Luke Turner

LISTEN: New Chromatics!!

FINALLY!

Nonpareils

Scented Pictures

Aaron Hemphill has some fun after he left Liars, and the result is compelling and rewarding

Arctic Monkeys

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Do not adjust your sets - our Luke Turner is a big fan of the new LP by Alex Turner & co - here's why

Legislated Nostalgia: Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish, 25 Years On

Blur's vision of Britain in 1993 was only a hair's breadth away from that of John Major, says Luke Turner, as he revisits the band's least terrible album 25 years on

ABBA Reunite! New Material!

Swedish pop sensation back together properly

WATCH: The Aleph Video

Come this way for leftfield pop songs about northern loom operators &c

LISTEN: Faux Naif Mix WIN! Tapes!

All to preview forthcoming DVA Damas gig in London

Download Archive Of BBC Sound Effects!

Thousands of HQ samples available for free!

WATCH: New Mirrored Lips Video

Good chunk of Russian punk here

Chris Carter & More For Sea Change!

LOADS of ace other stuff too - join us for a steam train ride in Devon

Shirley Collins / VA

The Ballad Of Shirley Collins soundtrack

Music taken from the recent documentary about Shirley Collins' return to music is more than a mere soundtrack LP, says Luke Turner.

Laura Cannell’s Modern Ritual: Dates Announced

This Heat's Hayward & Quietus writers involved

Pet Shop Boys

Please & Actually & Introspective: reissues

Spectacular, defiant, joyous: the first three albums of pop majesty from Pet Shop Boys, reissued with some excellent extras.

A Blast From The Past: Defying Brexit With The Ancient Horns Of Europe

A pan-European research project is revealing how the ancient instruments played by our ancestors point towards musical sophistication and co-operation across ethnic boundaries. Luke Turner investigates.

Hip Priest: Mark E Smith As Conduit For The Fall

The Fall was always bigger than Mark E Smith, and he knew it even when we forgot. Luke Turner reflects on a great curator, interpreter and magician

Mark E Smith Of The Fall On Art & The Artist

Richard Skelton

Towards A Frontier

From the landscapes of east Iceland, Richard Skelton's multidisciplinary response to shifting seasons, global frailty and environmental destruction.

Daniel Quinn Launches Book Kickstarter

Plus there's a new video online

LISTEN: Sleeping States

Bristol-based musician returns for a short run of live dates and a new old song

Leyland Kirby

We, So Tired Of All The Darkness In Our Lives

"It's not free because I place no value on this work. It's free because I mean it," says Leyland Kirby of his beautiful, generous new album.

LISTEN: New Richard Skelton

Hear an excerpt of a new installation on the Isle Of Skye via our Soundcloud. Photos by Richard Skelton.

Cosey Fanni Tutti Reissues Time To Tell

Cassette release to finally appear on vinyl

LISTEN: Andrew Liles VS Sisters Of Mercy

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Prime Bush Tucker: Luke Turner On Liars’ TFCF

Angus Andrew retreated to the remote Australian bush to make the first Liars album featuring himself as the sole member. Here's what he concocted.

An Existential Namaste: ADULT. Interviewed

For their most recent album Adult.'s Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus invited the likes of Douglas McCarthy and Shannon Furness into their Detroit home for a uniquely intimate recording process. Ahead of their UK tour this week, they discuss the pre-session hoovering with Luke Turner. Scroll down for an exclusive look at their new video below.

Alan Vega

IT

Luke Turner On Public Service Broadcasting’s Every Valley

The nostalgia merchants remember the miners with turgid, insipid, bizarrely misjudged pap. Luke Turner is righteously appalled.

WATCH: Morrissey Biopic Trailer

Footage from forthcoming film online

A New Generation, Rise: Travelling From Cynicism To Hope With Algiers

As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.

Europe, Endless? On Watching Kraftwerk Live, A Year After Brexit

Almost exactly a year after the UK voted to leave the EU Luke Turner finds the experience of watching Kraftwerk play live has acquired an unexpected melancholy aspect. Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?

A Love Like That: Vince & Andy Of Erasure On Vince & Andy Of Erasure

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde this weekend and next year's mammoth UK tour, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell open up to Luke Turner about the history of the wonderful synth duo... and each other.

PREVIEW: Longplayer Day

We preview Longplayer Day, this week's London-based solstice arts festival, with Adam Scovell writing a piece on his Robert Macfarlane collaboration, Holloway