‘Mascara Streakz’, the first Altered Images album for 39 years, is stuffed with delicious synthpop nuggets. Clare Grogan would like to thank her Tom Courtenay-inspired fitness regime, F Scott Fitzgerald and Nancy Pelosi
Songwriter, musician and all-round chart supremo of four decades, William Orbit has clearly lost neither his producerly nouse, nor his knack for a good story. His new album, ‘The Painter’, is a wistful, hypnotic and thoroughly immersive voyage into sound
With a new boxset marking the 50th anniversary of their self-titled 1972 debut album, Neu!’s pioneering krautrock groove continues to resonate. Here, Michael Rother sheds light on irascible Neu! co-founder Klaus Dinger, his time with Kraftwerk, and the Bowie collaboration that never quite came to pass
Ex-Factory Floor man Gabe Gurnsey is back with his second solo effort, ‘Diablo’. Featuring his girlfriend Tilly Morris as both muse and singer, it’s a pulsating, dancefloor-centric banger teeming with hedonistic abandon, aching desire and a wicked after-dark edge
The publication of her acclaimed autobiography in 2017 set in motion a chain of events that found Cosey Fanni Tutti standing shoulder to shoulder with Delia Derbyshire and a medieval mystic called Margery Kempe. With her new ‘Re-Sisters’ book and a Delia film soundtrack in the shops, plus an intriguing biopic on the way, the fearless electronic disruptor continues to push the envelope
A muggy night at London’s Kilburn National Ballroom in September 1987, and German industrial-meisters Einstürzende Neubauten are headlining. The support act? 1970s glam rock entertainers Showaddywaddy. As one press report aptly put it, “Say WADD?”
Resident archivist Jack Dangers rattles along with ‘Cable Car Soundscapes’, a unique mix of field recording, performance and musique concrète in celebration of San Francisco’s famous transport system