The Nurse With Wound List
In 1978, Nurse With Wound lynchpins Steve Stapleton and John Fothergill were unknown noise merchants. Then they made a list that would accidentally become the guiding light for experimental music creators
Josh Wink ‘Higher State Of Consciousness’
Josh Wink talks use through the making of his floor-filling monster, ‘Higher State Of Consciousness’
SHHE
Vocal-driven dreamy electronics
Isaac Delusion
Anglophile electropop from Paris suburbs
Hinako Omori
Experimental synth-laden avant-pop
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon discusses some of the influences that have shaped him and his spiffing and surprisingly synth-heavy album ‘Office Politics’
Clubbing in the 90s
Freewheeling through time and space, our renegade columnist ventures out on his further adventures in audio. This month, clubbing in the 90s
Thomas Leer ‘Private Plane’
Thomas Leer remembers Port Glasgow, friend and collaborator Robert Rental, and what led him to create ‘Private Plane’ and his “homemade” electronic sound
Jon Hassell
Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at Jon Hassell’s little-known tape music piece from 1968 along with a more recent album which is fetching big money on the secondhand market
No-Man: Man Alive
Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson are back with the first No-Man album since 2008 – and it’s a return to their electronic roots, soundtracking a tale of tragic, fractured romance