PVA: Do The Mash

byPaul Weedon
January 15, 2026

Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”

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Paul Weedon

Tunng: Night Tales and Dark Arts

byFat Roland

Tunng are a band full of strange misfits. which is a good thing. It’s why the twinkling lights and long shadows of their new album, ‘songs you make at night’, sets it up as a proper contender for one of our records of the year

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8 minute read

Loraine James: Worship The Glitch

bySian Pattenden

Mercurial producer Loraine James embraces fractured IDM, lustrous pop and a sharp cast of collaborators for her latest solo venture – arguably her most assured and absorbing work to date

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12 minute read

Vega Bomb: Alan Vega

byKris Needs

Recorded in New York 25 years ago, Alan Vega’s long-lost ‘Mutator’ album has been brought to life by his wife and long-time collaborator Liz Lamere and his close friend Jared Artaud, who offer a fascinating insight into the life and work of the Suicide vocalist

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20 minute read

Doublespeak: Speak & Spell Bound

byStephen Dalton

Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge are bona fide synthpop royalty. Now they’ve united as Doublespeak – a supergroup reimagining the past with style and swagger

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5 minute read

Memorials: Monumentally Good

byJeremy Allen

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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9 minute read

Craven Faults: Faulty Towers

byBob Fischer

In a secret corner of Yorkshire, a man known only as Craven Faults creates epic modular synth homages to the dark, post-industrial uplands that surround him. Who is he? We really can’t say

PVA: Do The Mash

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Paul Weedon

Tunng: Night Tales and Dark Arts

Loraine James: Worship The Glitch

Vega Bomb: Alan Vega

Doublespeak: Speak & Spell Bound

Memorials: Monumentally Good

Craven Faults: Faulty Towers

O Yuki Conjugate

Oceanic ‘Insanity’

M, ‘Pop Muzik’ (MCA Records, 1979)

Tunng: Folking Great

Krautrock: In Good Hans

Lovely Music Ltd

Oneohtrix Point Never: Pure And Sample

Röyksopp: Curiouser and Curiouser

PVA: Do The Mash

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