Woo: A Room With A Woo

Since the early 1970s, brothers Mark and Clive Ives have been recording as Woo – arguably the UK’s most prolific DIY outfit. Two new albums, ‘Robot X’ and ‘Xylophonics’, raid their vast archive. And it all began with Uncle Fred’s musical saw

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Bob Fischer

Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

byBob Fischer

Blancmange have released some terrific albums in recent years – and ‘Private View’ is up there with their very best. In a hugely entertaining and highly revealing interview, frontman Neil Arthur gives the inside story on the band’s latest record and also talks art, swimming, dead men’s suits, recycling, smudged bindis, inflatable whales, luck, love, loss… and how everything is connected

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Lo Fidelity Allstars: Fee Lo-Fi Fo Fun

byNeil Mason

Late 1990s big beat giants Lo Fidelity Allstars are back! A handful of dates at Easter haS turned into an autumn tour and there’s even talk of some new music. Big chief Phil Ward tells all over a pint before the band’s first show in nearly a decade

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Pneumatic Tubes: Son Of His Father

byBob Fischer

Infused with the spirit of Woodstock and resolutely “bound to the mountains”, Midlake and Mercury Rev’s Jesse Chandler pays tribute to his late father on a second album as Pneumatic Tubes

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Decius: It’s A Family Affair

byJeremy Allen

What do you get when you cross Fat White Family, Paranoid London and Warmduscher? That’ll be London collective Decius, whose debut album buzzes with seedy acid house, wayward disco grooves and alluring hedonistic fervour

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Orbury Common: Common People

byBob Fischer

Orbury Common’s records are fanciful delights, combining hazy hip hop beats and traditional folk trappings with the hallucinogenic imagery of a nightmarish parallel universe

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Summer 1978, New York’s New Wave Heatwave: Suicide

byKris Needs

“Lester Bangs told us that when Kraftwerk were in New York, they were in his apartment and he said, ‘This has just come out, now hear this!’. They were so blown away they took Lester’s copy… they just took his record!” – Martin Rev