Features

Robin Guthrie: Round Robin

Ex-Cocteaus man Robin Guthrie gives the scoop on his unique approach to music, and how these days he’s just as likely to make an album in the back of a camper van

Field Music: Cafe Society

The new Field Music offering, ‘Limits Of Language’, finds brothers Peter and David Brewis in a nostalgic mood. Overdosing on Marmite in their favourite Wearside cafe, they look back on the vanished eateries and melancholy early Septembers of their youth

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man 

Former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday has just released his first solo work in 13 years. Reflecting his fabled life, steeped in hook-laden electronics, typically melodramatic and emotive, it’s one of the most absorbing albums he’s ever made

Jill Fraser: Pleasure Principle

Taught by John Cage, and having worked with Morton Subotnick and Serge Tcherepnin, pioneering electronicist Jill Fraser has had quite the career. Her new solo effort, reframing American revival hymns in a modular setting, finds her at the very peak of her powers

Memorials: Monumentally Good

Heirs apparent to the likes of Stereolab and Broadcast, Canterbury duo Memorials craft surrealist psych-pop and tape experiments into gloriously wayward grooves
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No Bounds 2024 Review

If an alien landed on planet Earth and demanded to know where they could find the best demonstration of the UK’s burgeoning electronic scene, your answer should be Sheffield’s No Bounds Festival. As our man on the ground discovers, this raucous mix of rave and immersive arts will make you never want to leave the Steel City
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Rolo McGinty

Rolo McGinty’s transition from indie darling to respected house producer has been a roller-coaster ride. From E in LA to spliffs with Scratch, he tells his unique story of a life in music