QuinzeQuinze
French outfit with Polynesian influence
Metronomy: World View
Good things come in little parcels. And the new Metronomy album, ‘Small World’, is certainly a welcome delivery. Joseph Mount, the band’s de facto leader, gives us the lowdown on their finest outing since ‘The English Riviera’Â
Pascal Gabriel
Producer Pascal Gabriel revisits his innovative work on a brace of 1988 megahits, ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Theme From S-Express’
Crammed Discs: Measure of the Man
Crammed Discs’ avant-garde ‘Made To Measure’ series has recently reactivated to serve up reissued classics as well as new releases. We meet Crammed boss Marc Hollander and some of the Belgian label’s always idiosyncratic artistsÂ
Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘Esperanto’ (Wewantsounds)
With a title like ‘Esperanto’, you’d have expected Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1985 studio album to have been a universal……
Blue Pearl ‘Naked In The Rain’
Youth talks us through the making of Blue Pearl’s 1990 floorfiller, ‘Naked In The Rain’Â
Françoise Cactus
Anti-diva and all-round creative polymath, Stereo Total’s late Françoise Cactus caused something of a rumpus when, in 2004, she exhibited a life-size woollen sex doll… yup, you read that right
Faust: Freak Power
Faust produced four albums of head-spinning brilliance between 1971 and 1974. It might have been five if half the band hadn’t been carted off to jail...
Der Plan: We are the Robots
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…Â
Bashung ‘Play Blessures’ (Philips, 1982)
Alain Bashung is a tough enigma to crack.