Month: January 2021

If you were a teenager in the 1980s, Malcolm Garrett’s iconic record covers most probably crazy-paved your bedroom floor. Inspired by a love for electronic music and a hefty dose of early punk, his revolutionary design ideas reverberate to this day

He performs in a horned mask. His new album is called ‘False’ and it features collaborations with 14 artists who may or may not exist. He wants to train other musicians to play his gigs for him. Welcome to the strange reality of Lambert

Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British  acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings

Langham Research Centre are fanatical about tape manipulation and the sonic smorgasbord that surrounds us. And if you have ever wondered what an abandoned nuclear weapons testing site overlooking the North Sea sounds like…

A limited edition (of one) boxset for £10,000. A can of Antarctic air for £500. A toilet roll for £200. A hole punch for £50. An album of electronic rock (or should that be rocktronica?) with 2021 written all over it. Enter the mighty strange world of studio perfectionist and cult phenomenon Steven Wilson