Sam Shepherd
Floating Points’ Sam Shepherd on the first and last records he bought, and his emergency pick
One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)
The trio of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven released a solitary album. There was apparently a second, but it never saw the light.
Acid House
He turns up each month waving paper with words on insisting he’s a columnist. We think he might be lost.
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army ‘Replicas – The First Recordings’ / Gary Numan ‘The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings’ (Beggars Arkive)
If the names of these two records said together are a mouthful, then spare a thought for Gary Numan, who’d wanted ‘Replicas’ to come out under his own name rather than as the follow-up to Tubeway Army’s eponymous debut.
R Elizabeth
Otherworldy academic electropop
Fariña
Devon-based 90s three-piece reunited
Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval talks us through her formative influences, taking in 90s dance, death metal, John Carpenter and flying synth sounds along the wayÂ
Ron Hardy
Freewheeling through time and space, our renegade columnist ventures out on his further adventures in audio. This month, Ron Hardy
Vittoria Gelmetti
Resident archivist Jack Dangers revisits a 1975 album by Italian composer Vittoria Gelmetti
Stephen Mallinder: Mal Content
As a member of Wrangler and Creep Show as well as holding down a university lecturing post, former Cabs man Stephen Mallinder has somehow found time for a solo album