Near Future
Atmospheric communications from pop’s fringes
Anna Meredith: Pest Control
From the classical pomp of The Proms to the thrilling pop of her new album ‘Varmints’, Anna Meredith is shaking up preconceptions about composers and turning ideas of what a songwriter is on its head
Steve Mason ‘Meet The Humans’ (Double Six)
Wildly talented Scot offer up acoustic licks… with a twist
Nina Walsh
Musician, producer, long-time Andrew Weatherall cohort, catering wiz, open mic troubadourette and all-round techno legend, Nina Walsh offers up her thoughts on the people, places and events that shaped her
Greg Wilson
We rewind to 1983 and find ourselves in a time when one record player seemed ample. And then along comes DJ godhead Greg Wilson and he’s live on the telly with two record players and they’re called “turntables”. Whatever next?
Pedram
Sheffield-shaped leftfield thrumming thrillers
Mmoths
Heartstring-tugging emotional electronica
Laptop ‘End Credits’
We all like a bit of 80s influenced shizz, right? Listen and learn from New York’s Laptop whose cool as cubes 90s debut EP ‘End Credits’ was quite the ear-catcher
The Woodleigh Research Facility ‘The Phoenix Suburb’ (Rotters Golf Club)
Sabres/Sabrettes dream team gang up again for a right old romp
Larry Gus ‘I Need New Eyes’ (DFA)
Oddbod composer from rural northern Greece serves up must-hear album