Atka
Pop polymath deals a debut doozy
Vic Mars
Musician Vic Mars takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
Ananda Shankar ‘Ananda Shankar’ (Reprise, 1970)
In Ananda Shankar’s relatively short lifetime, the Indian sitar player was never afraid to push boundaries.
Emma Anderson: Out Of Her Shell
It’s 35 years since Emma Anderson formed shoegaze behemoths Lush, but her new album ‘Pearlies’ is her first solo record proper. As both a paean to independence and a work of darkly beautiful psychedelic pop, it’s a triumph. What’s on her mind these days?
Guava
Club-primed melancholia from star-to-be
Digital Roses
Ravishing avant-pop from south London
Amps Kill
Big noise to get your neighbours knocking
Amor Muere
Meet Mexican “experimental supergroup”
Pierre Bastien
On ‘Baba Soirée’, his new collaborative album with Michel Banabila, mechanical instrument maestro Pierre Bastien revels in unusual ways to manipulate the sound of his cornet. His influences are a steady diet of artistic rule-breakers… and tiny circuses
Gavin Bryars ‘The Sinking Of The Titanic’
As the inaugural release on Brian Eno’s Obscure imprint, ‘The Sinking Of The Titanic’ has inspired generations of artists and listeners alike. Yorkshire composer Gavin Bryars reveals how he penned, or rather, “put together” this iconic composition