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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”

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.
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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