Features
Matt Berry: Make Some Noise
When he’s not dazzling as a brilliant comedy actor, Matt Berry channels his creative energy into multi-instrumental adventures. Lush psychedelia, cosmic synths and timeless melodies coalesce with utterly compelling results
Moon Wiring Club: A Kind Of Magic
Since 2007, Ian Hodgson has been the shadowy wizard operating the levers of the mysterious Moon Wiring Club. now he’s ready to pull back the curtain
Tunng: Folking Great
Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay reflect on 20 storied years of making music as folktronica outfit Tunng, and unpick the band’s remarkable new album, which takes inspiration from ‘The Wicker Man’, sea shanties and the “wonder and magic of life”
The Art of Noise: A Moment Of Intent
Would you recommend that all bands and musicians have a manifesto?
JJ Jeczalik: “As long as they are prepared to rip it up.”
Synergy ‘Games’ (Passport, 1979)
The overstuffed bins at Angry Mom Records are just down the hill from the engineering campus of Cornell University, where students shoot lasers through cool neutral plasmas and test semiconductors
The Art of Noise: A Revealing Moment
Paul Morley: “The other day, I was watching Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley on the television. He was in America, and the host was calling him a genius. But even he had to admit that the only contribution he made to either ‘Careless Whisper’ or ‘Last Christmas’ was that he was the first person to hear it.
Reviews
Live Sessions
ESLS017 – Bodega
Brooklyn’s post-punk art rock stylings hit the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS016 – Ultramarine
Electronica blends into a sound art experience in the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS015 – Hifi Sean & David McAlmont
Men and machines in perfect harmony in the ES studio
Recent
Video: Fragile Self – ’Existence Against Existence‘
New work from Bowie designer‘s audio-visual project
Video: Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – ‘Back In The Game‘
First track from startling new pairing
Vivien Goldman
Legendary music writer Vivien Goldman reflects on her six decades documenting your favourite counterculturalists and why the fight against “the cockocracy” hasn’t ended just yet
Amazon and Hello Fresh deliveries
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is The US Dance Scene
Keiichiro Shibuya
A night at the (AI-generated) opera
Torba
“Dirty music” bleeds neo-industrial
Park Jiha
Acclaimed composer adopts electronica
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ‘Electricity’
Andy McCluskey tells the fortuitous story behind Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s 1979 debut single ‘Electricity’, which Factory boss Tony Wilson so nearly chucked in the bin
Saxon Studio International ‘Coughing Up Fire!!!’
Resident archivist Jack Dangers returns from his vault with ‘Coughing Up Fire!!!’, an album that encapsulates a remarkable 1980s London scene
Coreysan and Alfredo
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Coreysan and Alfredo