Faust: Faust Forward
Fusing electronics, noise, drone and abstraction to startling effect, few bands have challenged the idea of Rock music quite like the German collective Faust...
Takeshi’s Cashew
“Psych medieval Nintendo Core” ahoy
Names On Tapes
Duo pull the spool and find gold
Larimae
Ambient braindance gets neurons firing
Flaty
Hip hop enters new stratospheres
Super Furry Animals’ FV433 Abbot Howitzer
A whole 30 years after they navigated the British summer festival circuit in an FV433 Abbot Howitzer, Super Furry Animals remember the carnage left behind by its brief tour of duty
Eric Random ‘That’s What I Like About Me’
This month, resident archivist Jack Dangers focuses on ‘That’s What I Like About Me’, a Cabaret Voltaire-adjacent album by Eric Random from 1980
Ron Hardy ‘Sensation’
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Ron Hardy’s ‘Sensation’
Nick Nicely ‘Hilly Fields’
Electro-psych enigma Nick Nicely recounts the creation of 1982’s cult classic ‘Hilly Fields’, now widely considered a pivotal influence on the hypnagogic pop scene
EP-4 ‘Found Tapes’ (Telegraph, 1984)
"Spinning out of a scene centred around the Kyoto venue Club Modern, EP-4 were formed by local musician Kaoru Sato in 1980..."