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PVA: Do The Mash

Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”

Sarah Nixey: Going Coastal

She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss

Sleaford Mods: X-Cess All Areas

Sleaford Mods return with their most ambitious, sharp-tongued set yet, AS ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ cranks up fury and vivid sonics into a caustic portrait of cultural freefall and catharsis. They’re loud, angry and utterly irresistible

Propaganda: Wishful Syncing

As Propaganda unveil a definitive new boxset documenting their classic ZTT era, Ralf Dörper, Claudia Brücken, Susanne Freytag and Michael Mertens reflect on the tensions, triumphs and visionary studio craft behind ‘A Secret Wish’

Tortoise ‘Djed’

With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene

Mike Paradinas

In the wake of his recent release, ‘Manzana’, Planet Mu label founder and IDM veteran Mike Paradinas – aka µ-Ziq – reflects on the influences that shape how he makes music 
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Factory Floor

Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
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ESLS018 – Sunda Arc

Electronica and woodwind – together at last Sunda Arc is an electronic project that seamlessly blends digital soundscapes…
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Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’

In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story