Memorials: Monumentally Good

byJeremy Allen
November 14, 2024

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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Jeremy Allen

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

byMark Roland

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are far more than simple musicians. From ingenious and engaging sound art to thought-provoking exhibitions and installations, here is a potted guide to some of their works beyond music

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9 minute read

Luke Haines: Mythic Muthafuckin’ rock ‘n’ Roll

byNeil Mason

For the third part of his psychedelic trilogy, Luke Haines pays tribute to Suicide, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, William Burroughs and the rest of the red-eyed freaks that stalked the mean streets of 1970s New York

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5 minute read

Alex H Duncan: Rub Of The Green

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Using data gathered from plants and fungi, Alex H Duncan creates unique, “non-human” sounds and melodies. It’s intoxicating stuff

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19 minute read

Devo: In The Beginning Was The End… 50 years of De-Evolution

byMark Roland

As comic-book lab scientists Devo celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new boxset of archive treasures, they’ve also announced a farewell tour. Have the spudboys really run out of sap?

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8 minute read

Kl(aüs): Up The Bracket

byBob Fischer

A friendship forged in Tasmania, cemented in Sydney and immortalised in two two epic, yet intimate albums. Stewart Lawler and Jonathan Elliott are Kl(aüs) and they have something important to say about umlauts

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15 minute read

A Sheffield Story: From Vice Versa To Abc

byVel Ilic

Hard as it is to fathom, the gold lamé and grand orchestral pop of Sheffield’s ABC developed out of post-punk experimentalist outfit Vice Versa. What were they putting in the water up there in South Yorkshire?

Memorials: Monumentally Good

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Jeremy Allen

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

Luke Haines: Mythic Muthafuckin’ rock ‘n’ Roll

Alex H Duncan: Rub Of The Green

Devo: In The Beginning Was The End… 50 years of De-Evolution

Kl(aüs): Up The Bracket

A Sheffield Story: From Vice Versa To Abc

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Memorials: Monumentally Good

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