Siobhan Kane

Reissue of the Week: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly (10 Year Anniversary Edition)

In 2014 Kendrick Lamar found himself in South Africa, an experience that helped to shape his third studio record, which is perhaps his most complex and enduring statement. Siobhán Kane revisits To Pimp A Butterfly

Reissue of the Week: Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor

Squarepusher once said he has no recollection of making Ultravisitor, his “spectacle of beauty and of terror”. As the record is reissued as an expanded edition for its 20th anniversary, Siobhán Kane returns to the record’s ambiguous beauty

Ragana

Desolation’s Flower

Furious drums, squalls of guitar, and guttural vocals deliver a language of pain on the duo's first record for Flenser Records

L’Rain

I Killed Your Dog

Another fascinating album from L'Rain in which indie rock, dream pop and neo-soul conspire to produce one compelling sound, finds Siobhan Kane

Jessica Pavone

Clamor

Writing for a septet of strings and winds, Jessica Pavone plays with time in a moving tribute to technologies invented by women

Jazz Is My Religion: Idris Ackamoor’s Baker’s Dozen

In a sprawling Baker’s Dozen, longstanding jazz legend Idris Ackamoor tells Siobhán Kane about the way Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Bob Marley and more have inspired his life and work

Alison Goldfrapp

The Love Invention

For her first album sans-Will Gregory, Alison Goldfrapp is full of disco sparkle – but it's the more melancholy numbers where it gets interesting, finds Siobhán Kane

Nathan Fake

Crystal Vision

Nathan Fake looks back to move forward, finds Siobhán Kane

Leather Jacket-Worthy: Lawrence’s Favourite Albums

From the musical worlds of Lionel Bart and 60s psychedelia to the modern pop of Charli XCX, Lawrence takes Siobhan Kane through the 13 albums that have defined his life and work

Reissue Of The Week: Dexys’ Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded

As Kevin Rowland delivers a reworked version of Dexys Midnight Runners’ 1982 megahit Too-Rye-Ay, Siobhán Kane surveys a wonky pop masterpiece, and examines whether an album is ever truly ‘finished’

A Shroom Of One’s Own: Björk’s Fossora Reviewed

The tenth solo album by the Icelandic auteur digs deeper than ever before, bolstered and disrupted by Indonesian gabber, Icelandic choirs and bass clarinet sextets

Nwando Ebizie

The Swan

Todmorden-based Nwando Ebizie thrives on contradiction and paradox, finds Siobhan Kane

Σtella

Up and Away

With producer Tom Calvert, Stella Chronopoulou imagines her fourth album as a found object, promising a lost image of mid-century Greek pop

INTERVIEW: Pharoahe Monch

The Queens rapper talks to Siobhán Kane about his new album, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the importance of film and collaboration in his work and the duality of real life/stage name personas

Things We Learned At: End Of The Road

Siobhán Kane returned for the third time to Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset for the three-day End Of The Road Festival - here's what she found

You Don’t Get Over A Broken Heart: Jens Lekman Interviewed

Siobhán Kane talks to Jens Lekman about the writing process, Tracey Thorn, and his new record I Know What Love Isn't

Lost In The Woods: Moonface’s Spencer Krug Interviewed

Siobhán Kane talks to Spencer Krug about alter-egos, freedom, Finland, and collaborating with Siinai for new album Heartbreaking Bravery

The Walkmen

Heaven

Trembling Bells (Feat. Bonnie Prince Billy)

The Marble Downs

Finding Beauty In Confusion: An Interview With Alexander Tucker

Siobhán Kane talks to Alexander Tucker about his new record Dorwytch, collaborations and outsider art

Destroyer

Kaputt