Month: April 2020

As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.

German electronic colossus Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on the latest volume of his four-decade ‘Selbstportrait’ series of albums, his turbulent early life, and the love of a good woman 

After a two-decade hiatus, Birmingham outfit Plone have returned with a new album, ‘Puzzlewood’, and it’s packed with nostalgic vintage synth sounds. So why on earth has it taken them so long?

You will most likely know the name MJ Cole from his dominance of the 1990s garage scene. His latest solo outing, ‘Madrugada’, takes him back to his roots, but not in the way you might think 

‘Howl’, the album from John Foxx And The Maths, seems spookily prophetic given these strange and unsettling times. We talk to Foxx and his Mathematicians – Benge, Hannah Peel and former Ultravox axeman Robin Simon – about heavy electronics, contorted guitars, violent violins, and howling into the void

With its rich rave history, the Bang Face weekender is an aural assault/celebration of all things day-glo and old skool. Just days before the coronavirus shuts down the live music world, we find ourselves at the last party in town