Baxter Dury: Dury Service

bySian Pattenden
August 14, 2025

With its clubby swagger and “scuffed vignettes”, Baxter Dury’s new album, ‘Allbarone’, is a joyous tour de force of bangers and typically sardonic lyrical swipes.

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Songwriter, musician and all-round chart supremo of four decades, William Orbit has clearly lost neither his producerly nouse, nor his knack for a good story. His new album, ‘The Painter’, is a wistful, hypnotic and thoroughly immersive voyage into sound

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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?

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7 minute read

Poppy Ackroyd: Shock Of The Neo

byBethan Cole

Not content on resting on her classically-trained laurels, Poppy Ackroyd takes inspiration from nature and revels in an unconventional approach to tickling the ivories

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5 minute read

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

Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

byJasa Buzinel

A special report from Ljubljana on electronic music in Slovenia, a country with an exciting and thriving scene headed up by Laibach, but boasting a host of less-celebrated bands, producers, labels and more

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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

Baxter Dury: Dury Service

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Sian Pattenden

William Orbit: True Colours

A Sheffield Story: From Vice Versa To Abc

Poppy Ackroyd: Shock Of The Neo

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

Luke Haines: Mythic Muthafuckin’ rock ‘n’ Roll

Max Cooper

Suicide, Brussels, 1978

The Art Of Noise ‘Close (To The Edit)’

Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power

Thomas Dolby: The Appliance Of Science

Office For Personal Development: Funny Business

Wolfgang Flür: Robotman

Helen Ganya: Family Album

Baxter Dury: Dury Service

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