Working Men’s Club: Club Mix

The 2020 self-titled debut album from Working Men’s Club won universal acclaim, but their follow-up, ‘Fear Fear’, is arguably even better – a glorious collision of “scuffed” electropop, clubby energy and outright bangers. Frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant reveals its story

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Fat Roland

Cold War Electronica: Cold Warrior

byMark Roland

Factory Records insider and founding member of Die Unbekannten, Mark Reeder arrived in West Berlin in 1978. His Cold War life in the divided city, smuggling music into the East like a dangerous subversive, reads like a post-punk spy yarn

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9 minute read

Cate Le Bon: Bon Voyage

bySharon O'Connell

From folk singer/songwriter to the electronic music top table, Cate Le Bon has been on quite the journey. With a new album, ‘Pompeii’, ready to roll, we find her at the peak of her powers

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8 minute read

John Carpenter: Feel The Fear

byStephen Dalton

With a new John Carpenter anthology featuring reworked versions of his most iconic and haunting themes, the celebrated horror director and composer reflects on his creepy “synth-noir” sound and a life well-lived

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10 minute read

Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer: The Weird Dream Team

byBob Fischer

Stephen James Buckley and Mark Burford are Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer respectively. Holed up together in a remote Lancashire church, their minds frequently wander to cosmic vibrations, pixelated dream states and chain-smoking ghosts…

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12 minute read

Berlin after Bowie: Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey, Simon Bonney

byDavid Stubbs

“It was a fact of life as a little kid,” recalls Alexander Hacke, musician, producer, filmmaker and long-time Einstürzende Neubauten member, born and raised in Berlin and a major participant in the city’s post-punk, pre-rave scene in the 1980s. “I’d go out on the street and play, go around one more corner, and there would be a wall.”

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8 minute read

Wevie Stonder: Stuck On Stupid

byBen Murphy

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers