anna Meredith

The new album by Anna Meredith is a boundary-crossing, multiphagous masterpiece, finds Anna Cafolla

The National Facility For The Regulation of Regret: Rachel Genn On Writing Addiction

Author Rachel Genn discusses how her background in the neuroscience of addiction fed into her new novel for &Other Stories, *What You Could Have Won*

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Elements Of Confusion: Nick McCabe Of Black Submarine’s Favourite LPs

With New Shores, the long-awaited debut by Black Submarine, out this week, the former Verve guitarist goes from teenage mainstays to recently-heard favourites in his top 13 albums

Relentless Education: Krust’s 13 Favourite Albums

Drum & bass pioneer Krust takes Neil Kulkarni through the records that shaped him, from the lessons learnt from Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan and Yellow Magic Orchestra to the "revelation" of Flying Lotus, via The Beatles, Michael Jackson and more

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