Ned Raggett

Shouting Louder Than Words: Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade

Ned Raggett turns the clock back thirty-five years and looks at American masculinity in terms of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade

An Eternal Heaviness: Scorn’s Evanescence Revisited

Ned Raggett revisits this mesmeric dubbed out electronic album by Mick Harris and Nic Bullen, formerly of Napalm Death

Ian Crause

The Song Of Phaethon EP

Water On Water: In Praise Of Echo And The Bunnymen’s Ocean Rain

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett gives us his American take on another classic British indie album...

Dream Pop’s Year Zero: A.R. Kane’s i Revisited

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett once again gives his American perspective on a British album, this time AR Kane's I

An Open Wound: Swans’ Cop Revisited

Catharsis was just another word for sonic dismemberment, says Ned Raggett about this 1984 noise rock album from Swans

Echo And The Bunnymen

Meteorites

Inspiral Carpets

Dung 4 (Reissue)

Christopher Bissonnette

Essays In Idleness

Boss Tunes: Pulp’s His ‘N’ Hers 25 Years On

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett once more offers the American perspective; this time on the album that signposted Pulp's ascendency to the outsider pop throne

Numero

Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles

Marc Almond

Tasmanian Tiger EP

Lingering Memory: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II, 25 Years On

Two and a half decades since the release of Aphex Twin's second collection of Ambient Works, Ned Raggett revisits an album whose enigmatic internal logic remains as intriguing and beguiling as ever

A Deliberate Rejection Of Beauty? Disco Inferno’s D.I. Go Pop

Ned Raggett looks back twenty years to an album of "urban sound with seaside and seasonal reveries that aren’t quite that, a burst of activity that could also be a last gasp"

Open Territory: An Interview With Alcest

Ned Raggett speaks to Neige, the singer/composer behind French band Alcest, to discuss their new album Shelter's wholescale shift towards hazy shoegaze territory

So Beautifully Bright: New Order’s Technique 30 Years On

Ned Raggett recalls his first encounter with the "massive achievement" that was Technique three decades after its release

The Monks Kitchen

Music From The Monk's Kitchen

Paul Ferris

Witchfinder General OST

Various Artists

Love Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966 To 1972

Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux

Various Artists

Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound

30 Years On: The House Of Love’s Debut Album Revisited

Ned Raggett revisits The House Of Love's debut and finds an album that's aged beautifully

INTERVIEW: Tess Parks

Plus, first spin of Gates Of Broadway from Toronto singer-songwriter's debut album Blood Hot

Recombination Therapy: An Interview With Larry Gus

The richly textured pop of Larry Gus' latest album Years Not Living, released through DFA, emerges from a process of sound recombination inspired equally by literature and mathematics. He speaks to Ned Raggett about Borges, Ballard and a love of density in sound

Bitchin’ Bajas

Bitchitronics

INTERVIEW: Rene Hell

With his playfully abrasive new album just released through PAN, Ned Raggett catches up with Stateside electronic musician Rene Hell to talk Vanilla Call Option and running into cement walls

Nine Inch Nails

Hesitation Marks

INTERVIEW: kandodo

We talk to Simon Price about the second album, k2o, he's releasing under his experimental solo guise

INTERVIEW: Circle

We talk to the Finnish experimentalists about their recent Six Day Run soundtrack, the writing process and beginning to record as an AOR group

30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

Ned Raggett, our man in Orange County, CA, ponders the magnificence of New Orders second long player

A Distant Radiating Orb: Barn Owl Interviewed

With new album V, Bay Area duo Barn Owl soar into more overtly electronic territories than ever before, infusing the gorgeous, glacial drones of their earlier work with a dub-inspired sense of shifting space. Ned Raggett catches up with them to discuss this gradual evolution

LIVE REPORT: Sparks

At last week's set at the Hollywood Forever cemetery's Masonic Hall, Ned Raggett finds Ron and Russell Mael's pared down set-up provides a refreshing take on some familiar songs