Jo Johnson: This Year’s Grrrl

byBen Murphy
December 11, 2025

Inspired by the likes of Laurie Spiegel, Delia Derbyshire and Éliane Radigue, electronic minimalist Jo Johnson creates slow-burning sounds that shimmer with emotion and quiet intensity

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Creep Show: The Heebeegeebees

byStephen Dalton

An off-the-wall supergroup, where Stephen Mallinder and John Grant share the mic, and a debut long-player that’s high on our Album Of The Year list already… meet Creep Show

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Co-founder of The Moonlandingz, Eccentronic Research Council and International Teachers Of Pop, Sheffield’s prolific producer and “cultural agitator” Adrian Flanagan is back with a new album under his latest alias, Acid Klaus

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Hannah Peel: Rise And Shine

byStephen Dalton

Something of a best-kept secret, with her dazzling new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ Hannah Peel is a star on the rise. We feel the increasing warmth of that limelight…

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Delia Derbyshire: the Delian mythic mode

byDr David Butler

The myth of Delia Derbyshire grows by the year, but her archive reveals that all is not quite as it seems, offering a fascinating insight into her sound-obsessed childhood and her work after leaving the radiophonic workshop

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John Maus: The Maus That Roared

byBen Gilbert

Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album

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David M Allen: How Very Dare You

byMark Roland

Mixing desk wizard David M Allen discusses his role in the making of what may well be one of the greatest synthpop albums of all time… and The Human League’s ‘Dare’

Jo Johnson: This Year’s Grrrl

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Ben Murphy

Creep Show: The Heebeegeebees

Acid Klaus: Klaus Encounter

Hannah Peel: Rise And Shine

Delia Derbyshire: the Delian mythic mode

John Maus: The Maus That Roared

David M Allen: How Very Dare You

A Man Called Adam

Anna Meredith

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Richard Fearless: Facing Up

Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

Miss Grit: Human After All

Orbury Common: Common People

Jane Weaver: Love Parade

Jo Johnson: This Year’s Grrrl

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