Ishmael Ensemble: Colours Fly

byOli Warwick
August 8, 2024

Bristol collective Ishmael Ensemble are evolving at a rate of knots. Their expansive new album sees them pushing boundaries like never before, exploring not only contemporary jazz and clubby electronics but also dub, psych and experimental sounds. Thrilling stuff it is too

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Oli Warwick

Benefits: Friends With Benefits

byBob Fischer

Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Simple Minds: Dont You Forget About Me

byMalcom Jack

Smash hits? They’ve had ’em. Enormodomes? They’ve played the lot. Life? They’ve lived it. With a new album on the shelves, we catch Simple Minds’ founding members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill at their Glasgow HQ… forget about them? Not a chance

LLong Reads

12 minute read

Factory Records: A Certain Ratio

byBen Murphy

One of the first bands signed to Factory, A Certain Ratio helped to define the label’s distinctive look and sound, from their Peter Saville-designed record sleeves to their individualistic output.

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Editors: Heavy Heavy Monster Sound

byJeremy Allen

With experimental noisenik Blanck Mass now fully ensconced in the ranks, Editors have gone bigger, deeper and darker into electro-industrial territory on their thrilling new long-player, ‘EBM’. Prepare to have your face melted…

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Daniel Woolhouse: Head Buzz

byNeil Mason

Stepping out from the shadows of Deptford Goth, Daniel Woolhouse returns under his own name with new album ‘What’s That Sound?’. We talk eggs, soup, ceramics, cow ears. You know, the usual

LLong Reads

10 minute read

To Infinity…

byMat Smith

Ever wondered what music will sound like in generations to come? Some of it – by Brian Eno, John Cage, La Monte Young and others – is already heading out into time and space, with more waiting to be revealed in both the near and distant future