Revolution in the Head: Beautify Junkyards

Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings

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Unloved: Music From Big Pink

byJeremy Allen

Unloved might be best known for soundtracking ‘Killing Eve’, but their third long-player, ‘The Pink Album’, widens the scope. Epic yet intimate, and gloriously diverse, it’s a beautifully spun fusion of psych hallucinations, fearless invention and melancholic jazz – and that’s only the half of it

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5 minute read

Robin Guthrie: Round Robin

byRobert Harris

Ex-Cocteaus man Robin Guthrie gives the scoop on his unique approach to music, and how these days he’s just as likely to make an album in the back of a camper van

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8 minute read

Laibach: Pop, Pop, Pop Musick

byJeremy Allen

Eschewing their usual avant-garde provocations, Laibach are back with their most pop-facing record yet – a gloriously hook-laden set packed with undeniable bangers. Didn’t see that one coming…

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4 minute read

We Are The Robots: The Roboticisation of Kraftwerk

byMark Roland

Their transition from arty hippies to electronic music’s most famous robots would appear to be more of a masterstoke than first meets the eye

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9 minute read

A conversation with Holger Czukay: “There’s a method to this madness”

byHendrik Otremba

In July 2017, Hendrik Otremba met Can’s Holger Czukay in the old Weilerswist cinema where he’d lived and worked since the 1970s. The pair sat down to discuss his retrospective ‘Cinema’ boxset, curated by Otremba and set for release this month to mark his 80th birthday. Shortly after their chat, Czukay’s wife passed away, just a few weeks later, on 5 September, Holger died too. This was his final interview

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7 minute read

Der Plan: We are the Robots

byJeremy Allen

Forget Kraftwerk doing it for one song, in the late 1980s, fellow Düsseldorf outfit Der Plan came up with a crackpot scheme to completely replace themselves with robots…